Spinal Tap’s Final Concert — at the Real Stonehenge!— Comes to Theaters

How fitting is it that this actual-probable-send-off is shot, historically, at Stonehenge, the mysterious landmark that we now know must have been erected thousands of years ago purely to serve as the ...
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Makaya McCraven, On The Record

The distinction between composition and improvisation has always been fraught territory in the discourse surrounding jazz; ...

Tap, tap, rap. The noises of woodpeckers ramp up in the fall in CT. Here’s why and what to do.

If you have heard a woodpecker pecking away at your gutter or home this fall, it may not mean you have insects in your wood. Connecticut is home to seven species of woodpeckers that live in forests, ...

‘I Busted Out My Rusty Ballet Moves and Swung From a Pole’

A cabby shares the secret to playing trumpet, an empty car on the F and more reader tales of New York City in this week’s ...