Gazing in that mirror, he committed to art in an instant, and just as swiftly all else was stripped away: his scholarship, his apartment, his allowance, his shining boots, and, most profoundly, his ...

Patti Smith, the celebrated rock poet who won a National Book Award for 'Just Kids,' revisits her hard-scrabble childhood, success and the loss of her husband, Fred Sonic Smith, in 'Bread of Angels.' ...

The singer-songwriter wisely builds her memoir around her creative 1970s in New York — but other periods get weighed down in ...

For much of the world, he had us at “Jerry Maguire,” or his “Fast Times at Ridgemont High” script, or “…Say Anything.” But for a select portion of his fandom, filmmaker Cameron Crowe really had us at ...

Police say country music singer Conner Smith, 24, was driving a pickup truck that struck and killed a pedestrian in Nashville. Dorothy Dobbins, 77, was crossing the street in a marked crosswalk when ...