ADAM VOGLER ~ avogler@semissourian.com Captain "Magic" Valentino Willis speaks at Jefferson Elementary School Tuesday, Sept. 24, in Cape Girardeau. Willis, who is with the Harlem Swish Comedic ...

The Captain lives in the desert now as Don Van Vliet, a reclusive but successful 62-year-old painter who has been a minor star in the American art world for two decades. Many more still call him ...

For every universally celebrated song, known to all and played to death by radio stations everywhere, there are countless hidden gems -- album cuts that, for reasons unclear, somehow missed their ...

But many more still knew him as Captain Beefheart (read theartsdesk's obituary), revered for the matchless innovations he and his Magic Band offered rock with Trout Mask Replica in 1969, and the ...