Arts and Entertainment

Quincy Jones scored almost three dozen films, including "In the Heat of the Night," "The Italian Job" and "The Color Purple." The first of them came years after he wrote…

The late, great Quincy Jones was arguably overqualified to produce this No. 1 hit for 16-year-old Lesley Gore in 1963. He had already led his own 18-piece jazz band on…

Something that fits the mood of the day, because the middle section contains hope as well as grief. Chopin composed the funeral march two years before the rest of his…

The odds are against it, but thanks to the quirks of the Electoral College, if all the toss-up states break just the right way, the presidential race could come down…

WXPN's David Dye is so impatient for the election to be over he devoted an entire show yesterday to songs about waiting. I had completely forgotten about this one, which…

Two Monica Beard mailers landed in my mailbox yesterday. At first glance they seemed like duplicates, because both showed her against a pink background on the front, with a list…

Another song that sadly hasn't lost any relevance over the past 54 years. In early 1970 Norman Whitfield and Barrett Strong took a hard look at the wreckage of the…

Camille Saint-Saëns was one of the most famous and prolific composers of his day, and his serious works are part of the classical canon, but he's best known to the…

Joe Biden is getting grief for calling MAGAts "garbage," which I maintain was just him being polite. Garbage got its name when a friend used the term to describe the…

Stevie Nicks is everywhere the past few weeks, appearing on Saturday Night Live, releasing a new song about women's rights and, most recently, appearing on a CBS Sunday show to…

Phil Lesh, the Grateful Dead bassist who died last week at age 84, had never played the bass when Jerry Garcia asked him to join the band. But he had…

Peach season is long gone, but fall is prime time for apples and pumpkin pie. Though it wasn't the only chart appearance for Allentown, Pa.'s, Jay Proctor and the Techniques,…