Europe, or at least its northern bit, is the land that cash forgot. In Norway and Sweden coins and notes are vanishing into ...

Julie Andrews knows how important it is to start at the very beginning. So that's the very good place she starts in new children's book "The First Notes: The Story of Do, Re, Mi" (Little, Brown, 48 pp ...

When you purchase an independently reviewed book through our site, we earn an affiliate commission. For a critic, there’s maybe nothing so central but also confounding as the question of taste — why ...

Movies have a way of making us laugh, cry, or hold our breath in suspense. Music is a big part of why this happens. A soft ...

How do you pick 20 songs that define an era — that represent a sound that means so much to so many people? It’s not easy, but the first thing that comes to mind is “emotion.” The Philadelphia Sound, ...

Other commercial styles, such as Drum and Bass, often treat the kick/bass relationship a little bit differently. Many drum ...

Cowbirds are special among songbirds for the "watery" timbre of their singing, which resembles the sound of falling droplets striking water, a quick burst followed by a fading ripple. Subscribe to our ...

INDIANAPOLIS, March 26, 2023 — In chemistry, we have He, Fe and Ca — but what about do, re and mi? Hauntingly beautiful melodies aren’t the first things that come to mind when looking at the periodic ...

While “Barbie” and “Oppenheimer” opened with record numbers in July, another sleeper hit quietly dominated the box office. The “Sound of Freedom,” a thriller about a former Homeland Security agent ...

When this AirPods era began, I too was drawn into the idea of a tangle-free life despite everyone initially looking like ...