Fans were treated to a set featuring favorites from their album Morrison Hotel, including "Ship of Fools," "Land Ho!," "The ...

Rubber Soul, the last copy. My copy. After I paid the Walmart cashier a ten-spot, Rubber Soul crashed into me like a carom. Suddenly hackneyed pop was cool. Protest music was funny. Those ...

THE ROMANCE OF TRISTAN AND ISEULT—Joseph Bédier—Pantheon Books ($3.50). For more than a thousand years the legend of Tristan and Iseult has been one of the world’s best-loved love stories. Medieval ...

J.S. Gornael has a BA in English with a Creative Writing Emphasis in Poetry and an MFA in Fiction. He has taken workshops in poetry, fiction, and non-fiction (though mostly the second). Half-cinephile ...

All of that angst and frustration, however, will feel worth it after this statement Champions League performance from the ...

In a chaotic and distressing year, books provided a respite, a chance to commune with works of coherent voice and vision.

There were bigger and more famous British blues musicians, but few were as influential as the late Alexis Korner ...

To fully grasp the band Soul Coughing and their debut album, Ruby Vroom, whose mix of hip-hop beats, samples, jazz, and rock sounded wildly fresh in the early days of “alternative music,” it helps to ...

Many golf terms stretch back centuries, and contested origins are common. Here is a history of some of golf's most fundamental words. The post A brief history of golf’s most fundamental words: par, ...

From big-name acts to beloved indie artists, here are some of the best concerts to catch in Portland this season.

Laughing matters. It always has. But laughing may matter even more in modern times. Does anyone think that during the Middle Ages, or even in the late 19th century, ordinary citizens spent as much ...

Throughout the late 1950s, the UCSB student population increased and new buildings were quickly built on campus. Meanwhile, Isla Vista was working hard to ...