Entertainment
A virtue that produces peace
The emails started coming in on Wednesday, March 11; events canceled and venues closed. There were more emails on Thursday, and by Friday it...
Twang redefined
You know who you are. You are America’s sect of young bluegrass devotees. I’m not saying you’re a hipster or anything, just that you...
Jackie Greene is a rock star
It’s easy to picture the life of a hard working musician — playing late into the night, touring long cross-country miles on a bus, lugging...
Terrifying tower of electronic tones
Every time Simon Posford rolls into town, two things are...
Solid cast helps ‘2012’ overcome flaws
Nothing like a dandy evening's apocalypse to take the edge...
Everybody’s talking
How do you measure happiness? That’s the question Cara Cruickshank wants to explore with the latest installment of her long-running immersive art project dubbed...
God’s lonely men
For most, Taxi Driver is summed up by one of the most famous lines in cinema: “You talking to me?” Conveying masculinity and bravado, it readies angry men for battle. But it is misleading. It is an act, a façade. The truth is found in the line that follows: “Well, I’...
The Phil Collins effect
Roger Sellers is at his parents’ house in Houston when he answers my call. He’s back stateside after a whirlwind run of dates in...
Steve Earle on being here now
When Steve Earle looks in the mirror, he doesn’t see his bald head, his graying beard or his 62-year-old body. No, when the country...
Actor Robert Culp, ‘I Spy’ co-star, 79, dies after fall
LOS ANGELES — Robert Culp, the veteran actor best known for starring with Bill Cosby...
Cultivating communities of care
In this world, there are winners and there are losers. It’s survival of the fittest, and only the strongest survive. By this point in...
Westerns, whiskey and ‘Little Silver Hearts’
Similar to the rule that says you have to kiss under mistletoe, legend has long had it that if you go to a Lucero...
