Dear Reader, Bob Mehr’s piece on the HotHouse was an incredibly sad story [The Meter, September 22]. The catastrophic breakdown in communication between Horberg and her board means a creative exile for one of Chicago’s true treasures. No great culture exists without context. Horberg’s unyielding passion enriched many of our lives immeasurably by providing a […]
Author Archives: Stuart Rosenberg
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Ethnic City: music from the crossroads of Central Asia
The city of Bukhara is a florid oasis sitting at the crossroads on the dry and dusty steppe, midway between Iran, China, and Afghanistan. It was a main stop along the great Silk Road, which connected Europe to China. Textiles and spices were the stock in trade, but invariably merchants carried their favorite songs as […]
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Andrew Calhoun
Fifteen years after Goodman, Prine, and the whole rich scene that nurtured them peaked, the very notion of folk music is anathema to most, and a genuine mystery even to those who have been saddled with the designation. And yet, from time to time there arises from the folk-ooze of musical ambivalence and contradiction a […]