"This album means so much to me—it’s like Bob Marley’s Exodus or Marvin Gaye’s What’s Going On."

Highlights from the 20th Annual Independent and Small Press Book Fair.

Unlike their pop counterparts, the city’s jazz haunts don’t take a breather for Thanksgiving. (The following all had tickets available at press time.)

Poetry enjoys a rare moment in the spotlight.

If anything indicates that online is the new cable, it’s the proliferation of video sites producing consistent niche content.

Surely most of your friends aren’t natural-born master-logisticians. Here, ideas for the festivities they’ll be planning for you in the months to come.

Election-Day events—marking the transition into the actual 2008 Election Year.

A pair of great pre-Halloween events, one for each side of your brain.

We asked three music obsessives to pick a recent album they can’t stop listening to.

If you’re looking to explore a new scene, skip the madness of CMJ in favor of a bawdy burlesque show.