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Considering that his father's band performed immediately before Jimi Hendrix took the stage at the legendary Woodstock festival in 1969, it's not surprising Brian Witkin grew up dreaming of becoming a rock star.

This delicate peach hue is already getting quite a bit of cocktail attention.

50-year anniversaries: In the latest instalment of the series, Jim Comet selects what he believes are the 10 best albums of 1973. Feel free to give us your feedback on Jims choices 

Bunny Yeager, a Miami model and photographer, is best known for working with Bettie Page to transition from New York’s fetish pinup underworld and letting her shine as a naturally beautiful woman. But Yeager's archive, recently purchased and explored by the Grapefruit Moon Gallery in Minneapolis, shows that she was also a pioneer in the use of Black models—both African-American and Caribbean beauties. By publishing such photographs as early as the 1950s, she helped shake up the world of...

Players from different walks of life explain their love for the ‘king of instruments’

Players from different walks of life explain their love for the ‘king of instruments’

Descendants of the founders of Africa USA share how America’s first open-air wildlife park hatched and thrived—in Boca Raton, of all places.

Fossil fuel-hunting seismic survey ship Amazon Warrior entered Eastern Cape waters on Sunday, raising the local and global human temperature as protest action amassed all along the SA coast.

Southside Johnny returns with Tom Waits tribute album With the rerelease of the album "Grapefruit Moon," Southside Johnny adapts the songs of Tom Waits to a big band sound. Author: May 17, 2021 With the rerelease of the album "Grapefruit Moon," Southside Johnny adapts the songs of Tom Waits to a big band sound. By Ray Chelstowski I first caught Southside Johnny & the Asbury Jukes at Fairfield University in Connecticut during a fall break from college in 1983. Friends tell me that Marshall Cre...

Southside Johnny, La Bamba and the new rising of Grapefruit Moon: The Songs of Tom Waits Southside Johnny and Asbury Jukes at the Basie Center Drive-In Live concert Replay Video The “Grapefruit Moon” will rise again.  “Grapefruit Moon: The Songs of Tom Waits,” released in 2008 by Southside Johnny with La Bamba’s Big Band to critical acclaim, is going to have a new second phase, this time from Pacific Records. “Grapefruit Moon: The Songs of Tom Waits Remastered” is due digitally M...