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 ...

With its hypnotic fourstroke melody, “Tom’s Diner” is little more than an idea for a song. It's a composite of events witnessed by Suzanne Vega at Tom’s Restaurant, on 112th Street and Broadway in New ...

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 ...

Ironically, 1990's Days Of Open Hand was partially lost in the crowd of debuts by Vega's followers, the women of the "new folk movement" (among them Ani DiFranco, Sarah McLachlan, Tracy Chapman, and ...

Building the mystery: Suzanne Vega on the cover of Beauty & Crime. Suzanne Vega’s face has appeared on the cover of every one of her eight albums. Often, she shows off her hands, too — which, given ...

Suzanne Vega’s folk-rock storytelling went from the cafes of Greenwich Village to pop radio playlists in 1987, when “Luka,” a plainspoken yet unnerving first-person tale of child abuse, became a ...

For those who – perhaps heretically – reckon Vega never surpassed Suzanne Vega or Solitude Standing, it is salutary to hear later and arguably lesser songs stripped down and - consequently - beefed up ...