My favorite story about Thomas Pynchon, which may or may not be completely true: When Timothy Leary found himself in the hole at Sandstone Federal Prison, the defrocked Harvard doc asked a guard for ...

Her university’s vast collection of albums, scholarly essays and other ephemera helped establish rap as a course of serious study on a par with classical music.

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Seventy-five years ago today, Hank Snow topped the Billboard country chart for the first time with a career-making hit.

In 1950, Michigan was basking in its reputation as an industrial powerhouse. Detroit factories – retooled to mass-produce aircraft, tanks and other war materials during World War II – helped defeat ...

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AZ confirmed “Doe or Die III” to mark three decades since his debut, reigniting interest in one of Hip-Hop’s most respected lyricists. AZ stunned longtime Hip-Hop listeners on October 10 by announcing ...

Take a video tour of homes from our Listing of the Day series in Deephaven, Minnesota; Gypsum, Colorado; Oxfordshire, England; Peapack Gladstone Boro, New Jersey; and Falcon, Missouri. A Dow Jones ...

Dancing with the Stars' annual "Disney Night" tradition was celebrating two milestones as they honored 70 years of Disneyland and broke their own voting record once again -- it's happened every week ...

Shadow Ticket: A Novel, by Thomas Pynchon, Penguin Press, 293 pages, $30 My favorite story about Thomas Pynchon, which may or may not be completely true: When Timothy Leary found himself in the hole ...

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If you opened the Seattle Times on February 12, 1970, you might have lingered over John J. Reddin’s nostalgic “Faces of the City” column. That Thursday, Reddin published an ode to the city’s Asian ...