For her Tiny Desk (home) concert, the Virginia-based guitarist keeps the background sparse (a rug, a folding table, curtains, a plank of wood) to foreground her inventive playing.

More than 200 Massachusetts musicians entered NPR’s Tiny Desk Contest this year. Here are some of the local entries that stood out.

Foreground (left to right): Verónica Rolón Acevedo (Choirs), Barba Blanca (Piano), ... Alexssa Hernández made Tiny Desk history as the series’ first sign language interpreter.

The folks behind ForGround café in Midtown are opening a 1,234-square-foot ground-floor café at 112 Hudson Street in Tribeca, Commercial Observer has learned. An 832-square-foot basement space will be ...