Gone was any of the old wink and smile he’d serve up on stage or those knowing glances that said he was in on the joke.

I grew up in an American apartheid,” he said. “Every aspect of my life was dictated by race.” He not only lived through but participated in the civil rights movement. The strange part, really, is that ...

1807: Parliament abolishes slave trade throughout the British Empire. On the same day, the first fare-paying, passenger railway service in the world is established on the Oystermouth Railway in ...

The "3rd Rock from the Sun" alum says he went to "actor jail" for awhile and talks working with John Leguizmo and Barbie ...

As Shawn Levy writes in his ode to the chateau, The Castle on Sunset (2019), “For more than 80 years, the phrase Sunset Strip ...

Welcome to the ninth Songs of the Week of 2025. This week Andy Von Pip, Caleb Campbell, Issa Nasatir, Matt the Raven, Scotty Dransfield, and Stephen Humphries helped me decide what should make the ...

“I dreamed about being born in medieval times,” says composer Yelena Eckemoff. Yelena’s newest album is not a rendering of early-music tropes in modern jazz feels. Rather, in her writing on this album ...

Bailey, defended by swimmer Maggie MacNeil; "Jennie's Boy" written by Wayne Johnston and championed by author Linwood Barclay; and "Etta and Otto and Russell and James" written by Emma Hooper and ...

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