Celebrity Sayings
We give contestants the first part of a common expression, and they give us the rest the expression. The twist? That common expression must end with a rhyming celebrity's name.
View ArticleA symbol of Minneapolis black power, The Way celebrates 50th anniversary
Born out of the racial crisis and unrest that gripped the Twin Cities and the nation five decades ago, a community center devoted to the needs of young black people was founded on Plymouth Avenue in...
View ArticleBiloxia s a music mogula remembered on historic anniversary
Close to 500 music lovers filled the Slavonian Lodge in East Biloxi on Friday and reminisced about some of the city's most historical musical moments from five decades ago. They also paid tribute to...
View ArticleCorrosion of Conformity, Superchunk Top the State Fair's Concerts This Year
This year's edition of the North Carolina State Fair offers a slate of all-North Carolina musical talent that speaks to the vibrancy of the state's musical riches and emphasizes a dazzling variety....
View ArticleThe show goes on for singer (and cancer patient) Sharon Jones
Vocalist Sharon Jones at the 2015 Toronto Film Festival, where Barbara Kopple's documentary "Miss Sharon Jones!" premiered. Preparing to go on stage for the first time in months after intensive rounds...
View ArticleJo Petit & the Dream Team bringing dance party to Solitude Park
It's time to head uptown and get down with some Motown Funk 'n' Soul as Jo Petit and The Dream Band bring their high energy dance-along party to Solitude Park, Banbridge on Friday 26 August at 7.30pm....
View ArticleDonald Trump and the power of negative thinking
Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump holds up a chart during an address to the National Association of Home Builders at the Fontainebleau Miami Beach hotel on August 11, 2016 in Miami Beach,...
View ArticleWhat to read this weekend: recommendations from the bunker
From the enigmatic James Brown to whether Australia should start to worry about China, here is what we are reading this week. "Stories that truly reveal something about the way power works are not...
View ArticleOur Apple Music Playlist to Help You Get Through Those Thursday Morning Lineups
Supreme's Fall/Winter 2016 collection made its debut in-store yesterday and, to celebrate, we've taken a look back at some of our favorite music-centric 'preme collabs from years past and put together...
View Article10 Disturbingly Offensive Ads That Landed Big Brands in Big Trouble
Newsflash: Racism isn't funny, cute or marketable. It's deplorable. So is misogyny and homophobia, yet somehow some of the world's biggest brands missed the memo.
View ArticleCharles Bradley and the Extraordinaires at MASS MoCA
When he was 14, Charles Bradley saw James Brown at the Apollo Theater , an experience that inspired him to learn to imitate the Godfather of Soul. He did it well enough that, years later, Bradley was...
View ArticleSharon Jones always gets up, gets out there: A new documentary...
The soul singer Sharon Jones, afflicted repeatedly with cancer but prone to rocking out as though possessed by James Brown's ghost, looked disconcertingly ill. Just behind a stage where about a dozen...
View ArticlePalo Alto: Veterans walk to honor, support police
Members of the Combat Veterans Motorcycle Association look on as Marine veteran James Brown thanks police officers for their service at a Vets 4 Cops event on Sunday, Aug. 21, 2016. Army veteran...
View ArticleReview: Sharon Jones documentary reveals heart and soul
Too dark. Too short. Too fat. Too old. Oh yeah, not making the right kind of music either.
View ArticleNext for LGBT Movement; Rikers Tragedy; Music and Poetry
This August Friday, catch up with some of our recent favorite conversations including Tavis Smiley on Michael Jackson and James McBride on James Brown, three poetry lessons, the heartbreaking, deeply...
View ArticleBijou To Offer Two Screenings of Sharon Jones Documentary
The Bijou Film Center will be offering two screenings of the Sharon Jones music documentary, "Miss Sharon Jones," on Saturday, Sept. 10 at its new screening room at 304 E. Broad St. The showtimes are...
View ArticleMiss Sharon Jones! Shows the Soul Singer Charming Crowds
Born in South Carolina to a mother acquainted with the godfather of soul, James Brown, Sharon Jones took a long time to get her music career going, not releasing her first record until she was 40. But...
View ArticleFather Harry of the God Squad Releases New Memoir, "I'll Never Tell"
Kevin Starr says the new memoir by Monsignor Harry G. Schlitt is "slyly humorous, engaging and illumined with lightning bolts of religious insight." Add to that encounters with Paul Lynde, James Brown,...
View ArticleCelebrate King Records Month this September
September in Cincinnati is King Records Month , and this year marks the 73rd anniversary of the first songs recorded for the classic and seminal Cincinnati-based label that helped shape the course of...
View ArticleJuan Gabriel was Mexico's Lennon-McCartney, our James Brown
A woman holds a picture of Mexican songwriter and singer Juan Gabriel near a statue of him during a mass in Mexico City's Garibaldi plaza, Tuesday, Aug. 30, 2016. Juan Gabriel, who's real name was...
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