How Radiohead, Whitney Houston, Meat Loaf and others made a point with punctuation. Today’s playlist is devoted to one of my absolute favorite musical conventions: the parenthetical song title. Why ...

My toddler son has decided that what he cares most about in this world is trains, or, as he calls them, in exclamations that range from joyous to angry to plaintive, “choo-choos.” This choo-choo phase ...