"Summertime and the livin' is easy," goes the jazz standard "Summertime" from "Porgy and Bess." To mark the official start of summer, WUWM is looking into the origins of the beloved and unmistakable ...

It hit 80 degrees today in the nation’s capital. The cherry blossoms have come and gone, and my neighbor put the top down on his Mustang. Yep – it may still technically be ten weeks away, but Summer ...

“HOW SHALL we beguile/The lazy time, if not with some delight?” asks Theseus, the Duke of Athens, in the last act of “A Midsummer Night’s Dream”. Beguiling, lazy and delightful: has any trio of ...

Spring is here, but as the warm weather arrives far more slowly than I’d like, I’ve found my thoughts drifting back to the brash, joyful days of Brat summer 2024—that moment of shared monocultural ...

The Classic Summer Songs You Forgot AboutMichael Ochs Archives - Getty Images What exactly makes a song a summer anthem? It can be summer-themed lyrics, like "summer, summer, summertime. Time to sit ...