FOR NEARLY 40 YEARS Gordon Lightfoot has been the musician's musician. Few can match his success as a songwriter, recording artist, and performer. A professional singer in his native Canada while still in his teens, Lightfoot first gained fame in the early...

Byline: Stephanie Caltagirone Aug. 21--Gordon Lightfoot is a grand storyteller a master who's written some of the most enduring tales in folk history. On Friday night, he played to a loudly appreciative audience at the Sovereign Performing Arts Center who clapped...

Watching the action from the wings isn't in Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's blood.With the presidential campaign fully engaged _ and the U.S. Constitution barring the foreign-born movie star-turned-high-profile-politician from running himself _ Schwarzenegger is finding ways to play a role in politics' biggest drama.He elevated his...

Two Royal Air Force jets shadowed a Russian strategic bomber that approached British air space last week, the Ministry of Defense said Tuesday.The incident occurred Friday, the same day Russian President Vladimir Putin flexed his military's muscle by placing strategic bombers back on long-range patrol...

Is Gordon Lightfoot the best songwriter of modern times? He has written and recorded upwards of one hundred and fifty songs, of which at least ninety are not only "keepers" but demonstrably superior, in one way or another, to most of their contemporaries. I know of no one else who has lately produced such quality in such quantity. He's at it again in his just-released "Shadows" with eleven new ones, and ten of them are beauties as engrossing as they are elegantly structure...