Highlights include the Big Texas Terror con, music from Chicago and Patti LaBelle and Contemporary Art Month openings.

A producer, recording engineer and sound mixer, he helped pioneer sampling in rap music, including on the influential album “The Low End Theory” by A Tribe Called Quest.

The actor Chadwick Boseman was a playwright, too. At Shakespeare’s Globe in London, his “Deep Azure” is drawing attention to a lost talent inspired by the Bard.

Singer-songwriter Robert Deeble told us about his appreciation for Don Falzone Suzanne Vega, and The Beatles... Robert Deeble: A line: I’ve never claimed to be a bassist—though there was one night in ...