“Janis Ian: Breaking Silence” is so close to being a great documentary that its easily remedied flaws are all the more vexing. Director Varda Bar-Kar (“Fandango at the Wall”) offers a conventional but ...

Janis Ian performed as the musical guest on the premiere episode of Saturday Night Live with a raging fever and strep throat. “Everybody in the cast was very nervous because they’d never done live TV, ...

From a documentary about a rabbi who dresses in drag to a dark comedy about one family’s memorable Shabbat dinner, the selections at this year’s Long Island Jewish Film Festival offer a kaleidoscopic ...

Ian enjoyed an even bigger hit in 1975 with the coming-of-age anthem "At Seventeen," which won a Grammy Singer-songwriter Janis Ian is best known for her 1975 Top 10 single "At Seventeen," but at 16, ...