Over the past 50 years, U.S. pop music lyrics have become simpler, more repetitive, and increasingly focused on stress and negative emotions.

The first time I heard Rahsaan Roland Kirk was in the winter of 1972. A friend was playing his newly-released record titled Blacknuss. It was a ...

Gene Hackman, a two-time Oscar winner whose storied acting career included “The French Connection” and “Unforgiven”, was ...