People who study empathy say that before you can empathize with the plight of others, it’s important to see their humanity and what it has in common with your own. One of the problems with ...

Smashing Pumpkins‘ Billy Corgan has posted an extremely long and existential essay in response to a meme that playfully suggests he could be related to Taylor Swift. An image has been making the ...

Jane’s Addiction’s debut studio album Nothing’s Shocking just turned 25. To celebrate, the band performed the album in full three nights in a row at Brooklyn Bowl Las Vegas last weekend. Billy Corgan ...

The occasion of Billy Joel’s 100th show at Madison Square Garden on July 18 brought back great memories. In the early 1990s, my husband, Joe, was invited to attend a concert while on a business trip ...

The meme is a side-by-side comparison of a makeup-free Swift and a broody Corgan, offering ‘proof’ of her parentage, and while fairly clearly it’s a goof, it sent Billy into some pretty serious ...

For a band that hasn't released new music since 2014, the Smashing Pumpkins have had quite the headline-grabbing run lately. The acoustic In Plainsong tour has occasioned a reunion with founding ...

Eichner, 35, wrote of the first stand-up show he had ever seen at age 8, which featured Rivers "wearing a long, heavy sequined gown in the middle of a sweltering summer day in New York City." Twenty ...

For Margaret Renkl, a cedar waxwing is "A flying jungle flower. A weightless coalescence of air and light and animation." The squirrel at her squirrel-proof finch feeder surprises by "pulling it to ...