Iain Forrest was passionately performing for evening rush commuters at the Herald Square subway station when a woman came up behind him and smacked him in the back of his head with his water bottle.

For her latest album, "Salt," cellist Maya Beiser draws an arc of female longing and defiance through the centuries. (SOUNDBITE OF SONG, "SALT") HELGA DAVIS: (Singing) Mourn for my girls who would ...

Subway cellist attack victim Iain Forrest has formed a new subway performers advocacy group, SPAG. The subway cellist who was attacked out of the blue when a woman threw a metal water bottle at his ...

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Of the many stories she learned as a child, one haunted Maya Beiser for months, and eventually years and decades: the sorry fate of Lot's wife. The woman, unnamed in the biblical tale, is turned into ...

Subway busker Iain Forrest, who made headlines last year when he was viciously attacked by an unhinged stranger in a caught-on-camera beatdown at the Herald Square station, has taken his talent from ...

This is the third article in a four-part, weekly series in which RedEye profiles Chicago artists who are going old-school by creating unique sounds with instruments often left out of contemporary ...