Petaluma director Carl Jordan may be the perfect person to direct Sonoma Arts Live’s currently-running “A Night With Janis Joplin,” not because he’s got experience helming complicated musicals ...

Janis Joplin idolized this legendary singer, whose talent and style inspired her iconic voice and legendary rock career.

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 ...

There’s never been a Janis Joplin biopic. There have been movies — like the 1979 Bette Midler vehicle The Rose, originally conceived as a Joplin movie before Joplin’s estate withheld rights to her ...

It's not going out on too thin of a limb to say that Big Brother and the Holding Company's Live at the Carousel Ballroom 1968 is for the hardest of hardcore Janis Joplin fans only. The concert album ...

9-28-68: Big Brother and the Holding Company were scheduled to play a sold-out show at downtown's Community Concourse. The afternoon before the show, their singer Janis Joplin announced to the press ...