Following a report in The New York Times about a White House meeting where Elon Musk and Secretary of State Marco Rubio had clashed in front...
Since the election in the United States, performers at big-tent events like the Academy Awards and the 50th anniversary celebration of “Saturday Night Live” have steered...
Betty Bonney was already a veteran big-band vocalist at 17 when she joined Les Brown and His Orchestra in 1941 — in time to sing the...
There’s a short-story axiom: Begin in medias res. These stories open already wound tight, demanding release. Characterization doesn’t necessarily account for the situations his protagonists are...
For the most part, presidential inaugurations are moments of communal pageantry. There is music and poetry. There are oaths to recite and vows to make. Everyone...
Tom Johnson, a composer and critic whose Village Voice columns documented the renaissance of avant-garde music in downtown New York during the 1970s, and whose own...
