Two new renditions of Dylan’s “A Hard Rain’s a-Gonna Fall” memorialize the 80th anniversary of the Trinity test ...

By Amy Goodman & Denis Moynihan Nuclear weapons have not been used in war since 1945, although there have been close calls.

Kronos Quartet tap Iggy Pop, Stephin Merritt, Willie Nelson, Laurie Anderson & more to cover Dylan's "A Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall" Kronos Quartet are marking the 80th anniversary of the first nuclear ...

Ringo Starr, Willie Nelson, and Iggy Pop are among the many artists featured on new versions of the classic 1963 Bob Dylan protest song “A Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall.” ...

On July 16, 1945, the United States carried out the Trinity test, the world’s first nuclear detonation. Today, 80 years later, the University of Chicago — the site of the first self-sustaining nuclear ...

After two-and-a-half days of meetings in a mostly sunny midsummer Chicago, concerned Nobel Prize laureates and many of the world’s top experts on nuclear weapons spoke out on a dark subject: the high ...

The New York Times’s David Enrich discusses UnitedHealth’s tactics, from disappearing videos to legal threats.

The lineup includes bestselling author James Patterson, a blues concert presented by actor Morgan Freeman, and jazz with ...

Award-winning SF contemporary chamber group Ensemble for These Times (E4TT) has announced a second two-year Call for Scores ...

Here comes rhymin’ Simon. It’s not a phrase we would have imagined saying again, in the context of a concert tour, after Paul ...

El Cerrito’s Vietnamese musician and composer Van-Anh Vanessa Vo has worked with the Kronos Quartet, Yo-Yo Ma, the Oakland Symphony, numerous jazz artists, rap artists and others.

Experts warned at a panel discussion Wednesday that the threat of nuclear war is increasing — but unlike in years past, many ...