On August 29th, Cult New York-based band Frog announced THE COUNT, their seventh album, with the “BITTEN BY MY LOVE VAR. XI” single. The new record was ...

Sarah Hanahan was named the top rising alto sax star in Downbeat magazine's 2025 critics' poll. Saxophonist Sarah Hanahan will perform at SUNY Schenectady on Friday, Oct. 3. Saxophonist Sarah Hanahan, ...

As a high school student in Massachusetts, Sarah Hanahan didn't like her academic classes. In fact, she admits, "I just hated school. I always knew, like, 'I can't do this. This just isn't me.'" "It's ...

The shopping experience will include a variety of handmade goods, such as pottery and ceramic items and hand-woven pine ...

While I was playing “Careless Whisper” on piano, a guy with a saxophone joined in — and what followed was an unexpected but amazing live duet. The smooth sax, the nostalgic melody, and the spontaneous ...

She might be the most stylishly-dressed person in the room, often clad in gold from head to toe to match her trusted saxophone. But the five time Grammy-nominated Lakecia Benjamin is certainly the ...

“The Sopranos” creator David Chase almost passed on casting James Gandolfini in the lead role because the late actor didn’t seem “threatening enough” to play mob boss Tony Soprano. In an excerpt ...

The "Sopranos" creator was hesitant to cast the actor in the HBO series' lead role. In an excerpt published by Vulture of Jason Bailey’s book “Gandolfini: Jim, Tony, and the Life of a Legend,” ...

A new book about Gandolfini’s life unveiled the near-miss and Chase’s thought process behind the iconic casting. Reporter A new book on the life and career of James Gandolfini, the man best known for ...

“When he finally settled down and really did a reading, it was just obvious,” Chase recalled in an excerpt via Jason Bailey’s new book. By McKinley Franklin David Chase wasn’t initially sold on James ...

More than 25 years later, it seems impossible to imagine anyone other than James Gandolfini in the role of Tony Soprano. But The Sopranos creator David Chase was initially worried the actor wasn’t ...

This Q&A has been edited for length and clarity. At 16, Jeff Wade got a nickname that would become a brand. This was the ’80s, and the kids at Berkner High School in Richardson called him Skin, short ...