Smith, right now, is “so excited that we need a new word for excited”. Her third album, What Are the Odds?, has been finished for months, and she’s waiting for it to come out; her pure ebullience is ...

Marion Brown made his name as an alto saxophonist aftermastering clarinet and oboe, and established himself in theforefront of the free jazz movement. Born in Atlanta, on Sept. 8, 1931, he moved to ...

Looser capital requirements from American regulators are yet to be confirmed but some lenders may race ahead anyway, ...

Our editorial staff picks the best songs from a year that's starting to be swarmed with big hits by big artists. The turnover at the top of the Billboard Hot 100 this year has really been something to ...

Pairing the classically inclined pop star with the “American Idol”-launched EGOT winner Jennifer Hudson might seem to be a mismatch at first blush, though they both have big voices and Broadway ...

Hopes for a gentle off-ramp to the U.S.-Iran war were always a bit optimistic despite last week's release of a memorandum of understanding, and fresh threats over the weekend suggest there could be ...

If you want to understand Mel Brooks, and I mean really understand him, a good place to start is with Nikolai Gogol’s unfinished masterpiece Dead Souls. This is the 1842 novel that Brooks, at his most ...

Exclusive: From Wimbledon wunderkind to Wandsworth jailbird, German tennis legend opens up on life behind bars and rebuilding his career ...

SHE ARRIVES RIGHT AT SIX in a variation on her standard uniform these days—beat-up black Doc Martens, a bluish-gray silk babydoll dress, black Ray-Bans, a blue Chateau Marmont cap—and grins as she ...