Ike Turner

Hey, buck up, Owl Country. It was just one game. I sense that the fog of melancholy that settled over the landscape following the drubbing out west has yet to dissipate. Take a towel and rub it away. We......

Today's date is 12-12-12. OK, first the good news, 12-12-12 is not the date on which the world is scheduled to end. That will not be happening until a week from Friday, so breathe easy. Frankly I'm getting tired of all these end-of-the-world deadlines....

Pinetop Perkins lived the blues. Born on a cotton plantation near Belzoni, Miss., in 1913, he worked the fields from age 7, drove a truck for a living at 18 and got stabbed in the arm in his late 20s. The barroom attack tore his tendons and cut his...

When it was announced that André Benjamin – better known as Outkast’s André 3000 -- would be portraying iconic guitarist Jimi Hendrix in a biopic, it finally put to rest years of rumors of who would channel the psychedelic rocker on the big...

A recap of the first night of Boot Camp on "The X Factor," in which 162 contestants vie for 32 slots....

It's not so much raw chutzpah as sheer love — backed by unassailable musical chops — with which veteran Southern California blues musician Mike Eldred puts on display in “61 and 49,” referencing the fabled intersection in...

David Johansen has had a lot of identities in a career that has now exceeded 40 years: front man for The New York Dolls and The Harry Smiths, lounge singer alter ego Buster Poindexter, solo artist. The one he filled......

• Pete Hammond -- who pegged Sandra Bullock as a contender weeks before anyone else -- surveys the lead actress field and finds it "all over the map." Pete concludes, "EW's annual survey of four academy voters (not the biggest sample exactly) had Streep...

Ten thoughts from Game 1: 1. Jameer Nelson was outstanding (except for a stretch in the 4th quarter). That first half was about as well as he has played with the Magic. Still, you knew the Bobcats would adjust, and losing Dwight Howard in the 2nd half...

Memphis, Tenn. Knowing how obsessed Elvis fans can be, I wasn't surprised when my wife and I drove up to the Heartbreak Hotel and found, true to the song's lyrics, that it was actually "down at the end of Lonely Street" and that the desk clerk was...

Tina Turner wants to become a Swiss citizen, and love has everything to do with it. If you've been wondering what the iconic diva has been up to lately, she's been living in Kuesnacht, a Zurich suburb, since 1995. A Swiss paper wrote Friday that the...

Andre Williams w/ Barrence Whitfield & the Savages and Bronson Rock. $15. 9 p.m., Dec. 1. Cafe Nine, 250 State St., New Haven, cafenine.com. As of November 1, Andre Williams has officially spent 76 years on Earth, and that cautionary proverb about...