When you have to live in solitary for a year, with next to no contact with the outside world, how do you pass the time? Well, music is probably going to play a big part. And indeed it does in Apple ...

J.S. Gornael has a BA in English with a Creative Writing Emphasis in Poetry and an MFA in Fiction. He has taken workshops in poetry, fiction, and non-fiction (though mostly the second). Half-cinephile ...

Photo: Iranian musician Kayhan Kalhor will play The Town Hall in New York City, Nov. 30. Photo courtesy of Nima ...

The Bay Area Persian Choir, a non-profit community music group dedicated to preserving and promoting traditional Persian ...

Last Saturday afternoon, Marjan Vahdat and her sister, Mahsa Vahdat, treated an audience at Big Springs Mountain Retreat, ...