At the Beethoven Halle und Garten, home to Southtown's year-round Oktoberfest atmosphere, summer Fridays make for a quaint scene as the bratwurst simmers, the drinks are iced and the crowd begins to ...

At one point in time, the relentlessly percolating bass lines of Hartmut Hillmann defied categorization. So Hillmann started referring to it as “urban folk funk." It did not go over well. “That ...