Arts and Entertainment

When George Lucas' "American Graffiti" hit theaters in August 1973, its September 1962 setting seemed a long time gone. The coming-of-age movie evoked a time of lost innocence, before the…

If WJBR is going to go religious, it doesn't have to leave music behind. Even leaving aside gospel music, there are lots of songs about Jesus they could play. Granted,…

If you think our Georgia has problems, check out the country straddling Europe and Asia between the Black and Caspian seas. Americans have mostly forgotten, if they ever knew, that…

I think I found the perfect song for the moment. From Lou Reed's 1978 LP "Street Hassle." It was reportedly written about his ex-manager, Steve Katz, but it's an uncannily…

C'mon, everyone knows that's where he belongs. And everybody knows who I mean. Jimmie Rodgers wasn't long out of the railroad yards when he cut this disc in 1928 in…

Clarence Thomas takes more vacations than anyone I've ever heard of. Then again, if you can take unlimited luxury trips on someone else's dime, why not take 38 of them?…

Sixto Rodriguez, whose early '70s albums gained little attention in the U.S. but found an overseas audience that fueled a late-career revival, died in his hometown of Detroit this week…

Robbie Robertson, whose lead guitar and character-driven songs drove the influential music of The Band, died Wednesday, age 80. Though his compositions include he enduring rock standards "The Weight" and…

The Alabama dockside brawl was more like a pro rasslin' melee or a hockey donnybrook than a chopsocky flick, but neither the WWE nor the NHL have inspired a No.…

Who says irony is dead? Zoom, the San Jose-based company that became synonymous with remote work, has told its employees they have to return to the office at least two…

Marshall Crenshaw's eponymous debut LP arrived in 1982, a time when New Wave was petering out, but its spare, fresh updating of Buddy Holly's rockabilly sound won him critical attention.…

Some people in the media are pretending that the case against Donald Trump hinges on whether he believed what he was saying about the election being "stolen." Uh, no. You…