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Seventy years ago in New York City, a combination of outraged political radicalism and artistic grandeur derived from wounded humanity produced a song that struck to the heart of racism in the US. “Strange Fruit”, made famous...
Paloma Faith: The singer on style icons, fancy dress - and her enviable waist-to-hip ratio All the women in my family are very glamorous, in leopard print and furs – like Elizabeth Taylors without the surgery. They were young...
"Believe me when I say I am the luckiest man to be born." Those were former Milwaukee Brewer Larry Hisle's first words Tuesday as he spoke to students at Hillcrest School. "I realized that for the rest of my life I would be...
Artist: The Noisettes Title: Wild Young Hearts Label: Mercury Records Limited Genre: Alternative/Soul/Electronica When two punk-rock London rude boys met a bluesy-soul songstress with a halo of hair...
Our view: A new Negro league baseball museum could revitalize Pennsylvania Ave. B altimore, long a center of African-American culture on the East Coast, is a natural home for the region's first Negro league baseball museum, and...
On Tuesday Nov. 18, the University of Pennsylvania hosted "The People Speak Tour" at the Irvine auditorium. This tour, which has been visiting universities across the country, is promoting the History Channel's new documentary...
One thing I love about Los Angeles is that everyone comes here, and I don't have to go anywhere -- they come to me. Case in point: Joey Arias, the drag diva who first made a splash in New York's underground drag scene and then...
Cheryl Cole – 3 Words Cole's album cover, photographed by Nick Knight, appears to be the sum of many parts: Leona, Shakira, Billie Holiday, My Fair Lady, Girl With a Pearl Earring and Her Majesty the Queen. And yet somehow, it...
Half of a key American duo from the golden age of tap-dancing Jimmy Clark, who has died aged 87, was the "straight-man" of the renowned tap-dancing Clark Brothers. As the last "brother" tap act from the golden era of swing,...
Death doesn't have to be the end. The list included actors such as James Dean, Heath Ledger and River Phoenix, as well as singers Otis Redding, Buddy Holly and Selena. I mourned funnymen John Candy and John Belushi, and...
