Frank Zappa

She missed a shot at Woodstock glory. But she recorded well-received albums under her own name and worked with Frank Zappa, Jerry Garcia and others.

Joe DiPietro’s Sunday puzzle is shrouded in mystery.

The documentary, directed by Alex Winter, portrays the musician and composer Frank Zappa as a sort of noble.

Ross Trudeau takes social media to a whole new level.

Career retrospectives, live recordings, archival digs and actual swords: a roundup of some of the most notable collections of 2017.

A documentary about Zappa is rich in archival interviews that say worlds about this musician — who was well known but not well understood — and his times.

After one name change, Dweezil Zappa is rechristening his show again to avoid legal conflict with a brother who controls the family trust.

Frank’s son Dweezil was told by the family trust, controlled by two of his siblings, that his show Zappa Plays Zappa risked huge copyright infringement fines.

The filmmaker Alex Winter is introducing a Kickstarter campaign to help finance a Zappa movie and preserve his archive. The home sale is part of the plan.

In the 1950s, a “moral panic” over comic books led to a strict code. In the 1980s, two powerful Washington women took on the music business.