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3 to get ready

NPR: Arts journalism organizations in three major U.S. cities get a much-needed financial shot in the arm | See Word Photo: iStockphoto via N...

A freedom song at 50

NPR: Investigating the birth of Bob Dylan's “Blowin’ in the Wind” and the different ways the song, and its central questions, remain the same. Photo: Simon & Schuster via Associated Pre...

Think tops weekend box office

Who’da thunk it? Think Like a Man, Tim Story’s romantic comedy starring Kevin Hart and a raft of newcomers, outpointed The Lucky One, with Zac Efron, and the one-time money monster, The Hunger Games, at the U.S. box office this weekend. Logo: © 2012 Sony Pictures. Box office data...

Jack at 75

“A man who, it sometimes seems, more than any other actor alive, happily looms like some trickster colossus over the entire Hollywood landscape ... and no one anywhere begrudges him his dominion.” Life.com: Photos of an actor on the brink HuffPo: John Farr on Jack's greatest hits Photo:...

April, the cruelest month

CNN: Dick Clark, the eternal American teenager, television producer and a tireless champion of rock culture and its music, dies at 82 on Wednesday.  Rolling Stone: Levon Helm, the drummer for The Band and that group’s indelible “beautifully gruff and ornery voice,” gone on Thursday...

The Tupac Show

Never can say goodbye:  The resurrection  of Makaveli  and what it says  about us Photo: Musion Systems Ltd. (U...

NYC: Fixing a Hole

Patty Schemel, Melissa Auf der Maur, Eric Erlandson and Courtney Love took the stage at Public Assembly in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, on April 14. The classic Hole lineup together for the first time in 15 years. YouTu...

Austin: SXSW: Xroads of culture

It’s maybe the one thing that could bring together Biz Stone and Bruce Springsteen, Norah Jones and LinkedIn CEO Reid Hoffman (in the video below). South by Southwest, the annual collision of music, technology and pop culture that’s on through next Sunday. The objective for many: to find the...

Iranian and American, in L.A.

Does Ahmedinajad know about this? The flashy, gold-plated antics of Iranian-American families in Los Angeles is the foundation for Shahs of Sunset, a new reality series debuting tonight on Bravo. The show offers a fresh look at Iranian culture that’s a long way from mullahs and ayatollahs,...

Channels of diversity

Magic Johnson and Sean (Diddy) Combs are setting the pace for a spate of new television channels aimed at African American viewers who, according to Nielsen, watch more TV than just about anyone else. With these new outlets of black life set to explode in the next few years, how will they change...

Notorious: Life after death

It’s been 15 years since the Notorious B.I.G. (Christopher Wallace), perhaps the most lyrically, rhythmically gifted rapper in the game, was slain in a hail of gunfire outside the Petersen Automotive Museum in Los Angeles. His killer remains at large to this day. Rachel Shapiro of The...

Monkees’ Davy Jones dies at 66

The diminutive British heartthrob, a singer for the made-for-TV rock band that defied expectations, achieved chart-topping success and survived a Beatles-besotted public in the mid 1960’s, succumbed to a heart attack early Wednesday morning near his home in Florida. The Huffington Post reports. Photo:...