Annette Gordon-Reed won the National Book Award for nonfiction for ?The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family,? while Peter Matthiessen won the fiction award for ?Shadow Country.?
Eli Broad, the philanthropist whose gift financed a new contemporary-art building this year at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, is planning to build another exhibition space for his vast collection.
?60 Minutes? on CBS has been the most-watched program in the nation the last two weeks ? including the full episode on Sunday devoted to Steve Kroft?s interview with Barack and Michelle Obama.
Even before the full board of New York City Opera learned that its proposed savior, Gerard Mortier, was saying goodbye, its chairwoman had turned to a man known in the arts as a turnaround specialist.
, with a proclamation for his lifes work during the Stated Council Meeting on Wednesday, November 19th at City Hall William 'Bill' James Edwards Lee III was born on July 23. The jazz musician, composer, educator and acoustic bassist was born in Snow
Breaking into song at rallies, Chvez draws applause and occasional laughter from his red-clad supporters. One of his favorites is a folkloric ode he sings to a 19th-century rebel leader he claims as his great-grandfather. It appears on a compact disc
[ tickets ], who will cap their 2008 US tour on their home turf in Nashville tonight (11/18), have mapped a new batch of American dates for early next year. So far, the group's 2009 schedule comprises a half-dozen late-September shows, including a
Alt-rockers [ tickets ] will close out 2008 with a headlining trek before hooking up with Motley Crue's 'Saints of Los Angeles 2009 Winter Tour.' The Vancouver trio is set to start Nov. 25 in Poughkeepsie, NY, and traipse through US clubs and theaters
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