Rita Christopher

Ed Strait: In the Weeds Ed Strait is in the weeds. Oh please, not that kind of weeds.

There is perhaps no disaster more emblematic of the 21st century than losing one's cell phone.

It is one thing to say something. It is an entirely different challenge to have what you say listened to and respected.

James Paisley doesn't have to rely on the natural world to see that the seasons are changing.

Name the instrument that Bob Lee plays. It's very tall, it's very thin, and it's got four strings. Now what is it? Why, an electric bass—that's what.

The Ides of March. Come on now, what happened? You remember—it was not Julius Caesar's lucky day. On the Ides, March 15, 44 B.C., a group of Roman aristocrats assassinated the Roman general.

Like father, like son—and like grandson, too. That's how it went in the Wiggins family of artists, and that is the story Amy Kurtz Lansing, curator

How do you celebrate America's 250th anniversary if you are a singer? For Chris Shepard, the answer is simple: sing.

John Lampe yearned to play the flute. His parents were unenthusiastic. “I wanted to play it in the worst way,” he recalls. “The flute was like singing.”

Some 4,820 miles separate Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, population 6.8 million, from Chester, CT, population approximately 3,800.