Arts and Entertainment

Somebody put Woody Allen's "Hannah and Her Sisters" on the TV on Thanksgiving – the multi-year plot contains two big Thanksgiving scenes – and I got to hear the song…

I'll take any excuse for playing Graham Parker's blue-eyed soul, so here's one for Dr. Bethany Hall Long. From his 1976 debut album, "Howlin' Wind." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UbSh9AcCEn0 Parker released a new…

Just in case you're not feeling all that thankful today, Mary Gauthier's song about visiting prison on the holiday will remind you that some people have it much worse. Unlike…

Here's the proof that we're living in the most contentious times since the Civil War: Daryl Hall is suing John Oates. The lawsuit, filed in Nashville, is sealed, so we…

Bethany Hall Long's secrets don't seem all that secret at this point. She might as well face the music. The Afghan Whigs, the vehicle for frontman and songwriter Greg Dulli,…

Hard to believe it took this long, but it appears the George Santos saga is reaching its denouement. The guy who makes Donald Trump's lying seem timid seems to have…

A little bit of Friday funk for Ruth Briggs King, who quit the General Assembly this week, effective immediately, because she moved into a new home just outside the district…

I'll let you figure out who this song is dedicated to. I saw these guys when they made a radio station appearance at WSTW a decade or so ago. My…

So Bethany Hall-Long thinks she can brush her money troubles under the rug? Martha and the Vandellas have a message for her. Martha and the Vandellas took this Holland-Dozier-Holland banger…

Buffy Sainte-Marie has been in the news recently because a documentary has cast strong doubt on her claim to indigenous ancestry. She has long claimed she was born on a…

Another entry on my Greatest Songs by Women ballot, this was the hit that ushered in the '80s – in Great Britain, at least. It was the third single off…

We don't call it that any more, of course. Armistice Day honors the end of the war that was going to end all wars. After the peace failed, so did…