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Bob Mondello | NPR | Updated May 18, 2021 at 4:30 PM ET Actor Charles Grodin, whose comic characters were almost always hapless, and whose serious characters generally gave that trademark haplessness a sinister twist, died Tuesday of cancer at his home in Wilton, Conn. He was 86. His death, from bone marrow cancer, was confirmed to NPR by his son, actor Nicholas Grodin. He was the obstetrician who gave Rosemary's Baby to a coven of witches, the dog owner who couldn't control his enormous Saint Bernard in the Beethoven movies, and the man who met the girl of his dreams just a little bit ...

During an interview for FADER's podcast, Questlove revealed Dr. Dre once saved The Roots' career by keeping them on Geffen-Interscope.

Don't show me this message again✕ So you wanna be a rock star? Why actors fail at being musicians (Photo courtesy of Ella Hovsepian) When actors also identify as musicians, they typically fall into one of two camps. First, there is the Actor Who Was Always A Musician. That is to say, when audiences think of these people, they tend to automatically think of both mediums. This group includes, but is not limited to, Jamie Foxx, Johnny Depp, Kevin Bacon, Jared Leto, Johnny Flynn and Zooey Deschanel. Then there are actors who merge into musicianship a little later in their public careers, and ...

Angela Dennis, Knoxville News Sentinel Published 8:04 pm UTC Feb. 8, 2021 As the National Museum of African American Music opens its doors, journalists from the USA TODAY Network explore the stories, places and people who helped make music what it is today in our expansive series, Hallowed Sound. From the days of slavery through the Civil Rights Era to the BLM movement, Black music has emboldened American protests with songs so intertwined with events that they've become part of the country's history themselves.  Songs that raised fists in solidarity in the 1960s found a rebirth durin...

December 18, 2020   This is the story of how I prepared for a decade to graduate in 3 months. In 2012, I dropped out of college, where I was studying computer science, after just one semester. I already knew how to program and I thought I’d never need a degree. Over the years, I found myself complaining a lot about it. I saw many opportunities, especially abroad, that were out of reach because I didn’t have the required papers. I felt ready for graduate school but couldn’t get admitted. I had to work harder to prove myself to employers. Although I never noticed any serious gap in my k...