7:00 p.m., Empty Bottle, 1035 N. Western, $10 more ›

Today in "Pencil This In:" a screening of Deliverance, $6 spaghetti, and more. more ›

With concert season in full swing, busy weeks are expected, but even with that in mind this week is a little hectic. Here's the short list of concerts we're trying to get to. more ›

For "Computers Come Alive!," their last concert of the season at the Harris Theater, new-music group Fulcrum Point will once again feature a new hip-hop-infused work by composer-in-residence Randall Woolf. more ›

Fulcrum Point and eighth blackbird, two leading ensembles of the Chicago new-music scene, will present multi-discipline, multi-genre concerts at the Harris Theater this week. To make it even more enticing, Wednesday's eighth blackbird show has cheap tickets available. more ›

After swinging through Africa and Iran, the next stop on our passport-less vacation takes us to Hong Kong, the home of the Windpipe Chinese Ensemble, which will be performing for the first time in North America this Thursday night at Northwestern University. The concert is a collaboration with Chicago-based Fulcrum Point to celebrate the Chinese New Year - the Year of the Tiger - which began on February 14. more ›

We've timed the walk between the Art Institute and the Harris Theater, and you can definitely attend both of these events. You'll even have enough time to grab a cup of coffee in between (unless you go to Intelligentsia, of course). more ›

Gottlieb Hall at the Merit School of Music, 38 S. Peoria, 7:30 p.m., $20-$40, $10 students more ›

New-music group Fulcrum Point will play a concert tomorrow night to preview their November 12 show at the Harris Theater. While, yes, it is to a large degree "only" a preview concert, the fact is sometimes watching a trailer is pretty cool. more ›

Chicago's snowballing new music scene won't let summer - the usual downtime for musicians - slow it down. Tonight is the premiere of Dusk Variations, a new series of four free contemporary music concerts at the Jay Pritzker Pavilion in Millennium Park. more ›

Now that we're waist-deep in a recession, concerts featuring contemporary classical music might be one of the first items to get slashed from your budget. Perhaps that's what the CSO had in mind last Thursday with their pre-concert reception. more ›