In June of 1974, Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention were ready for their television closeups, but technology was unfortunately not on their side. Over 50 years later, Cheaper Than Cheep finally ...

QUEENSBURY, N.Y. (NEWS10) –A 101-year-old Queensbury veteran shared a poem on Friday that he wrote during World War II as his ship left Boston Harbor. The poem now resurfacing 80 years later. “I sat ...

When we listen to our favorite songs on the radio, we often treat the lyrics as abstract pieces of creative poetry or general expressions of romantic longing. We assume that songwriters are dipping ...

Frank Skinner loves poetry. And he thinks you might like it too. Join Frank each week as he takes you through some of his choice picks of poems. There may be laughter. There may be tears. There will ...

The poems referenced are “My Great-Grandmother’s Bible” by Spencer Reece and “How to Listen” by Major Jackson. Frank Skinner loves poetry. And he thinks you might like it too. Join Frank each week as ...

Steve Vai was just 21 when he made his San Diego concert debut in 1981 at the Fox Theater as the “stunt guitarist” in the band of former Grossmont and Mission Bay high schools student Frank Zappa. At ...

For the past three years, Michael Pedretti has honored Frank Shatz with a poem in honor of his birthday. Pedretti, a longtime friend of Shatz’s, is a former theater professor as well as an author, ...

“Alright, this is it! This is the big one! Happy Halloween, everybody!” declares Frank Zappa to a rabid New York audience on Halloween 78, and his is no hollow boast. On Halloween night of 1978, at ...

An epic journey inside Zappa’s mid-70s progressive rock masterpiece. The 50th Anniversary 4CD + 1Blu-ray edition of Frank Zappa’s 1975 One Size Fits All takes fans deep into the creation of a ...

“My humble curse: May your shit come to life and kiss you.” – Frank Zappa, “The Real Frank Zappa Book” (1990) In death, Frank Zappa lives. You don’t have to know his work. Such is the digital ...

Frank Zappa is one of the most unique and off-the-wall rock stars to ever grace the mainstream. Zappa’s music and general brand certainly had their own special and identifiable mark. Though those ...

Moon Unit Zappa is an actor, singer and author of a new memoir “Earth to Moon,” which explores her upbringing in Hollywood as the child of iconoclast Frank Zappa. Zappa joins Washington Post national ...