The sky was dark when Steve Yanovsky returned home and opened his computer to a second world. The year was 1993. He had just closed off a long shift as a paramedic, but he was clocking into a ...

In the mid-Sixties, the Lovin’ Spoonful were one the most innovative and well-regarded bands around. Yanovsky’s whimsical, wild, wistful and weird guitar work was no small part of the quartet’s ...

Amy Mah Sangiolo and Vlad “Steve” Yanovsky, candidates for the 11th Middlesex district representative seat, faced off Tuesday in a debate hosted by the Charles River Regional Chamber. Sangiolo is the ...

Despite their seven Top 10 hits — including 1966’s chart-topping hot pavement anthem “Summer in the City” — and their (belated) induction into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, the Lovin’ Spoonful are all ...

Former Lovin' Spoonful guitarist Zal Yanovsky died of a heart attack Friday at his farm home outside Kingston, Ontario. He was 57. After busking in Toronto during his teens, Yanovsky's first break… By ...

Retired rock star Zal Yanovsky knew a thing or two about putting on a show. The former Lovin' Spoonful guitarist also knew a thing or two about making latkes, as he showed CBC viewers during an ...

Former Lovin’ Spoonful guitarist Zal Yanovsky, who traded in the wild rock star life for a quiet existence as a restaurant owner in Canada, died of a heart attack Dec. 13 at his home in Kingston, ...

Back in 1965, when I was 16, my friends and I considered ourselves way too cool for top-40 AM radio, which didn’t play enough folk, blues, R&B or early rock ‘n’ roll. Then I heard a new song that ...

Zal Yanovsky, 57, a guitar player with the 1960s group the Lovin’ Spoonful, died of a heart attack Friday in Kingston, Ontario, Canada. Yanovsky founded the band with singer-guitarist John Sebastian.