Receiving a 2005 National Endowment for the Arts Jazz Masters Award isn’t something most people would be modest about ““ but Kenny Burrell, director of the Jazz Studies Program at UCLA, certainly is. Read more...

Tom Lenk has had plenty of success in the acting business as a costar on “Buffy the Vampire Slayer.” He’s also had plenty of support from fans, and, at one point in his career, he had freakishly skinny arms. Read more...

List-making season is nearing its end, with just about every music publication having weighed in now with its year-end best-of picks. (The major exception being the Pazz & Jop critic’s poll by the Village Voice, which never seems able to tabulate its votes until spring.) But despite this flood of information, it’s difficult to get an actual idea of which albums were heralded by critics as the Class of ’04. Read more...

FILM&TV: Mr. T He’s not just a legend. He’s an icon for anyone who grew up during the ’80s. And while many of us might think of him as just a gold-chained, mohawk-sporting muscle man, there’s a lot more to this muscle-clad action hero than meets the eye. Read more...

It goes without saying that a band’s lead singer embarking on a solo tour featuring acoustic covers of Morrissey songs could be labeled self-indulgent. But Colin Meloy doesn’t mind. Read more...

Last year around this time, dB Magazine published its first-ever year-in-review/guide to the new year. The memorable cover depicted two belly buttons, an innie and an outie, as a metaphor for the two states of being a pop culture icon can occupy as the arbitrary calendar rolls over another arbitrary year. Read more...

With the dramatic blow of radiating, hypnotic drawings, hungry souls will not go hungry. Vibrant, splintered lollipop shades radiate outward from a central vertical stripe and strike with a meditative power. Read more...