Julie London

Six nights ago, 16.6 million people – more than half of those in Britain watching TV at the time – turned their sets to ITV1 to watch three 18-year-olds battle for their places on The X Factor . Read More

Come to the Skokie Theatre November 21st. Read More

Nia with Matt, 5:30 p.m. Tues. $10; first class free; $100 for 12 classes. 488-6065 / Oldies and doo-wop music. 7 p.m. Read More

Robin Mazey and Maureen Young read a lifetime of correspondence between two characters. Read More

With a big band vocalist for a mother and a trumpeter for a father, singer Amanda Carr - who launches her latest CD, "Common Thread," with two shows at Boston's Scullers Jazz Club on Oct. 15 - was surrounded by jazz music her whole life, but she says it took a personal tragedy when she was 29 for the sounds of her childhood to become the music of her life. Read More

On her stunning third recording, Obsession, to be released by Motema Music on August 11, vocalist Tessa Souter (soo-ter), born of Trinidadian and English parents, presents a multicultural banquet, that reflects her own conjoined African, Indian, Caribbean, and English bloodlines, as well as her American present. Read More