Director Rob Reiner has never made a sequel in his long career, and he hadn’t ever contemplated a follow-up to the most beloved rock comedy ever made, 1984’s This Is Spinal Tap. But then Harry Shearer ...

Sonoma Arts Live! theater company’s next production is “A Night with Janis Joplin.” The 12-show run of this rocking production at Andrews Hall in the Sonoma Community Center begins on Sept. 5 and ...

Janis Ann Millington of Wildwood FL and formerly Saratoga Springs NY and Argyle NY passed away peacefully after her courageous battle with breast cancer on Friday, August 1st 2025 at Golden Years in ...

Former Marquette men's basketball player David Joplin has found his next team. Basket Club Maritime Gravelines-Dunkerque, which plays in the Pro A league in France, announced on Aug. 12 that it had ...

A Joplin man has been charged in Jasper County Associate Division Court with first-degree harassment of a woman. The charge alleges that Michael Prall, 38, called a shelter representing himself as the ...

What once was part of a memorial gift to Joplin by a prominent family is being dismantled. Workers this week started taking down what was an early location of Freeman Hospital at 2008 Sergeant Ave.

Janis Bakoplus Banos, age 76, of Naples, Florida, passed away on July 8th after a brief and courageous battle with cancer, leaving behind a legacy rich in family. For 54 years, she was the beloved ...

Janis Beverly Brace (née Kingsley, formerly Ast) was born in Phoenix, Arizona, at Saint Joseph’s Hospital to Vernon and Sally Kingsley. At the time, Phoenix was still a small city of about 65,000 ...

Discover the life of singer-songwriter Janis Ian and how she rose as a folk icon and gay rights advocate. She broke ground with “Society’s Child” (1966), a bold take on interracial love, and “At ...

Janis Joplin was a force, and she was even more incredible live. Sadly, many of us were too young to hear her sing in person, and all we have to get an idea of how good she was is a somewhat limited ...

Sly Stone, a pop and funk music innovator best known for his band Sly and the Family Stone, has died. He was 82. The onetime San Francisco DJ played in what was Palm Beach County's closest version of ...

Singer-songwriter Janis Ian evolved from a precocious young talent to an influential figure in the music industry and an advocate for social justice. Born in 1951 to a politically active Jewish family ...