“Call for the wailing women to come; send for the most skillful among them,” enjoined the prophet Jeremiah in his lament for the fallen Israelites. The verse points up the ancient custom of hiring ...

Of all the abductions, this one is different.

In a world where just about everyone may worry they'll soon be replaced by smart machines, a cowboy poet named Ed has seemed to find enduring work in a small, dying town in the American Southwest. He ...

Mike Myers and Fred Armisen Are The Modern WeepersLast Friday night, a band no one had heard of, The Modern Weepers, played a sold-out set at NYC’s Mercury Lounge. Why did it sell out, when it […] ...