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Casting the annual ballot for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and paying tribute to poster artist extraordinaire Bill Narum

Talking turkey with James McMurtry

Remembering blues drummer 'Uncle' John Turner, tracking the devil and Daniel Johnston, on-air with Seattle's KEXP, Abandoned Love Records, and more

Healing power

When most of us see younger versions of ourselves in pictures or home movies, it's in the privacy of our own home in the company of friends and loved ones. For Shelby Knox, some of those images will be seen across the nation, in prime time, when 'The Education of Shelby Knox' launches the 18th season of the 'POV' documentary series on PBS.

Hoping to cash in on the Who Wants To Be a Millionaire craze, networks are developing game shows with increasingly ridiculous premises.

That holiday spirit getting to be too much? Here's a look at Vegging Television: what you watch when you can't watch anything.

Now that there's a resurgence in prime-time game shows: How about the return of live TV? Also, Suddenly Susan is put on the shelf, VH1 adds seven new shows, and millennium specials go on. And on.

José Guadalupe Posada

The millennial Midas brings reggaeton and Mexican regional to Sixth Street and beyond

Writing is not what I live for, it’s how I live

COVID-19 extends into all realities of Austin's pervasive inequality

Five trending Austin-hatched acts that sidestepped recording’s biggest pitfall

Give me your poor, your tired, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free

Quiet Company high priest Taylor Muse still has faith all right. It's called trust.

Monsters of Folk drummer Will Johnson continues demonstrating monstrous musical and compositional gifts

Neil Young's new 'Prairie Wind' howls for the decades

Too-often regarded as dull compilations of dusty facts, biographies are rarely bestsellers, Amanda Eyre Ward writes. But Amanda Foreman's Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire reads like a racy novel, complete with enough rocky relationships, torrid trysts, and illegitimate childbirths to keep Jerry Springer in business for weeks.

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Really bad TV deserves really bad haiku.

Oliver Stone has achieved the impossible: He's made the life of Alexander the Great seem boring.