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The singer of "See You Again" trained as a jazz musician but was trapped in the pop machine. Finally, he's at home at the Blue Note.

The former Presidential candidate, once endorsed by Elon Musk, has been hosting phone-free parties. But can his guests actually stop looking at their screens?

"A bird sings and I don't know its name."

Diane DiMassa's "homicidal lesbian terrorist" was a star of underground comics in the nineties, but her "rage therapy" has lost none of its edge.

Jennifer Gonnerman reports on how two murders and a strike exposed a system at its breaking point.

But, offscreen, she's not even sure that she wants to be an actress.

A gust of fall.

Gustavo Dudamel conducts John Corigliano's blistering First Symphony, and Chuck Schumer faces a hostile crowd at the opening night of "Kavalier & Clay," Alex Ross writes.

"The white deer appeared on the road to his sister / As she returned from looking for him."

President Nixon got the brothers' variety show cancelled after they wouldn't let up on Vietnam. In the wake of the new late-night wars, Dick Smothers is having flashbacks.