In today's Asking Eric column, R. Eric Thomas responds to someone who blocked contact with a friend of 54 years.

Social media posts claimed the moment happened at a September 1992 show in Birmingham. Tour records don't back it up.

SAN DIEGO — Can a Hungarian-born heavy metal fan who grew up as a professional wrestling devotee in a San Marcos trailer park ...

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DEAR ERIC: We had been friends with another couple for more than 50 years. They were always jealous about little things we did or bought, like a new sofa, new appliances, et cetera. But when we built ...

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Even icons have idols, and for a young Eric Clapton, that idol came in the form of a blues-loving, poetry-writing, avant-garde puppeteer who lived in a flat in Long Acre, Covent Garden, with his ...

Dear Eric: I’ve been good friends with a woman for about five years now; we live abroad. However, I am not and never have been a huge fan of her new husband. He talks over people or one-ups any ...

Dear Eric: I’ve been good friends with a woman for about five years now; we live abroad. However, I am not and never have been a huge fan of her new husband. He talks over people or one-ups any ...

Dear Eric: About a year ago a good friend lost her mother at an advanced age. Six months later she lost a brother rather suddenly to cancer. We’ve been friends for decades and are now both retired. We ...

Dear Eric: My parents are retired and enjoying the empty nest stage of life. They have a rather large home and my mother’s mobility has been severely hampered in the last few years. They refuse to get ...

“He’s more than a friend, he’s family,” Ozzy Osbourne once said about Elton John. Both first met during their harder partying years at a London bash during the 1970s and immediately bonded. Reflecting ...