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Over the past three months, The New York Times has asked musicians, writers and scholars to share the favorites that would make a friend fall in love with jazz — starting with...

“Truth can be repulsive,” Bruno Walter, a conductor whose life had taught him that fact all too well, once said. “But Mozart has the power to speak truth with beauty.”If there was...

Activision Blizzard said its Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II generated $800 million in sell-through within the first three days. Activision Blizzard Inc. said its Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II generated...

Christine Farnon, a quiet force behind the Grammy Awards who was credited with shepherding the event from a private black-tie affair to a telecast seen by tens of millions, died on Oct....

The Atlanta trio Migos’ 2013 breakout hit “Versace” represented a clear demarcation line between the city’s older generation of rappers and its new vanguard. The rapping — much of it delivered in...

Wesley Morris and J Wortham kick off a new season of “Still Processing” by grappling with the complicated questions of Jordan Peele’s “Nope.”

“The Banshees of Inisherin,” Martin McDonagh’s black comedy about longtime friends, Padraic (Colin Farrell) and Colm (Brendan Gleeson), who have a contentious falling out, has the shape of a classic two-hander. What’s...

For the first time in five years, Taylor Swift is going on tour.Following the blockbuster success of her latest album, “Midnights,” which sold over a million copies in its first week out...

As a child, her brother said, Ms. Powell was both bookish and dramatic.“She loved to be onstage, and loved just being over the top and having everyone watch her,” he said. And,...

Takeoff, whose real name is Kirsnick Khari Ball, was born on June 18, 1994, and grew up in Lawrenceville, Ga. He “always wanted to rap,” he told The Fader, a music magazine,...