ArtsBeat: Billy Joel to Be a Madison Square Garden ‘Franchise’

Starting in January, Mr. Joel will play a show a month at the Garden for as long as fans want to hear him play, he said Tuesday.

    

James Rensenbrink, Whose Alternative Newspaper Endured, Dies at 81

Mr. Rensenbrink’s Aquarian Weekly claimed to be one of the last independent alternative papers in the country and one of the oldest continuously published ones.

    

Strong Earnings for Live Nation in Concert Season

The promoter, which owns Ticketmaster, reported $1.7 billion in revenue for the second quarter, with ticket sales up 26 percent from the year before.

    

Paul Williams, Father of Rock Criticism, Is Dead at 64

Mr. Williams, who founded the music magazine Crawdaddy when he was a freshman at Swarthmore College, is considered by many to be rock journalism’s founding father.