Arts

Robert Walker was first disc jockey to play the band's breakthrough single "Get Down Tonight" on the radio.

Brian Sonia-Wallace on Sunday wrapped up his stint as the Mall of America's first ever artist-in-residence. He wrote about a variety of topics, from chickens and family relationships to spirituality and Dippin' Dots.

Chris Koza brings his professional guitar skills to bear in the current production at Jungle Theater.

Officials say actress Carrie Fisher died from sleep apnea and a combination of other factors, but they could not conclusively determine what caused her death.

In his new book, journalist Tom Ricks explains how the conservative British politician and the leftist author of 1984 challenged their respective political parties.

A roundup of some of the most popular, but completely untrue, headlines of the week.

What could this mean for the city?

D.A. Pennebaker's acclaimed documentary "Monterey Pop" will be screened this weekend at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis.

Some thought Colin Trevorrow wouldn't want to finish an independent film after he was hired to make "Jurassic World." But the story of "The Book of Henry" lured him back.

While the love story in Allegra Goodman's latest novel can seem formulaic, she captures the allure of video gaming and the tension between real-world art and literature and the fantasy worlds online.

In the penultimate episode for season three of 'Fargo,' all of V.M. Varga's carefully plotted plans begin to come under fire.

The clash between science and religious belief lies at the heart of Sarah Perry's new novel, set in a marshy, windswept English town menaced by a serpentine monster that may or may not truly exist.

Pokey LaFarge, who lives in St. Louis, wrote the song in response to the riots in Ferguson, Mo., after Michael Brown was killed by a police officer. He says "the song started getting written about Ferguson, but it is overall touching on a national issue."

This week on Art Hounds: Raw Sugar presents "The Funny," Ken McCullough reads poetry in Plainview, and "Wali" celebrates traditional African drumming and dance.

By turns funny, shocking and heartbreaking, Everett's new novel follows a painter who's deeply ambivalent about his apparently idyllic life and digs into the moments in his past that shaped him.

F. Scott Fitzgerald once declared that using an exclamation point was like laughing at your own joke, but linguist Geoff Nunberg begs to differ. He has begun embracing the mark in his own writing.

Redding's version is about a man who works all day to support his family and all he wants when he comes home is the respect of his woman.

"Beartown" ponders "the things that we let successful people get away with, just because they are important to us."

In his new book, John T. Edge writes that food plays a central role in Southern identity, but African-American and immigrant cooks have often been left out of the stories the South tells about itself.

David Weigel is primarily a political reporter, but in "The Show that Never Ends" he spins his love of prog rock into a detailed, affectionate history of a genre that's never completely gone away.