Todd Snider

"Even at the basic level, people don't treat this like a business," he said. Read More

"The Wisdom of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Reconsidered" (Steven Bahls, Augustana College president), Frieze Lecture Series, 2 p.m., Rock Island Library, 401 19th St. (309) 732-7323. Read More

"The number one symptom of heart disease is sudden death," for example, and "Some of this trouble just finds me / Most of this trouble I earned." Read More

Tony Award winners Chita Rivera and Leslie Uggams, as well as Tony nominees Martha Plimpton, Jeanine Tesori and singer-songwriter Nellie McKay are on the bill for Lincoln Center's 2010 American Songbook Series at the Allen Room. Music legend Marianne Faithfull, currently on tour with "Easy Come, Easy Go," will open the season at the Allen Room at 8:30 PM on Jan. 13, 2010. Read More

Moving (finally) into the upper-half of the list. Read More

With a U.S. tour, a book release, and appearances at festivals such as Austin City Limits and Hardly Strictly Bluegrass, Todd Snider certainly had a busy summer season of storytelling. Read More

Nov. 7 at the tiny Lafayette theater, which tends to host about as many rock concerts as a Christian Science reading room. Read More

SILVER CITY - So what does a journalist do when he has a few more furlough days? Read More

The variety of formats for experiencing music is huge — CDs, downloads, podcasts, a resurgence in vinyl, a plethora of concert DVDs — and, in the Aspen area, has just gotten bigger. Read More

Out on my apartment's splintery balcony, my cowboy boots are caked in a heaping mess of dried earth. Read More