Christmas Eve jazz concert at Kennedy Center canceled after Trump name added to building
The show's host, musician Chuck Redd, says that he called off the performance in the wake of the White House…
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Sylvester Stallone, Kiss and Gloria Gaynor are among the luminaries being celebrated Sunday at the annual Kennedy Center Honors, with Donald Trump hosting the…
Jimmy Cliff, reggae giant and star of landmark Jamaican film 'The Harder They Come,' dead at 81
Cliff was nominated for seven Grammys and won twice for best reggae album.
Novelist Rabih Alameddine and poet Patricia Smith win National Book Awards
The night’s honorees expressed gratitude for prizes bestowed and for literature itself, and horror and disenchantment at the political and…
$50M Literary Arts Fund will support independent publishers and nonprofits
Citing a chronic shortage of financial backing for independent publishers and nonprofits dedicated to writing and reading, a coalition of…
Joy Reid and Percival Everett among winners of the 46th annual American Book Awards
Former MSNBC host Reid, who left MSNBC in February soon after the network canceled her prime time show “The ReidOut,…
Andrea Gibson, poetic explorer of life, death and identity, dies at 49
Gibson, a celebrated poet and performance artist who through their verse explored gender identity, politics and their 4-year battle with…
Brian Wilson, visionary leader of the Beach Boys, dies at 82
Brian Wilson, the Beach Boys’ visionary and fragile leader whose genius for melody, arrangements and wide-eyed self-expression made him one…
Sly Stone, leader of funk revolutionaries Sly and the Family Stone, dies at 82
Sly Stone, the revolutionary musician and dynamic showman whose Sly and the Family Stone transformed popular music in the 1960s…
Edmund White, groundbreaking bard of gay literature, dies at 85
White documented and imagined the gay revolution through journalism, essays, plays and such novels as “A Boy’s Own Story” and…
