Lace Mill Art Exhibition: The Lace Mill’s March art exhibition, featuring Norwegian artist Anki King, the first international artist to be shown at the affordable housing complex’s art gallery, runs ...

The middle child in a family of musicians, Chicago-born Lonnie Plaxico inherited a gift for music that was discovered and nurtured early. By the age of twelve he had taught himself to play the ...

Arsenio Hall made his entrance as host and glanced quickly to his left. What — or rather who — he saw on stage delighted him. The camera switched to a shot of a suited Bill Cl ...

I grew up in a home where gospel music was always playing. My grandparents raised me in a small town outside Birmingham to the sound of The Caravans and Mighty Clouds of Joy. The music was like the ...

Alt-Rock Dept. is author Niko Stratis’ essay series about working at a grocery store in the mid-‘90s and the radio songs that filled every aisle and stockroom YOU CAN BE LOVED and find love anywhere, ...

I was YouTube surfing one afternoon when a scene from the 2003 film, “The School of Rock,” popped up on the screen. In the clip, guitarist Dewey Finn (played by Jack Black, co-founder of the rock band ...

This year’s Academy Awards looks set to be a good one. We’ve got one of the strongest Best Picture lineups in years, and many of the biggest categories are competitive, with only a few seeming locks ...

Music, live music especially, is one of the few places real community and joy can be found, so go find it.  Figure Eight / Spiderling / Yudai at Swan Dive - March 11, more info here East Forest at ...

After black midi’s split, all eyes went to frontman Geordie Greep and his eclectic impulses. I won’t knock Greep’s bag—his solo debut did splashy, head-spinning things—but I’ve always been more ...

In 2022, Megan Moroney introduced herself to the world with “Tennessee Orange,” a tender love song that detailed her romance with a blue-eyed Knoxville boy while nodding to her Georgia upbringing. Her ...

From an early age, Walter began taking music very seriously. “My first gig was playing at a McDonald's in Houston with another saxophone player. I took a solo on “Blue Bossa.” It was terrible. People ...