Gary Dretzka

Townes Van Zandt Rear View Mirror (Sugar Hill) (star) (star) (star) (star) The new year brought the sad news that Townes Van Zandt had died at his Tennessee home. The...

Academy Award nominees gathered at the Beverly Hilton on Tuesday to receive their certificates of nomination and dish with their peers and the media. And though the event was casual,...

Theater owners were given a sneak preview of "Titanic," one of the most hotly anticipated summer films, during Paramount's banquet at the film industry's giant preview show here. While none...

It's not easy stealing thunder from Robin Williams and Billy Crystal when they're loose on a dais filled with celebrities. But Wednesday at the Warner Bros. luncheon at the ShoWest...

You can't go too far wrong quoting Frank Sinatra in this city, and that's just what the head of the Motion Picture Association of America did when he declared 1996...

George Ducas Where I Stand (Capitol) (star) (star) 1/2 Ducas' appealing second album opens with the Buddy Holly-flavored "Every Time She Passes By," then quickly runs the gamut of country...

Huun-Huur-Tu If I'd Been Born an Eagle (Shanachie) (star) (star) (star) You might need an up-to-date atlas to find the Tuvan homeland of Huun-Huur-Tu (it's a former Soviet republic, near...

Henry Kaiser, David Lindley The Sweet Sunny North, Vol. 2 (Shanachie) (star) (star) (star) Musical expeditionaries Kaiser and Lindley extend their "The World Out of Time" franchise with this second...

The Picketts Euphonium (Rounder) (star) (star) 1/2 BR5-49 BR5-49 (Arista) (star) (star) 1/2 Singer-songwriter Christy McWilson is a force to be reckoned with on the Picketts' affecting collection of alterna-country...

"The Sports Bar," a proposed series produced by Second City at the Chicago Production Center and set in a fictional sports bar, might have gotten lost in the huge bazaar...