If you’re a book lover, then you likely have at least one bookshelf in your house, filled to the brim with brand new books you haven’t read, plus the classics you might re-read, but just like to look ...

Inside a snug, spartan room at the Harold Washington Library Center, Shimon Marcucci had fine-tuned what probably amounted to several albums’ worth of music before I’d ever played a note there. For ...