La Jolla Playhouse’s world premiere musical digs deep into the experiences of Frederick Douglass and the freed Black slaves ...

JAY UNGAR: We were asked by Ken [Burns] to come to Brattleboro, Vermont, and record music for The Civil War series, and this would be a lot of the traditional, period music. And as it turns out ...

"There was always a civil war happening, and that’s part of the reason you don’t want to spend too much time in these bands," says Bruford. "Because there’s always something like that going on.

Anyway, now that I’ve proven my catty Hollywood sassy/savage bonafides, let’s transition to the real conversation we need to have. The best film of last year that wasn’t nominated for a goddamn thing: ...