Baseball's first female announcer was a Chicago weather anchor hired away by the infamous Charlie Finley to do color for his terrible Athletics team. It was a stunt, but Mary Shane, the White Sox announcer who followed her, brought a deep love of the game to her brief stint in the booth. Read more
On your agenda: The Hyde Park Jazz festival keeps history alive… The choreographer Kato Yamazaki blends Butoh and African dance … free “water music”… plus, the weekend plans of the conductor Mei-Ann Chen Read more