A lot of rock vocalists from the UK and Ireland lose their native accents when they sing — and sound like they grew up in Des Moines. Was this an effort, starting back in the ’60s, to make themselves ...

My wife Eileen and I recently returned from a vacation to Alaska. Wonderful! To be precise, we watched a travel documentary on Alaska because that’s the only way we’d ever be able to afford a real vac...

If Christopher Greenleaf, the artistic advisor to La Grua Center’s Music Matters classical music series, advises that hearing a particular work for the first time is “a moving, sometimes shattering ex...

Does your Creative Jones ever wish you’d been around to be part of the once-plentiful New England arts colonies? Locally, there was the Old Lyme Arts Colony! The Mystic Arts Colony! And the arts colon...