Critical Essay by Ray Coleman
This man is a venomous poet….
[With "The Stranger," Billy Joel] is now turning out albums showing an originality, bite, determination and poetic ...
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Critical Essay by Susan Elliott
It's time to find a new tag for Billy Joel. His first and biggest hit of three years ago, Piano Man, has left him with a reputation as the small, power-packed, ...
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Critical Essay by Peter Reilly
The title of Billy Joel's newest release, "The Stranger," may echo the Albert Camus novel, but once into it you soon discover that it is much more ...
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Country singer Billy Joe Shaver surrendered Tuesday after a weekend bar shooting that wounded a man, police said.Shaver turned himself in at the McLennan County jail in Waco and was released after ...
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Archaeologists in Mexico City announced plans Friday to hold tours of inaccessible buried ruins via glass-covered shafts looking down on the sites.Two daylong guided tours of the sites, known as "a...
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A retired California police officer was sentenced Tuesday to 35 years to life in prison for flashing a badge, ordering a teenage boy into his vehicle and sexually assaulting him.Shawn Michael Shelt...
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A retired California police officer was sentenced Tuesday to 35 years to life in prison for flashing a badge, ordering a teenage boy into his vehicle and sexually assaulting him.Shawn Michael Shelt...
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All the way back to shore after an 8-foot (2 1/2-meter) tiger shark chomped into his left leg, Harvey Miller thought he might die."I just remember saying, 'Oh God, not like this, no way,'" Miller s...
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An Iraqi television reporter who was kidnapped in Baghdad last week was freed Monday, his station said.Muntadhar al-Zaidi, a 28-year-old reporter for the Iraqi satellite channel al-Baghdadiyah, was...
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An effort being billed as a new sanctuary movement for immigrants is loosely based on a 1980s movement in which churches harbored Central American refugees fleeing wars in their home countries.As r...
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For those of us who care about Martha Graham, it’s been a bumpy ride.
I got on board in 1958, the year of Graham’s full-evening dance-drama Clytemnestra, the first work of hers I ever s...
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The legend was almost too good to be true. For decades, a mysterious figure dressed in black, his features cloaked by a wide-brimmed hat and scarf, crept into a churchyard to lay three roses and a ...
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Critical Essay by Ray Coleman
Shaver surrenders, is released
