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Exploring African contributions in the arts, join filmmaker Zeapoe Matalda, Dr. Greg Carlson, and critic Matt Olien in our Black History Month round-table.

The former New York Times book critic was known for her devastating pans. Now she’s up to something very different.

Kansas City has a rich and influential legacy when it comes to the development of Black gospel music. This is its largely untold story.

A penchant for super-abundance in this follow-up to The Nix helps to capture the contours of modern American life

Explore the 12 most memorable Fred Astaire movies from 'Top Hat' to 'Funny Girl'! Do you agree with our ranking?

There are contortionists who can’t fold themselves into as many different shapes as the late ‘Moonstruck’ director Norman Jewison did during his career.

From a prize-winning Irish dystopic novel and an unsettling psychological thriller, to an epic work of investigative reporting and an excoriatingly honest Australian memoir, our books columnist share her favourite reads from the past 12 months.

Mysterious and macabre and reflective of mortality—that’s the type of music for this edition of Brass, Reeds, and Percussion because it’s the Halloween edition.In 1936, before a concert to be broadcast on radio, Artie Shaw needed a theme tune. Theme tunes were important because they helped to indentify a big band. In short, having a theme tune was part of big-band marketing. Many big bands simply chose a song from Tin Pan Alley, but Shaw decided to write his own and to make it truly unique...

Grammy Award-winning Zac Brown Band recently shared a cover of "The Way You Look Tonight." Recorded live at California's Irvine Meadows Amphitheatre, the cover version is part of the group's first-ever live-covers album, From The Road, Vol. 1: Covers. The track follows their previously released rend

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