By Gregory Crofton If Tanya Tucker doesn’t get a party started right, I’m not sure what will. The rowdy, hard-drinking 63-year-old country superstar has helped lead the way for women in the music business since she was thrown into it…
Wild Combination: A Portrait of Arthur Russell
“Wild Combination” (2008) is director Matt Wolf’s visually absorbing portrait of the seminal avant-garde composer, singer-songwriter, cellist, and disco producer Arthur Russell. Before his untimely death from AIDS in 1992, Arthur prolifically created music that spanned both pop and the…
I Sold The French Laundry. Then It Became ‘the Best Restaurant in the World’
By Ben Proudfoot When my father died, he held disappointment in his heart. He was 66 and had only just retired from a life of 80-hour workweeks as a successful lawyer, and this next chapter promised everything he had skimped…
Rocketland: A Hub for Dorks
SpaceX’s Starbase project has inspired fans from around the country to move to a small town in Texas just to live close to the facility. In April 2022, the Verge went down to Brownsville, Texas to meet some of Elon…
Kacey Musgraves Makes ‘Star-Crossed’ Album
Kacey Musgraves lets us into the creative process during the making of her latest album ‘star-crossed.’ It’s about heartbreak.
The Murder of Emmett Till
In August 1955, a 14-year-old Black boy allegedly flirted with a white woman in a grocery store in Money, Mississippi. Emmett Till, a teen from Chicago, didn’t understand that he had broken the unwritten laws of the Jim Crow South…