Local historian honors folk hero's centennial

Ron Cohen’s love of folk music began early when as a teen he listened to his older brother’s collection of folk music records, gaining an appreciation and respect for that music form and one artist in particular – Woody Guthrie.

TUNES & TIX: New Zealand newbie, Soviet kitsch

Earlier this year, the single-moniker New Zealand songsmith Kimbra was poised as the next big thing the pop music world needed to get to know.

Lake Central grad ‘Travelin’ back to region

Region-reared thesp, playwright and screenwriter Randy Noojin credits a casual visit to his Lake Central High School’s auditorium with setting him on his career path.

Reading heavy peace, hearing ragged glory?

Tunes & Tix “The weakness of an autobiography is the lack of perspective of the person whos writing it, so for that reason, I’ll never write an autobiography. Never,” Neil Young to biographer Jimmy McDonough, “Shakey,” 2002.

TUNES & TIX: Mike Watt, keeper of the indie flame

Customarily, it takes at least a decade of hindsight for the contributions of music icons to be singled out for praise and to receive props from subsequent generations of rock and pop movers and shakers.