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, ...

On 1975, "Saturday Night Live" premiered on NBC with George Carlin as host and musicians Janis Ian and Billy Preston on the ...

“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 ...

Ian had her first hit record as a teenager in the 1960s and went on to win two Grammys. A new documentary tells her life story through a combination of vintage footage and newly recorded interviews.

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, ...

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 ...