This isn’t a column about The Raincoats. It isn’t about how I finally swallowed my pride, and finally purchased their reunion album Looking In The Shadows (Geffen, 1996) from Amazon a few weeks back.

As Valentine’s Day draws near, candy hearts emblazoned with XOXO, as in “hugs and kisses,” remind us that love is in the air. But why XO? Why not AB? Or XY? It turns out that XO, which has been ...

The Bachelor is finally back, and things are already heating up. The three-hour-season premiere kicked off on Jan. 6, with limo night, group dates, and the first one-on-one date. We can’t forget that ...

Variations of the expression XOXO have been in the cultural lexicon for years. Maybe you associate those two letters with Gossip Girl (or its recent reboot), which featured them as the cheeky sign-off ...

BINGHAMTON, NY -- Go ahead: Give your partner a hug or cuddle while you catch some Netflix. According to recently published research from Binghamton University, State University of New York, it just ...

“You basically hate all music, don’t you?” remarked our friendly local Brisbane hipster — the one in the all-girl Breeders soundalike band, the one who thinks music shouldn’t have been allowed to ...