Arts and Entertainment

The joke certainly was on Robin Gibb -- he had the best voice in the group but older brother Barry had the good looks, and their conflicting ideas about who…

Author Larry McMurtry, who gained his greatest fame for his screenplay work in film and television, died last week. His musical legacy is his son James, who has carved out…

The Republican war on trans people put me in mind of this old Johnny Cash song. Recorded live at San Quentin State Prison, the novelty tune was written and recorded…

Among the songs the Library of Congress added to its National Recording Registry last week is Louis Armstrong's first recording of "When the Saints Go Marching In," the gospel spiritual…

The National Recording Registry announced this year's additions, ranging from a recording Thomas Edison made on a piece of tinfoil in 1878 to Kermit the Frog's "Rainbow Connection." The headline…

I'm as anti-insurrection as the next guy, but I think the feds may be overreaching in the case of Sara Carpenter, 51, of Queens, who was arrested for entering the…

When Rolling Stone magazine recalculated its 500 greatest albums list last year, giving greater weight to musicians' opinions and less to the critics, a new No. 1 emerged -- Marvin…

The other day I saw a list of LPs released in 1971, and the phrase "embarrassment of riches" barely scratches the surface. None of them got spun as often among…

The worst part of the story about the Biden White House firing staffers who admitted to past marijuana use is the fact that they were told such admissions would not…

When a U.S. Customs official detained then-Brit Graham Nash as he tried to enter the country, he wrote "Immigration Man." Nash was ticked off because he wasn't given a reason…

Sure, celebrating St. Paddy's Day by partying is an American invention, but so is an important element of this traditional Irish outlaw ballad. The song was popularized by a Clancy…