Most people would probably be surprised to find that Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons recorded a musically ambitious concept album in 1969 that was inspired by Pet Sounds and Sgt. Pepper’s. The Jersey boys were all about a doo-wop meets big band Motown sound and songs about girls, so no one expected an album of bold social commentary, complex vocal arrangements, long songs and quirky Van Dyke Parks-esque musical arrangements, but this is exactly what they got when the group released The Genuine Imitation Life Gazette. The opening fanfare is the provocatively titled “American Crucifixion Resurrection”: Unbound slaves stand outside the gate With lengths of broken chain they wait Empty stomachs filled with hate No-one told the heads of state, the Prince of peace is sleeping late Who will wait on the lords and ladies, who will cry when they lose their crowns?

Oregon Department of Corrections staff are responsible for all but one COVID-19 outbreak in state prisons, according to the department's infectious disease doctor. But only 55% of prison staff will elect to get the vaccine, the state estimates.

In the 1960s she would have been celebrated by the counterculture – but a decade earlier, Rosaleen Norton was shunned and mocked

When libraries and publishers entered the ebook landscape, they went with a model they knew and understood: they licensed library ebooks with a one copy/one user. While some other models have come out since then (such as cost-per-circ, where the library pays every time someone checks a book out, which you see with services like Hoopla) one copy/one user remains the most common way ebooks are sold for lending. However many licenses a library buys is how many people can read a book at a time. So why doesn’t the library just buy more copies? Because ebooks for libraries are really, really, really expensive.

CULLMAN, Ala. (AP) — A Mississippi teen who lost his Civil War-reenacting pet chicken Peep outside a Cracker Barrel restaurant in Alabama was reunited with the bird courtesy of a farmer who helped find the fowl. Thomas Ramsey, who founded a military reenactment group for youth, told The Cullman Times he was headed home from a weekend event at Spring Hill, Tennessee, when he stopped with a friend at the restaurant in Cullman on Jan. 31.

Trace fossils are useful paleontological allies—but they can't tell us everything.

Politics and professional wrestling have made strange bedfellows through the years. Whether it was Jesse Ventura as the governor of Minnesota, legendary Japanese star The Great Sasuke following in the steps of Antonio Inoki, Hiroshi Hase, and Atsushi Onita being elected to office in Japan, or even Kane as the Mayor of Knox County, TN, […]

The UK Supreme Court on Friday allowed a group of 42,500 Nigerian farmers and fishermen to sue Royal Dutch Shell (RDS) in English courts after years of oil spills in the Niger Delta contaminated land and groundwater.

Deputy Press Secretary TJ Ducklo lashed out at journalist Tara Palmeri, spurring conversations between Politico’s brass and the White House—and raising questions about behavior tolerated in the Biden administration.

It wouldn’t be simple for Joe Biden to oust the postmaster general, but it’s hardly as impossible as the press is making it out to be.

The west bought billions of vaccines fast and cheap, leaving poorer nations paying through the nose for years to come

The ‘Hustler’ founder almost died for daring to publish photos of interracial sex

In a leaked conversation, the governor’s top aide admitted that data was withheld on nursing homes, where more than 10,000 New Yorkers have died during the pandemic.

They are stars within one of the fastest-growing corners of American Christianity. Now, their movement is in crisis.

Several former employees went public to say they “do not feel safe” engaging privately with the group's leadership.

How safe spaces for transgressive humor, both online and in real life, helped breed a hateful ideology

Sarah Michelle Gellar, Anthony Head and others have commented on Carpenter's abuse allegations.

In the late ’90s, the Marvel legend decided to strike out on his own — with an alleged con man as his business partner.

Prolific criminal Damien Hammond was known for dressing as Batman's nemesis

He won release through a legal maneuver that has given hope to hundreds of other juvenile lifers all serving lifetime parole.