To celebrate the 30th edition of the L.A. Times Festival of Books, we asked authors, editors, critics and scholars to select the 30 best nonfiction books since the festival was inaugurated.

Members of the Decemberists, Wolf Parade, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah and more look back on the 2005 album releases that changed ...

The Padres chose to start the season with a rotation of King, Cease, Vasquez, Pivetta and Hart. All with experience, even ...

Mount McSauba Recreation Area provides modest elevation gain with immodest views, while the Little Traverse Wheelway connects Charlevoix to neighboring Harbor Springs via 26 miles of paved trail ...

Bob Dylan didn't want to be the voice of a generation, and a lyric or two in "My Back Pages" explains his reasoning via ...

Bob Dylan performed his first major gig in New York City on April 11, 1961, and included the experience on his 1962 debut album.

Most of these rallies have had musical guests, but LA’s even had the highest profile ones yet: Neil Young and Joan Baez ... the Beautiful” and Bob Dylan’s “Don’t Think Twice, It ...

The artistic fruits of that period — the spotty and proudly abrasive Sometime in New York City album — were not very tasty, ...

The Courant’s arts picks for April 13-19 included a plethora of women artists, a night of doo-wop, early rock ‘n’ roll acts ...

Padres manager Mike Shildt takes the ball from Dylan Cease during a pitching ... term security that eluded him in Chicago. When you’re a promising, young starter for the White Sox, the feeling ...