Anyone who's had the pleasure of watching pianist Stefano Bollani in concert—whether it's in duo with fellow Italian, trumpter Enrico Rava, at the 2009 TD Ottawa Jazz Festival; in the trumpeter's New ...

I was brought up by an Airedale. I won't deny it, 'tis the truth and nothing but, Your Honour — a bumbling, oversized shaggy great Airedale. The earliest memory I have of anything resembling a pater ...

Evolutionary psychology explains useful mental and psychological traits as products of natural selection in the fight for the survival of our species. In the case of human emotion, it points the ...

In spite of spite's large and small impacts, and the obvious power it can hold on the human psyche, it has been 'virtually ignored' by social, personality and clinical psychologists, researchers have ...

When I first heard "In Spite of Ourselves," I thought my neighbor George —the one who brought his guitar to every 4th of July bonfire and made our spirits sing with a worn outlaw voice and worn, ...

Since so many of its songs are singalongs or romantic narratives, country music seems all but designed for duets. John Prine may be best known as a versatile singer-songwriter in the tradition of Bob ...

No music genre is as beholden to corporate radio as country music, and no form of music media is as conservative, aesthetically and politically, as corporate radio. Put two and two together, and it ...