On 2000's "The Covers Record," Cat Power, the alias for singer-songwriter Chan Marshall, traded in the shambolic indie rock of her early career for a less-is-more aesthetic, playing nearly every song with a piano or guitar, unaccompanied. Read more...

Director, producer, screenwriter ... film preservationist? Read more...

While browsing through the fiction authors at Barnes & Noble this weekend, I came to the "Smiths." Next to Dodi Smith, author of "I Capture the Castle," a book I read solely because I had heard that J.K. Rowling liked it, was a book by Meta Smith. Read more...

He's ignored half of the time. Read more...

Disturbing is not a word generally associated with ballet, yet then again, the subject of most ballets is not war. Read more...

During his full-time school and work schedule, an all too familiar feeling overtook Joe Williams. Read more...

Electronics are like the stem cells of music. Read more...