Paul Simon News

Legendary South African vocal group Ladysmith Black Mambazo opens a weekend of fascinating concerts with an evening of stirring music at Door Community Auditorium.

There is this song called Magnet and Steel by a guy named Walter Egan that was a Top 10 song in 1978.

In the English-speaking world, professional ironists have long noted that "God" is "dog" spelled backwards.

It wasn't until Ladysmith Black Mambazo's seminal work on Paul Simon's Grammy-winning Graceland that the world truly took notice of the South African a capella group, but the ensemble's been on a cross-cultural journey from the moment the members came together in the early 1960s.

Nina Simone news is arriving in waves, with producers of a biopic courting Dr. Dre for musical assistance, Issa Rae being cast as the songstress in a Lorraine Hansberry film and the Simone estate putting a documentary into production.

The first question at the Cannes press conference for Nebraska , the new film from Alexander Payne, was about why the director decided to shoot his comedy-drama in black and white.

Steve Martin is better known for comedy, and Edie Brickell is probably better known for being Paul Simon's wife.