Rapper Kendrick Lamar will headline Move Afrika: A Global Citizen Experience, a new initiative to establish an international touring circuit on the continent of Africa launching with a concert in Kigali, Rwanda on Dec. 6.
Celebrities having birthdays during the week of Oct. 29-Nov. 4 include actor Winona Ryder, actor Tracee Ellis Ross and reality show personality and model Kendall Jenner.
Spain’s royal family have presided over the presentation of this year’s Princess of Asturias awards that are among the most important in the Spanish-speaking world.
There isn’t much Cher hasn’t done in her career. She’s achieved EGOT status. She’s the only artist to have a No. 1 song in each of the past six decades.
In July, country music star Craig Morgan re-enlisted in the Army Reserves at age 59. It was on the historic Grand Ole Opry stage, where he’s performed so many times before.
Will Smith joined wife Jada Pinkett Smith on stage as she promoted her new memoir in her hometown of Baltimore, pledging lifelong support for her.
Oscar-nominated actor Burt Young has died. Young played Paulie, the angry, grumbling best friend and brother-in-law of Sylvester Stallone in six “Rocky” movies.
Thirty-two years after “The Firm” launched his career as a legal novelist who churns out bestselling books that inevitably become movies, John Grisham returns with a sequel starring Mitch McDeere.
Celebrities having birthdays during the week of Oct. 22-28 include actor Kevin Kline, bassist Robert Trujillo of Metallica and comedian Samantha Bee.
Piper Laurie, the strong-willed, Oscar-nominated actor who performed in acclaimed roles despite at one point abandoning acting altogether in search of a “more meaningful” life, has died.
Nobel laureate Louise Glück has died at 80. Over more than 60 years of published work, Glück honed a narrative of disillusion, entrapment, alienation, betrayal and longing, spelled by moments of ecstasy and contentment.
Cellist Alisa Weilerstein and conductor Rafael Payare are on a four-concert cross-country run that ends Friday night at Carnegie Hall.
Celebrities having birthdays during the week of Oct. 15-21 include reality TV star Kim Kardashian, country singer Kane Brown and TV judge Judy Sheindlin.
On Saturday, the Grammy-winning singer-songwriter Lucinda Williams embarked on her 2023 tour, kicking off at the Ryman Auditorium in Nashville.
Vermont State Police are asking the public, businesses and hunters near a state university campus to review their surveillance systems after Honoree Fleming, a retired dean and professor who was married to best-selling author Ron Powers, was found shot to death on a rail trail.
Music Review: On ‘Come June,’ Mitch Rowland, collaborator to Harry Styles, makes a pretty folk debut
He might not be immediately recognizable to the masses, but multi-instrumentalist Mitch Rowland is a household name to a certain cohort of music obsessives: Harry Styles fans.
Julia Ormond sues Harvey Weinstein saying he assaulted her; accuses CAA, Disney, Miramax of enabling
Actor Julia Ormond has filed a lawsuit in New York accusing disgraced movie producer Harvey Weinstein of sexually assaulting her in 1995 and then hindering her career.
Judy Blume, James Patterson and Michael Connelly are among 24 prominent writers who have raised more than $3 million to help PEN America open a center in Miami and expand it efforts to counter Florida’s surge in book bannings in recent years.
Keegan-Michael Key, half of the famed “Key & Peele” comedy duo, and his wife, Elle Key, a writer, director and producer, have translated their award-winning podcast, “The History of Sketch Comedy,” into a new book.
On Maggie Vine’s 30th birthday, she makes a marriage pact with her handsome best friend. Thing is, the struggling singer-songwriter had already made a similar deal with her first boyfriend, who’s now an extremely successful and attractive actor.
British media are reporting that a second British police force is looking into sexual offenses allegedly committed by actor and comedian Russell Brand.
Celebrities having birthdays during the week of Oct. 8-14 include singer Usher, actor Hugh Jackman and TV personality Stacy Keibler from “Dancing with the Stars.”
Ahead of Dustin Lynch’s sixth studio album, “Killed the Cowboy,” the 38-year-old country star sensed some inner conflict.
Japanese novelist Haruki Murakami has hosted a ghost story reading event in Tokyo amid growing attention before the announcement of this year’s Nobel Prize in literature.
Ringo Starr on ‘Rewind Forward,’ writing country music, the AI-assisted final Beatles track and more
There are rock stars, and then there is Ringo Starr. To call him prolific would almost shortchange his accomplishments. But it also feels right.
Lebanese singer and actress Najah Sallam, who surged to fame in the mid-20th century for her songs promoting pan-Arabism, has died. She was 92.
Michael Gambon, the Irish-born actor knighted for his long and storied career on the stage and screen and who gained admiration from a new generation of moviegoers with his portrayal of Hogwarts headmaster Albus Dumbledore in six of the eight “Harry Potter” films, has died.
US guitarist Al Di Meola suffers a heart attack on stage in Romania but is now in a stable condition
The award-winning U.S. guitarist Al Di Meola has suffered a heart attack while performing in Romania’s capital.
Tenor Jonas Kaufmann, recovered from a multi-drug resistant germ infection, is appearing in “Doppleganger,” a staged version of Schubert’s final songs.
Rachel Bloom was fiddling around with songs and sketches for a new musical stand-up special she was hoping to take on the road when the pandemic hit in 2020 and, as she describes it, “the world exploded.”
Berlin’s city government says Christian Thielemann has been chosen as the new general music director of the city’s Staatsoper, months after Daniel Barenboim ended his three-decade reign.