When it comes to Black History Month, this piece shares a white artist’s longtime aspiration for wanting to be cool and their owing a debt of gratitude to the birth of its origin, jazz. The concept of ...

LL Cool J, a two-time Grammy Award winner, has never lost his rap bona fides. At age 56, the legend is rapping again on The FORCE — short for Frequencies of Real Creative Energy — his first album in ...

We’ve all spent a lot of time indoors lately, and many of us have been staring at blank walls—or, worse yet, at those dog-eared posters we’ve been hauling around since our college days. Don’t have the ...

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BATON ROUGE, La. (WAFB) - Baton Rouge’s Hot Art Cool Nights market is home to some of the city’s best artists. Rain has thrown a wrench in some things this year, but vendors are figuring out how to ...

An Emmy-nominated, Beijing-born, New York-based multimedia motion graphics designer and art director, Lulu Jiang (MFA 2016 Computer Art) has carved out a dynamic career for herself ever since ...

Take a look at an overhead map of Nevada, and you'll spot two standout anomalies amidst the long stretches of lonely roads and empty desert. Las Vegas and Reno are quite prominent, their larger city ...

From one of the world’s best metal festivals to a celebration of the “Blood Moon,” there is a lot to see and do in Northern California this weekend and beyond. Here is a partial rundown. Gojira is the ...

BATON ROUGE, La. (WAFB) - Looking for something fun to do? The Hot Art Cool Nights Arts and Music Festival is happening in Baton Rouge on Friday night, May 9. During the event, attendees can walk, ...

As late as the 1930s, precious few Austin buildings came with the gift of air conditioning. A few movie theaters. Some hotels and motels. At least one department store — Scarbroughs on Congress Avenue ...

Kelly Scott, a former Los Angeles Times editor who oversaw arts, culture and entertainment coverage for much of her 25-year career at the newspaper, died in Highland Park, Ill., on Jan. 30 of ...