Cake, Air Supply, Moulin Rouge, Chelsea Handler and local festivals headline this week’s Capital Region events calendar.

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. By early 1963, the Station Hotel in London had become an epicenter of the burgeoning British blues scene. On a ...

TALK ABOUT A wedding present. In 1873, businessman Charles C. Pierson gifted a gorgeous new home, located at what is now 1028 N. Delaware, to his bride, Mary Alice Scofield. Surprisingly, the couple ...

38 years ago today, on April 5, 1988, Cheap Trick released their timeless power ballad “The Flame.” Though the song served as the band’s first No.1 hit on the Billboard Hot 100 chart and went on to ...

Dorie Greenspan’s luscious cake serves up spring, with five stars and over 10,000 reviews. By Mia Leimkuhler What we — readers and staff members — are clicking on and cooking, and can’t stop thinking ...

The Sacramento alternative rock band Cake is hosting a fundraiser concert for Councilmember Mai Vang, who is running for California’s 7th Congressional District. In a news release, lead singer of Cake ...

A 1990s rock band says its new album will be their best yet. Extreme, best known for the No. 1 hit “More Than Words,” says it has completed work on its seventh studio album. A title has not been ...

Greg Brown, whose grungy guitar licks helped propel the band Cake, which he helped found, to the top of the alternative rock charts in the mid-1990s, and whose irony-laced lyrics for their hit song ...

Greg Brown, founding guitarist of alt-rock band Cake and the man behind the group’s breakout hit “The Distance,” has died at age 56. “It is with heavy hearts that we share the news of Greg Brown’s ...

Abbey Road, a Beatles tribute band, will perform Thursday night at the Buskirk-Chumley Theater. Doors will open at 7 p.m., and the performers are set to go on at 7:30 p.m. Axel Clarke, the group’s ...