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In August and September, Headwaters Park seems to be a place where inaugural festivals that aim to become summer stalwarts get their auditions. On August 25, something tantalizing titled the […]

In 2016, Fort Wayne crossed a threshold from “almost cool” to “indisputably cool” when it was announced that The Flaming Lips would perform at the inaugural Middle Waves music festival. […]

When B.B. King died in 2015 at the age of 89, his musical immortality was assured thanks to dozens of albums and hours of video. No one expected his band […]

Jon Gordon Langseth Jr., alias Jonny Lang, was discovered in the late 1990s as part of a wave of blues guitar prodigies. In the late 1990s, we loved nothing so […]

With “Newsies,” Disney (which has proved it can do almost anything) turned a failed film into a hit Broadway musical. What’s more, “Newsies” is a hit Broadway musical about a […]

Jay Leno said he hasn’t touched a dime of his Tonight Show earnings. That’s a lot of dimes. Leno earned between $20 million and $30 million a year while hosting […]

Blues Traveler have gone through three distinct phases since the band formed in Princeton, New Jersey, in 1987: underground jam band, international rock success, and better-known jam band with a […]

Neil Hamburger is the most famous anti-comedian since Andy Kaufmann. In stand-up comedy, the aim of anti-comedy or anti-humor is to get the audience to question the whole joke-delivering endeavor: […]

This year’s Three Rivers Festival is the 50th annual edition, but executive director Jack Hammer has had to do the math over the phone with people that think he counted […]