In 2025 we said goodbye to many prominent figures spanning politics, the arts, the media, the civic arena and science.

Steve Cropper, the lean, soulful guitarist and songwriter who helped anchor the celebrated Memphis backing band Booker T. and ...

British playwright Tom Stoppard, a playful, probing dramatist who won an Academy Award for the screenplay for 1998's ...

Oscar-winning actor Gene Hackman and his wife, Betsy Arakawa, died in February, their passing initially shrouded in mystery.

Connie Francis, 87. The wholesome pop star’s 1950s and ’60s hits included “Pretty Little Baby” and “Who’s Sorry Now?” — the ...

This past year, we lost Pope Francis, actors Gene Hackman, Val Kilmer, Loretta Swit of MASH, Malcolm Jamal Warner from the ...

“Gig Euphoria” was the phrase one of my friends came up with to describe that giddy high feeling you experienced at the end of a gig. A lovely dopamine jolt to the brain. The culmination of that ...

From Rosalía’s glorious Lux to Tyler Childers’s alt-country Snipe Hunter, the year’s best music came from genre-hopping experiments and risk-taking collisions.

The deaths in 2025 that shocked the world from the pope and Charlie Kirk to iconic celebrities - From athletes to politicians ...

It was sad this year when Brian Wilson died. The same with Mani from the Stone Roses. And Mike Peters. And Ozzy Osbourne. And Marianne Fathfull. And Roberta ...

The Dallas Cowboys had fallen off the trail, but they've now absolutely nailed 12 of their last 15 first round picks.

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 ...