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.
- Touring By Mitchell Peters, L.A. Ticketmaster Entertainment may be experimenting with eliminating convenience charges for ticket purchases, but 'they're not going to die off entirely,' according to Ticketmaster Entertainment senior VP, assistant
YouTube is set to break into the world of live streamed video. For now, you'll have to settle for the same-old prerecorded versions of high-school girls performing badly choreographed lip-sync routines and skateboarding catastrophes, as the site's live
Retailers, record labels and bands will once again come together to remember an era when music fans had the dignity to actually legally purchase their music. The second annual Record Store Day, a promotional holiday of sorts organized by the National
Pete Doherty might be moving on from recreational drugs to recreational sports. The Babyshambles front man, who's better known off stage for scoring bags, not goals, is considering signing up with a rec-level soccer team, the Queen's Head Rangers, in
The former members of Blink 182 don't hate each other so bad anymore. After drummer Travis Barker was in September and producer Jerry Finn passed away, the members of Blink 182 are letting some of the old issues be water under the bridge. '(Bassist) Tom
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