Ditching the Midwest for Southern California on the heels of a crushing divorce, the last thing Cheryl Jarvis wants is her 26-year old son for a roomie.
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The Cowboy Image and the Growth of Western Music
How did cowboy hats and boots become the visual iconography of American rural music?
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Creating While Clean
Musicians Steven Tyler, Ben Harper, Joe Walsh, and others speak with candor about their journeys to sobriety and how they are in much better places, personally and creatively.
Posted inArts & Culture, Nonfiction, Quote Posts, Quotes
The Making of Nirvana’s Most Vulnerable Album
An oral history of the night Nirvana recorded “Unplugged,” their most tender, original live performance.
Posted inArts & Culture, Culture, Essays & Criticism, Nonfiction, Story
A Long, Lonely Time
“It’s strange to think that the Righteous Brothers outlive my mother. Sometimes I pretend they are singing to her.”
Posted inBooks, Profiles & Interviews, Story
Falling in Love with Chicago at Night: An Interview with Jessica Hopper
In “Night Moves,” Jessica Hopper is 80% on her bike and 20% at a show, memorializing a young adulthood spent in just one of “a million Chicagos” — but one that shaped a wide network of artists and writers.
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Surviving False Dawns: On Joy Division and Life in a Far Distant Suburb
Growing up in what she calls “the bleak Sydney suburbs,” a depressed Australian teenager finds solace in Joy Division and her fellow music fans, which led her to the literature that shaped her as an adult ─ an adult for whom Joy Division and uncertainty continue to define her.
Posted inEditor's Pick, Essays & Criticism, Nonfiction
You’re Just Too Good to Be True
My on-again, off-again love affair with Engelbert Humperdinck.
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Cut From the Same Cloth
Artist Myfanwy Tristram was irritated by her teenage daughter’s extreme fashions — until she took an illustrated journey into their origins.
Posted inArts & Culture, Commentary, Culture, Current Events, Essays & Criticism, Highlight, Quotes
Lady Gaga, Celeb Profiles, and the Third Remake of “A Star is Born”
Rachel Syme profiles Lady Gaga and dives deep into the mystique and mythology of “A Star is Born.”
