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Royalty in WaitingRoberta Cleopatra Flack was born on Feb. 10, 1937, in Black Mountain, N.C., the second oldest of five siblings. In her early childhood, the family moved to Virginia, first to...

Altie Karper had been waiting for the call for years.An editor at a Knopf imprint, she had long wanted to publish an English translation of the last novel by Chaim Grade, one...

News flash: Drake’s music is not dead.Although the Canadian rapper, the longtime prince of streaming, was badly pummeled in a diss-track war with Kendrick Lamar last year, and two weeks ago Lamar...

Jane Fonda, who has been politically outspoken since the Vietnam War era, urged people “to resist successfully what is coming at us” as she accepted a lifetime achievement award Sunday night during...

‘Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow’ (1971)By the time Flack released her cover of this Shirelles’ classic, in late 1971, Carole King (who wrote the song with Gerry Goffin) had already done...

The renowned conductor Michael Tilson Thomas announced on Monday that he would scale back his engagements because of a recurrence of brain cancer.Thomas, 80, who has been grappling since 2021 with glioblastoma,...

Few groups have had more impact on the shape and evolution of hip-hop than Wu-Tang Clan, the Staten Island supergroup that helped define the sound of 1990s New York rap and transform...

WWE 2K25 will not be bringing back the beloved show intro cutscenes from the MyUniverse mode. While fans have eagerly anticipated updates about the upcoming release, recent announcements have highlighted several additions,...

In the 1990s, as her career was on the rise, a 20-something Posey told an interviewer that she was working on a screenplay. She was interested, she said, in writing roles for...

One of the most significant innovations in recorded music took place a century ago in New York City. On Feb. 25, 1925, Art Gillham, a musician known as “the Whispering Pianist” for...