The hangings parted and a great brown woman emerged—she was the size of Fay Templeton in her Weber & Fields days, and she was even garbed similarly, in a rose satin dress, spangled ...

The way we approach planning has shifted. Instead of counting down the days until the estate tax sunset, we are now in a more stable planning environment. Thomas McKay The One Big Beautiful Bill Act ...

Jethwa took home the Snow Leopard for best actor for his performance in the Indian feature “Homebound” while Tandin Bidha won the Snow Leopard for best actress for her role in the Bhutan feature “I, ...

Telisha “Nikki” Jones grew up steeped in gospel, blues and R&B. She sang in a choir and wrote poetry. But becoming a full-time artist was “never a dream of mine,” she said. That all changed in ...

Have you ever just had your world absolutely reordered because of a piece of music? If you consider yourself a devout music fan, then you surely have, and one genre that seemingly tends to lead to ...

From heartbreak to triumph, these songs capture life's most powerful moments in just a few verses. Join us as we count down the most beautifully crafted stories ever told through country music! Our ...

In her Rolling Stone cover story last summer, Ice Spice likened her hustle to none other than SpongeBob SquarePants, the cartoon crustacean whose eponymous animated series premiered in 1999, just a ...

In tracing the journey of modern music, there is one key takeaway: All roads lead to Mavis Staples. Her legendary eight-decade career would prove as much. It has taken us through South Side Chicago ...

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The much-garlanded Staples is a bridge between now and then, and Sad and Beautiful World, her first album since 2019’s We Get By, shows her to be as relevant and contemporary as ever; a timeless ...

Apart from hip-hop and the occasional rock or country song, these times of protest and divisiveness lack the musical voices of the Civil Rights or anti-Vietnam War movements of the ‘60s. No longer do ...