Arts and Entertainment

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…

Iconic British actor Michael Caine announced yesterday on BBC Radio that, at 90 years old, he's retiring. “I keep saying I’m going to retire. Well, I am now. I’ve figured,…