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Solas on Stage Over the past dozen years the Irish/Irish-American band Solas has established itself as among the crème de la crème of Celtic...

If only Yahoo has news, will only yahoos read it? The news about the news is blue—newspapers are folding like origami and even venerable tom...

I hadn’t realized how bad the economy had gotten until I saw a headline from the newspaper from my old hometown in Pennsylvania announcing t...

Lars Prefers to Smell of Durian to the Stench of Abba! Some of my friends are headed to a sing-along screening of Momma Mia tonight. I’ll b...

CHUCK BRODSKY Two Sets Waterbug 84 Chuck Brodsky has been a folk circuit mainstay for nearly two decades, his work has inspired luminaries s...

Manny the Role Model? At first I was inclined to dismiss the revelations in Joe Torre’s book that Alex Rodriquez has a Single-White-Female...

In the mid-1980s I was driving through the British Midlands—the Birmingham, Leeds, Liverpool, Manchester postindustrial wasteland of public ...