Patti Smith talks about 'Bread of Angels,' her latest book. Smith wrote the book over a 10-year period, chronicling her ...

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Radon is sickening thousands of Ohioans a year. An investigation from the Columbus Dispatch investigation found the state ...

A dreamer and adventurer, Hiroko may head out to New York City at some point, as at least one Minnesotan from up north she ...

“Just Kids” is a memoir of Smith’s early years in New York and her relationship with the artist Robert Mapplethorpe. They ...

At the Chicago Theatre, Patti Smith and her band tore into “Horses” from top to bottom, and 50 years on, it’s still ...

The indomitable punk poet — who was born in Chicago and briefly lived in Logan Square when she was young — dedicated “People ...

“Jesus died for somebody’s sins but not mine,” Smith sang on Saturday over the slow piano chords of keyboardist Tony Shanahan ...

What a magnificent night of live music, centered on the 1975 debut that is regularly — and rightfully — considered to be one ...

The singer-songwriter and poet recounts her childhood in this memoir, the place where “the kingdom of the infinite imagination” first opened beneath her feet.