Songwriters representing all five of the compositions nominated for best original song at the 2025 Academy Awards got together virtually for a Songwriters Hall of Fame discussion that is premiering ...

For a while, I actually felt kind of embarrassed by this. I thought that somehow I was on a lower intellectual level than everyone else and maybe I just didn’t have that depth. Later on, when I got ...

Elizabeth Willis, since arriving on the University of Iowa campus a decade ago, has come to epitomize the iconic and esteemed ...

Robson's dad, Brian, wrote 'Little Girl' when Karen was a young child. After thinking the recording was lost, it has been ...

D ays before her 100th birthday on Feb. 10, Evelyn Baer, lifelong Prior Lake resident, was popping open a beer around 4 p.m. She had the bottle in one hand and a cheese sandwich in the other, with ...

John Densmore and Robby Krieger of the Doors discuss the band's 60th anniversary and the group's ongoing series of archival ...

This year, the world's biggest happiness study will see 30,000 volunteers try different joy-boosting activities, to find out ...

Call it the rise of the hyphen-comedy. This was the Marvel Cinematic Universe’s secret weapon: they were almost all pretty funny. Romcoms have grown rarer, but they’re still more common than ...

Focus on God and thank Him continually for the blessings in your life. Recently, while shopping at an arts and craft store, I ...

In “Colors: Stories and Poems in Different Shades,” the latest volume by Sam Lucy, the author opens a window onto his view of the world. For now the book, published in December, is available at the ...

Over a career that’s now in its seventh decade, Frederick Seidel has published nearly 20 notable collections of poetry—work ...

It's wrong to think of self-esteem as a quality that depends only on what we say and do. Self-congratulation is no substitute ...