Patti Smith's "Dancing Barefoot" begins with a description of a mystical woman: "She is benediction / She is addicted to thee / She is the root connection / She is connecting with he." The song was ...

Music is full of esoteric artists the mainstream ignores, but sometimes history corrects what the audience missed. In the 1970s, Arista Records tried but failed to break Patti Smith into the ...

Early into my tenure as a new line-dancing enthusiast, I found myself in Chatsworth, alone on a Friday night. I was looking for action — the country dance kind. It was not yet dusk when I entered the ...