YouTube video by Rhythm andLife

In September 2010, I spent a good deal of time in Prague visiting places associated with Czech playwright, dissident and President Václav Havel – who would have been 90 today. Indeed, I was fortunate ...

YouTube video by James Elkington

Pope Leo XIV has warned that a "paradise of machines" could undermine humanity. He raises concerns about artificial intelligence, nuclear arms, and human rights during his visit to France.

Former Yes musician plays at sanctuary to raise awareness of animals that remain stuck in cages at ‘bile farms’

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These are the liner notes I wrote for the Rhino reissue of R.E.M.’s New Adventures in Hi-Fi in 2005. After more than a decade of gradually building an audience, it took only two glorious years to cata...

from the album Ever-Roving Eye

Ed Sheeran told the crowd at Lincoln Financial Field that what's happening in Gaza is “catastrophic and unjustifiable and disproportionate."

Burch talks with Byrne on the occasion of his novel, Meridian Rising (U of Georgia Press, 2025), about its subject, Jimmie Rodgers, and also Nashville, research, and making records.

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