Arts and Entertainment

Life, as we know, imitates "The Simpsons," which is why we got a Trump presidency. Even minor gags from long-ago episodes have come to pass: The U.S. won the Olympic…

Donald Trump is getting INCREASINGLY FRANTIC! as the clock winds down toward his deadline for posting bond as he appeals his fraud conviction. Before you read any story about it,…

Alex Melton is a South Carolina-based multi-instrumentalist who's made a name for himself on YouTube by making genre-twisting covers – country songs done as pop-punk and vice versa are his…

Guest post by Nathan Arizona Americans might have been puzzled by a recent Philadelphia Inquirer story about what Flyers’ hockey players want to hear on the song playlists that blast…

Trump's lawyers whined that nobody will accept his real estate as collateral for the half-a-billion-dollar bond he has to post by Monday. Letitia James said Trump's assets could be seized…

For all the similarities between the music markets in the U.S. and Britain, some acts just never cross over. For every David Bowie, embraced as a taste-setter in America, there's…

Popular Irish songs might sound ancient, but many aren't very old. "The Fields of Atheny," for example, is about the potato famine, but it was written in the 1970s. "Ragland…

A theme song for the gubernatorial race. No editorial comment intended. The Ink Spots, among the country's most popular vocal groups in the 1930s and '40s, had tremendous influence on…

An old anecdote tells of the student who went to see "Hamlet" and complained, "It's just a bunch of cliches strung together." Indeed, absent the Bard, would anyone refer to…

Rep. Ken Buck of Colorado is among the 23 Republican House members who announced they would not seek reelection this year, but yesterday he went them one better: He's not…

Eric Carmen, the frontman of seminal early '70s power pop band the Raspberries, died over the weekend at age 74. He gained greater fame in the '80s after he left…