To make a music scene you need four things: cheap housing, recent art-school graduates, a stage where anyone can play and a small clique of young critics eager to discover a new subculture. As ...

Talking Heads came busting out of New York City in the 70s and delivered some of the most original music of the era. Their songs seemed beholden to little that came before them. They twitched and ...

“John Candy: I Like Me” opened the 50th Toronto International Film Festival this year. I attended the sold out screening and, while I was moved by the end of Colin Hanks’ documentary, I admitted in my ...

The inspiring talent of Olivia Colman, a woman with rare acting ability in both the comedic and dramatic realms, recently blessed audiences once again with the theatrical arrival of The Roses.

The Scapegoat, the dark thriller starring Andrew Scott and Sheridan Smith, has landed a new streaming home in the UK. Set in England in the 1950s, the television film follows Matthew Rhys as an ...

Does running for governor of California have anything to do with picking an effective leader with a proven track any more? If it did, former California Senate leader Toni Atkins might still be in the ...

Fresh out of college in the late 1950s and teaching at an inner-city high school in Philadelphia, Eileen Brown advocated relentlessly on behalf of Black students who were facing constant racist ...

Former Odessa Mayor Mike Atkins has died. A partner in Atkins, Hollmann, Jones, Peacock, Lewis and Lyon Inc. in Odessa, he specialized in corporate law and litigation. Atkins also served as the ...

Eileen A. (O'Connor) Lush, 84, passed away peacefully on October 6, 2025 surrounded by the love of her family at UMASS Memorial University Medical Center after a period of declining health. A calling ...

At the beginning of the summer 21-year-old Leo set out from the West Coast cycling across America with his best friend. After weeks of radio silence, no one is more surprised than his 91-year-old ...

Raymond Larry Atkins-age 76 of Maynardville passed away at home and entered his heavenly home Sunday, October 5, 2025. He was saved and baptized as a young boy and was a member of New Friendship ...