If I told you there’s a huge bass marimba sitting in one of the rehearsal rooms at the University of Washington School of Music, you might wonder what it sounds like — though you could probably guess.

The dark, surrealistic artistic vision of David Lynch, whose death was announced on January 16, was shown through films like Eraserhead (1977), Mulholland Drive (2001) and Blue Velvet (1986), and his ...

In an essay about Mexican-Americans in the '50s titled "The Pachuco and Other Extremes," Mexican writer and Nobel Prize winner Octavio Paz writes that we "distinguish ourselves from other peoples by ...