For the first time in jazz's brief century, many leading artists are staying active beyond their eighth decade. Read More
Today is Saturday, Dec. 19, the 353rd day of 2009. Read More
Yele Haiti and RIBA Competitions are pleased to announce the launch of an International Student Open Design Competition, established by John McAslan + Partners and Allied London, for a new music studio facility in Cite Soleil (Port-au-Prince), Haiti. Read More
President Barack Obama is struggling in the job-approval polls, and more and more voters are wondering whether his health-care reform bill is really "reform." Read More
Agreeing with his wife, Hillary, President Bill Clinton told CBS Radio his 1993 "don't ask, don't tell" policy on gays in the military wasn't working, and he pledged to work with the Pentagon to find a way to fix it. Read More
Bess Lomax Hawes, who sang with Woody Guthrie and Pete Seeger, co-wrote the Kingston Trio hit "M.T.A." and spent a lifetime documenting American folklore in recordings and films, has died at age 88, her family said Monday. Read More
Elvis Costello, the British singer-songwriter who swept through the London pub scene, the punk movement and the New Wave fad while retaining his signature sound, continues to release great work 30-plus years into his career. Read More
With a little help from Carol Burnett, a new star from the hit TV show "Glee" and other top entertainers, political Washington is saluting five of the nation's top artists with the Kennedy Center Honors this weekend. Read More
In the 1960s and 1970s, Vicksburg native Bill Ferris was doing something taboo for a white man in post-Jim Crow Mississippi. Read More
Presidents call and "The Queen of Soul" delivers. Read More
Like him or hate him -- and there were few, it seemed, who did not energetically embrace one position or the other -- it's no ... Read the full Bill Clinton bio.