Some of America's best coffee isn't hiding in trendy cafés anymore. It’s popping up in and behind gas stations, inside convenience stores and on the edges of parking lots nationwide. In Denton, Texas, ...

Jakob Bro’s Bill Frisell collaboration finally saw the light, Cécile McLorin Salvant drew on her teenage pop memories and Anthony Braxton looked back to 1985 The 50 best albums of 2025 More on the ...

Staffing shortages and rising labor costs have caused many 24/7 businesses to reduce their hours since the COVID-19 pandemic. But Rose City Coffee Co. is bucking the trend. The Southeast Portland ...

Portland has an incredible jazz scene. Always has, hopefully always will. From the historically Black Albina district to KMHD Jazz Radio, Montevilla Jazz Festival to the Jack London Revue, The 1905 ...

Cole Wheeler and Amanda Hodes opened Wheelhouse, a new coffee shop and bar, in Asheville's South Slope. The business, located at 225 Coxe Ave., serves coffee, smoothies, beer, wine and mocktails. The ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... After much consternation, I’ve managed to pare down a long list of fine jazz-improv recordings from 2025 to a top 10. So, apologies to Marshall Allen, The ...

It’s been a good year for jazz, diverse in every way—styles, influences, tastes, and demographics too. I didn’t aim the list to turn out this way, but four of the albums’ leaders are women, and five ...

Do you know that game where people try to avoid hearing “Last Christmas” by Wham! for as long as possible into December? It’s telling that the game exists, revealing not just that the song is ...

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The doors are locked at Second Best Coffee — a once-bustling shop in Kansas City’s Waldo neighborhood. Printed signs taped to the inside of either glass door simply read “closed.” Underneath, its ...

Anthony Edwards and the Minnesota Timberwolves are coming off of a dominant win against the Sacramento Kings on Sunday, and they’ll face the Utah Jazz on the second night of a back-to-back on Monday.

With federal funding for public radio and TV stations around the country drying up, supporters and station managers are having to get creative when it comes to raising money to stay in business. One ...