Hot Tamale Baby

by B.J. Huchtemann

Tab Benoit mixes sweaty blues with his Cajun and Zydeco folk heritage for a rockin’ sound that is as steamy as the Louisiana swamps and irresistibly danceable. He heats up The 21st Saloon Thursday, March 8, 5:30-8:30 p.m. Benoit is a Grammy nominee and multiple Blues Music Award winner, including the B.B. King Entertainer of the Year Award. He was also recently recognized with three awards including Best Blues...

 

Abnormal Normal Life

by Ryan Syrek

In a stunning turn of events, a woman has written and directed a film about women in which the lead character is a woman who actually acts like a real woman. Flying in the face of Hollywood logic that demands that only those with external genitalia should be responsible for creating films about those without, Return is a deft, nuanced exploration of a wife and mother at war.

Well, technically, writer/director...

 

Bird Watching

by Mary Day

Joseph Broghammer’s species of birds now roosting at Anderson O’Brien Gallery in the Old Market might challenge any Ornithologist studying bird behavior. Not perched for flight, including those with wings outstretched, these birds have made their claim.

They each occupy a large amount of space. As protagonists in the depiction of the human condition they are linked to Chicago Imagism which had its beginnings in...

 

Pick: Scott H. Biram

by Chris Aponick

March 13

G. Love & Special Sauce w/ Scott H. Biram

The Slowdown, 729 N. 14th St.

8 p.m., $20 advance/$25 day-of-show, onepercentproductions.com

Scott H. Biram may not be the headliner of this show, but his 2011 album Bad Ingredients certainly bears the marks of a talent worthy of headlining bigger stages. And the best part is Texan does it all on his own, playing bare-bones blasts of bluesy guitar and...