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From provocative jazz compositions to charged hip-hop, music critic Charley Ruddell recommends albums from artists that are managing to pull experiences from within themselves in a post-pandemic world.

Dick Iacovello’s art doesn’t seem to fit into a specific category. He’s a painter, sure, but also a photographer, a mixed-media artist, and a natural storyteller. As with many artists, his work changes over time, and is based on the unique experiences of his life. In Iacovello’s art, though, there seems to be an immediacy […]

Guinevere Turner begins her memoir, “When the World Didn’t End,” with a punch: “On Jan. 5, 1975, the world was going to end. All the World People were going to be wiped off the face of the Earth, but not us, because a spaceship was going to come and take us to Venus, where we […]

Charles Giuliano's new book “Counterculture in Boston: 1968–1980s” makes a case for Boston’s cultural revolution that impacted the nation during an idyllic but restless moment in time.

Sing out: a program at the Academy Museum in Los Angeles showcases the many possibilities of concert movies—both as cinema and as performance—through a range of classics

Guinevere Turner, who wrote the script for "American Psycho" reveals in her new book, "When The World Didn't End," that she grew up in the notorious Lyman Family cult.

Who was Laurence Vail? And why did he have so many troubled children? - by Lisa Janssen

Talking with musician Jim Kweskin is a bit like getting a history lesson in Americana music. Kweskin founded the 1960s Jim Kweskin Jug Band with Fritz Richmond, Geoff Muldaur, Maria Muldaur, Mel Lyman, and Bruno Wolfe, and he’s a sort of connoisseur when it comes to the jug band genre. “I was a big fan […]

theres the stones drumming i just primitive beat as the human mob and it was just another manifestation of the rock drug slobbery cult in which he could say good riddance. and so i use this event in the book to -- cause i think it helps us to apprehend the powerful appeal of these underground newspapers for young readers in the 1960s. the tribe reporters lacked any objectivity and they had forcefully written opinions and they grew out of their subculture and the examiner was the flagsh...