It's not all sex and drugs. Popular music has a long history of nerd-dom. Sometimes it's a style, other times it's substance, but here's an incomplete guide to some of music's greatest geeks, on a ...

We tend to think of popes as people who are somehow elevated from the rest of us — a few steps up the ladder leading to God, perhaps. But Pope Francis, whose birth name was Jorge Mario Bergoglio, was ...

Orlando has long been a hotbed of nerd music, hosting internationally recognized festivals – like Nerdapalooza and Orlando Nerd Fest – devoted to the multigenre musical scene of geeks making music ...

Few things are more depressing for classical music lovers than the classical recording charts. Your eye roams despairingly down the endless lists of crossover and ambient pap, looking for something ...

Rick Snyder may have made the “nerd” moniker a bit passé, but these songs prove it’s still possible to gleefully embrace the nerdier aspects of our experience. Though now considered a pillar of ...

Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. Nerd Halen plays the music of Van Halen, a legendary band known for in-your-face ...

Alex Trebek may not understand what nerdcore is, but that doesn’t make it any less awesome. The music subgenre dedicated to everything geeky is just one of the many realms of music celebrating nerds.

There will come a day when some fresh-faced young person in a lab coat will try to coax an old Spoon record out of my ancient, gnarled hands. Let me tell you something -- there's going to be a tussle.

Over the past 14 years, this column has explored a wide range of Central Florida’s arts and attractions, from family-friendly theme parks to world-class theater; but from Live Active Cultures’ very ...

Welcome to 2025. Or, as the nerd in me is thinking, 3 4(5 2)which is 3 to the fourth power times 5 squared). It is not common among my musical friends to be this into mathematics. But, I did take ...

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According to this article in the New York Times, the question of nerd-dom is finally starting to receive a tiny fraction of the attention it deserves. A linguist at UCSB has identified the essence of ...