The great Norse warriors not only believed in the afterlife, but saw it as their duty to help the deceased get there, with ...

Harvey talks about her day job as a grief therapist and embalmer and how she channels that work into her music and songwriting with her new band, Violent Hour.

In response to youth suicides, teachers show students the power of headbanging at Fire in the Mountains festival.

Heretic, debater, wife-snatcher, subject of a posthumous cult: Pico della Mirandola certainly had a wild career. In this smart and rangy book, Wilson-Lee, a Cambridge don, paints a glorious portrait ...

Actors often transform into real-life musicians for biopics. Some actors go through physical transformations to play musicians. Many, like Jeremy Allen White and Angelina Jolie, employ coaches to nail ...

"I once had a customer at Macy’s who tried to pay for her purchase with a Target gift card. She yelled at me for not accepting it." ...

Music from the '60s and '70s wasn't just about catchy tunes and groovy beats. Many legendary songs carried secret messages, political statements, and hidden stories that listeners might have missed on ...

Film festivals are a bran tub: what you find in them may be unexpected, and not always in a good way. Here are six I pulled out in my first week (minus one of my favourites, The Mastermind, which I ...

Salem Cemetery, vast and a little mysterious, is the final resting place of many of the city’s best-known families.

In 1935, in the depths of the Great Depression, the U.S. Congress passed what’s sometimes called the “Second New Deal.” It ...

Lewis Capaldi confronts one of the 'lowest' moments of his life on 'The Day That I Die,' the emotional closer form his new ...