At last year's Stranger Genius Awards party, after the awards were presented for Visual Art, Theater, Film, Literature, and Organization, there was music. Bands performed shunted to one corner of the ...

The pioneer who transformed movie sound passed away at his home in San Francisco. By Tim Appelo Dolby in his home workshop in 1982, during the early stages of Dolby Spectral Recording (SR). Born in ...

This year's 24 recipients of MacArthur Foundation "genius grants" include a physicist whose work was inspired in part by an NPR report he heard a decade ago. As Carl Haber of the Lawrence Berkeley ...