Columnist Tom Lubnau writes, "In 2014, a Russian sound engineer named Leonid Vorobyev decided to give himself an unusual 60th birthday present. Instead ...

On the evening of Feb. 4, 1932, an eager crowd gathered at the Hoyt Sherman Place auditorium for a recital of spirituals by a man whose bass-baritone voice was already […] ...

The world of Ro Reddick’s play feels a little too tightly sealed-in but is still full of charm.

Cantor Elena Zarkh immigrated to the U.S. from the former Soviet Union in 1979, settled in Los Angeles, earned acceptance to the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion and got ordained.

Country” Joe McDonald, a hippie rock star of the 1960s whose “I-Feel-Like-I’m-Fixin’-To-Die Rag” was a four-lettered rebuke to the Vietnam War that became an anthem for protesters and a highlight of ...

The sign of a good play is that it can ring out its truth through different eras and still seem utterly relevant to the ...

One of the starring acts at Woodstock, he and his band, the Fish, came out of the Bay Area’s psychedelic rock scene. He went ...

I arrived in Tallinn as a tourist and loved it so much that I became a local. All at once, Tallinn is modern and medieval, crowded and calm, urban and untouched. Let me show you how you can experience ...

Not the room where things happen There’s a song from the musical Hamilton that keeps running through my mind. “The Room Where It Happens”is a song about a mythical meeting place where political ...

Civil rights leader the Rev. Jesse L. Jackson is among the influential and noteworthy people who died in February.

As observers of Russian society, we believe this ambiguity in Russian public opinion gives President Vladimir Putin the cover to continue pushing hard for his goals in Ukraine. Yet at the same time, a ...

From David Bowie to Pink Floyd hits, these iconic songs have sparked a variety of rumors, some more far-fetched than others.