Dean Johnson, at his home in Seattle, rejects comparisons to the Everly Brothers. “Maybe I’m like a very unrefined back-porch Roy Orbison,” he says. Credit: Luis Arellenas Dean Johnson says that there ...

Hailes spent the last several years in New York, where she performed in "Hadestown" on Broadway and started her own solo career. She's back in Kansas City ahead of a show at The Blue Room on August 5.

Networking is not merely a sprint to collect business cards and make quick connections; rather, it requires patience, perseverance and the cultivation of genuine relationships. It takes time to ...

Twenty minutes. That is how long I spent trying to get my cable television to turn on. I call the cable company. I talk to a tape recorder that finally gets me to a human being. If I have any ability, ...