For the first time since its founding in Italy three decades ago, Terra Madre, the global sustainable food movement created ...

When it came time to commission a new pop song for her bittersweet romance Materialists, Celine Song had a simple guideline for prospective songwriters: Make it like John Prine’s “In Spite of ...

Roughly between the Song Dynasty years of 1174 AD to 1189 AD there were little-known accounts of ferocious tattooed bandits that terrorized the south-eastern shores and islands of China. As the Song ...

Alfie, a 16 1/2-year-old Visayan warty pig, was euthanized at the Erie Zoo due to declining health from severe osteoarthritis. Alfie surpassed the average life expectancy for his species and received ...

TikTok often popularizes songs from music’s biggest and buzziest artists. But one of the most viral songs right now was recorded in 1961. More than six decades ago, singer Connie Francis recorded ...

In The Number Ones, I'm reviewing every single #1 single in the history of the Billboard Hot 100, starting with the chart's beginning, in 1958, and working my way up into the present. Book Bonus Beat: ...

You'll hear My Old Kentucky Home sung at Churchill Downs as you usually do before the Kentucky Derby, but did you know that the Kentucky state song is actually controversial? You will now. The ...

The buzzy New York DIY duo Um, Jennifer? make slippery-slack indie rock songs about transness, and they refer to their genre as “slut-rock.” They’ll release their full-length debut Um Comma Jennifer ...

For Old Dominion, just getting through Wednesday night's show was a win. The country band has a rocky history with RodeoHouston. Two days before what was supposed to be their first RodeoHouston in ...

The Lumineers return to No. 1 on Billboard’s Alternative Airplay chart as “Same Old Song” rises a spot to the top of the March 15-dated tally. “Same Old Song” is the duo’s sixth No. 1 and first since ...

THE ROMANCE OF TRISTAN AND ISEULT—Joseph Bédier—Pantheon Books ($3.50). For more than a thousand years the legend of Tristan and Iseult has been one of the world’s best-loved love stories. Medieval ...

Diego Pineda has been a devout storyteller his whole life. He has self-published a fantasy novel and a book of short stories, and is actively working on publishing his second novel. A lifelong fan of ...