Both light and sound travel as waves, with characteristics that allow people with typical vision and hearing to perceive and categorize them when they reach their eyes and ears: “That’s a small red ...

This article originally appeared in the December 1985 issue of SPIN. What is “new-age” music? Is it music that’s made for meditation, stress reduction, and massage? Or is it whatever California’s post ...

Roy Nathanson is most often identified as a jazz saxophonist, but he is also an actor, a teacher and a poet. When he plays on stage, he is frequently trying to combine all of those things into an ...