Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. (Getty) With its hypnotic fourstroke melody, “Tom’s Diner” is little more than an idea for a song. It's a composite of events ...

Suzanne Vega recalls sitting backstage at “The Arsenio Hall Show” in 1990 when her manager told her, “I need to play this thing for you.” The “thing” was an unauthorized remix of her a cappella song ...

Tom’s Restaurant on the corner of Broadway and West 112th Street in Manhattan is super famous for two reasons. It’s the fictional site of the diner where the “Seinfeld” characters would gather, with ...

Despite growing up in New York City, singer-songwriter Suzanne Vega has a strong connection to Western Massachusetts. Over the years, she's played at Mass MoCA, at Barrington Stage Company, as part of ...

In the early ’90s, Karlheinz Brandenburg was searching for a song with optimal humanity. As the creator of the MP3, his ideal test subject needed to be warm enough to challenge his highly refined ...

Suzanne Vega started out as a singer-songwriter-guitarist with folk roots, but it wasn’t long before she proved to the world that she could rock out quite persuasively on her big hit, “Luka” — which ...

Suzanne Vega, of “Luka” and “Tom’s Diner” fame, is playing The Katharine Hepburn Cultural Arts Center in Old Saybrook for two nights, on Sunday and Monday. As it happens, Vega is a Katharine Hepburn ...