Michael Bourne has off-broadway reviews from 'The Government Inspector' and 'Curvy Widow'. To hear the review, click the link above.

Author Rafi Kohan spent a year traveling all over the U.S. to give readers a detailed look at the lives of sports arenas. His new book The Arena: Inside the Tailgating, Ticket Scalping, Mascot-Racing, Dubiously Funded, and Possibly Haunted Monuments of American Sport is published by Liveright. Kohan talks to SportsJam host Doug Doyle about his fascination with fans and stadiums, as well as what he learned during his trips to places like Lambeau Field, Wrigley Field, Fenway Park, Beaver Stadium,

Think of summer and you think of escape. It’s built into the architecture. Hot sun, summer in the city, escape to the beach, escape to the Cape. And go to the movies to escape the escape. How about escape the cops? Traditional summer escape movies have crashed and burned by the dozens this summer. Maybe that’s because it’s gritty urban realism month in more adventurous movies, as we follow various and sundry characters—white bad boys, good black kids trying to mind their own business—trying like

Drummer Jerome Jennings was the featured artist at Saturday’s WBGO Kids Concert Series. “What I love about performing for kids is their honesty in terms of how they feel. They don’t withhold their feelings of whether they disagree, bored or tired,” said Jennings. Jennings, originally from Cleveland, Ohio graduated in 2004 from Rutgers University's Mason Gross School for the Performing Arts. Later on, Jennings became the first jazz studies recipient of the Morse Fellowship at the Juilliard School

Jazz House Kids is a grassroots jazz school for young people which has gained a reputation as one of the nation’s preeminent arts education and performance organizations. “We use jazz, America’s home grown music, as a teaching tool to develop who we are as people,” said Jazz House Kids founder Melissa Walker Jazz House Kids was created to provide young people with guidance and a positive influence while teaching them how to play and create music. “It’s a unique experience where there are all

Theater critic Michael Bourne heads back to Shakespeare in the Park for the latest production of "A Midsummer Night's Dream"

WBGO Journal commentator Mildred Antenor wonders why black women are so hostile to each other.

West Orange High School graduate and soccer star Bryce Millington is headed to the University of Chicago to major in pre-med and to play for the soccer team. Millington, a Write On Sports alum, returned to a WOS summer camp at Montclair State University to talk to the kids. The All State soccer player wants to be a doctor in the future, possibly a neurosurgeon.

Fado is rooted in Portugal. Its tales are vast, with the power to reduce people to tears. Nathalie Pires is the first American fado singer to tour internationally, and subject of a new short film, ‘Echoes of Fado’, from Newark based film makers Yuri and Igor Alves. “Fado translates to fate or destiny, and it’s important because it’s a form of therapy. There’s a fado for each kind of emotion that you’ve ever felt or lived through,” Pires said. “When I would perform in California or anywhere in

WBGO Theater critic Michael Bourne reviews Money Talks. The musical comedy is playing Off-Broadway.