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The festival will start at noon on Saturday and last until around 10 p.m. that night.

83-year-old comedian Jerry Farber stopped in Macon as part of his Walk on Hope, to raise awareness for homelessness.

The N-word as slur vs. the N-word as a sequence of sounds Posted on On what Black History Month and the racial reckoning mean at the New York Times … Over the past week, the Times’ crossword puzzles have included many clues having to do with black culture and issues, and in fact have been by black constructors. A fine gesture for Black History Month. But then the other night we learned that longtime reporter Donald McNeil, who has done groundbreaking work on the pandemic, has been fired,...

Abigail Dowd doesn’t quite know just what genre her music fits into. “Maybe it’s folk, maybe its indie folk rock,” she said. “There’s probably a blues influence. A lot of people, I think, would describe it as folk, and whatever Americana means.” The singer/songwriter has found inspiration in the longleaf pine, in the working class and in her grandfather’s service during the Korean War, and has earned a good deal of acclaim in recent years for a pair of al...