Arts and Entertainment

Steve Cropper, who died Dec. 3 at 84, did as much as anyone to make Stax a soul powerhouse in the '60s – playing guitar in the house band, Booker…

Guest post by Nathan Arizona Two Englishmen sail west across the Atlantic and finally spy “the capes of Delaware.” They have a big job ahead. As this Mark Knopfler song…

Things are so bad in this country that even the wildlife is getting hammered. A liquor store in Virginia was ransacked by a raccoon that was found passed out drunk…

Alina Habba, the pride of Widener Law School, has been disqualified as U.S. Attorney for New Jersey after an appeals court has ruled that the Trump administration's ploy for appointing…

Trump's rapid unraveling is getting hard to ignore, but I'm not seeing many stories about the man-child rage-tweeting into the wee hours to spout ever-more-incredulous fabblegab. My personal favorite: in…

The march of development can seem unstoppable, especially in eastern Sussex County. Most protests about it take the form of debates about traffic impact and emergency response times, but sometimes…

Guest post by Nathan Arizona In his new PBS series about the American Revolution, Ken Burns doesn’t pull any punches when he describes many of the people who supported or…

Jesse Welles might seem like an overnight sensation, but like most overnight sensations it took him more than a decade to get to the big night. Now he's there, capturing…

Finding stuff to feel thankful for might be more difficult than usual this year, but you can take some inspiration from Alex Chilton, who wrote "Thank You Friends" for Big…

Some years you just can't get into the holiday spirit. Darrell Scott knows just how that feels, and he wrote a song about it that appeared on his 2010 album…

Jimmy Cliff, who died last week at 81, did more than anyone outside Bob Marley to popularize the music of Jamaica, and not just with his songs. His fame came…