Chester Englander is a big name in a small world: he is playing the cimbalom, a jumbo hammered dulcimer that resembles an inside-out piano, in John Adams’s “Antony and Cleopatra” at the Met.

He played with Frank Zappa, David Bowie, Talking Heads and others before joining King Crimson, where he was the guitarist and frontman until 2009. During this time, he also explored a successful ...

Fame came early for Moon Unit Zappa ... as “Don’t Eat the Yellow Snow” and “Bobby Brown”, about a proud misogynist who contemplates raping a cheerleader. Frank was a self-confessed ...

Moon Unit Zappa, daughter of musician Frank Zappa, reflects on her unconventional childhood in a new memoir, Earth to Moon. The book details her experiences growing up in a chaotic household ...

In theory, Frank Zappa should be the ultimate icon of progressive rock. In fact, I’m sure there are more than a few devotees to the father of the Mothers of Invention who would swear by that statement ...

For someone whose musical style was so fluid, improvisational, and experimental as Frank Zappa, he was surprisingly prickly about his competition. Rock stars are all too often painted as these ...

Summer is still just around the corner, but shark season is officially underway after a white shark was spotted in Massachusetts waters Sunday, according to the New England Aquarium. After ...

The second largest shark species in the world is being spotted close to the Bay State coast, according to shark researchers. Multiple basking sharks were seen off Plymouth Friday morning.

WASHINGTON − The Senate confirmed Frank Bisignano on May 6 to be commissioner of the Social Security Administration, placing him in charge of an agency central to the lives of retirees that has ...

By Annie Aguiar A Frank Lloyd Wright building in Oklahoma, the architect’s only realized vision for a skyscraper, has been sold to a company that says it will restore the tower for use as a ...

Frank Lampard pushed away a Sunderland fan who tried to take a selfie with him moments after his Coventry team lost in the Championship play-off semi-final. Dan Ballard's goal in the final moments ...