Arts and Entertainment

This year saw an odd trend in the agritainment business: Reba McEntire-themed corn mazes. Corn mazes are a seasonal money-maker for small farmers who market the farm along with its…

You can tell the '90s are having their day in the nostalgia-industrial complex – there's a new documentary out about Milli Vanilli, the dance-pop duo who had to give up…

So I was at a wedding a couple of weekends ago and – old fogey alert! – when the music started it was like a rave had broken out. The…

I don't want to make a big thing of it, but Joe Biden is the same age as Keith Richards, and nobody is telling the venerable guitarist to hang it…

For Andrew C, by request. The B-52s were scheduled to play a White House state dinner tonight but had their performance called off at the last minute. Jill Biden was…

Theme song for the endless search for a Speaker of the House. Tommy Conwell ruled the bar band circuit in Philadelphia and Delaware for a little while back in the…

Will Smith's spoof of the Freddy Krueger movies fits the Halloween season, but he's living a more substantial nightmare these days, what with all the publicity his apparently estranged wife…

For Gaza. Jimmy Cliff released this song as a single in 1972, the same year he starred in "The Harder They Come," the movie and soundtrack that made Jamaican music…

I thought Jan. 6, 2021, made clear what the MAGA Republicans wanted to do to Congress, so the current House fire is no great surprise. I blame voters for handing…

Americans might be forgiven for thinking British rock and roll began with the Beatles. The Merseybeat sound they represented seemed to grow from meager roots – skiffle, the craze that…

The media hasn't had time to remind you lately, what with a couple of wars and a couple of Trump trials and Republicans In Disarray Chapter XII, but Joe Biden…

Sly Stone, much to my surprise, is still alive. Now 80, he's released a memoir, titled after his No. 1 hit "Thank You ((Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin)," something I…

Rock is deep into its post-modern phase. How else to explain 78-year-old Mickey Dolenz, the last surviving Monkee, releasing an EP of R.E.M. covers? Well, maybe as time being a…