Bettye LaVette

Pop trio Wilson Phillips, soul singer Bettye LaVette and reunited roots rockers the Mavericks are among the acts set to play the Minnesota State Fair's free stages. Read More

"Where have you reached me?" says arranger Rob Mathes, repeating the question posed to him. Read More

Dominique Serrand, one of the leading lights of the late Theatre de la Jeune Lune, directs this concoction for his new troupe, the Moving Company. Read More

"Where have you reached me?" says arranger Rob Mathes, repeating the question posed to him. Read More

In the annals of soul music history, there are a handful of recording artists whose relatively short-lived careers give rise to the stuff of legends. Read More

Friday 7 p.m. Countryside Christian Church, 1850 McMullen-Booth Road, Clearwater. $20 and up. (727) 799-1618. Read More

Alabama Shakes are one of the most buzzed-about bands up and coming this spring. Read More

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In Sherman Alexies 1995 novel Reservation Blues , a bedeviled black man named Robert Johnson, dressed in a brown suit with a scuffed-up guitar slung over his shoulder, shows up mysteriously on the contemporary Spokane Indian Reservation, where he abandons his possessed six-string and heads into the mountains to be healed by the spiritual doctor. Read More