Southern states celebrating "America's music" should remember the direct line between our original sin & the blues

Special Dead People Edition!

Salon's TV picks for Weekend, May 18-20, 2001

A full-tilt, pulse-pounding Iraq-war movie; deep thoughts from Jack Handey; a site for old Suck fans and more.

Has the R&B star's behavior clouded the way we understand his music?

The music supervisor for "Black Snake Moan" talks the blues.

Elvis helped cement a lyrical tradition where food stands in for everything from sex to rural nostalgia

Three chords, 12 bars or just one note -- two Vanguard collections promise the essence of the blues.

The actor said he didn't want "trust fund kids"

An in-depth look at such notable duds as the oral history of typewriters and the oral history of oral histories

No fouls were made during Rihanna's flawless performance, but the "anti-woke" mob will take issue regardless

The audience for America's game might be down around a staggering 10 percent this year, but these 10 movies rule

Just 1.3 percent of homeowners in the state have national flood insurance policies

With Kurt Schrader's apparent defeat in Oregon, the Blue Wall of status-quo corruption keeps on crumbling