On July 13, 1985, Africa became a brand. The image of a starving Ethiopian girl named Birhan Woldu flickered across TV screens as Paul...

BY KRISTI YORK WOOTEN FOR THE ATLANTIC The Southern capital has set the scene for dystopian thrillers such as Divergent and The Walking...

THE ECONOMIST THREE decades before One Direction, Ellie Goulding and others added their voices and carefully mussed-up hair to “Do They...

BY KRISTI YORK WOOTEN FOR THE ECONOMIST “NOSTALGIA”, the latest album from Annie Lennox, the British singer-songwriter, recalls an era of...

BY KRISTI YORK WOOTEN FOR THE HUFFINGTON POST When Howard Jones asked his fans on Facebook to wear orange to his performances this...

BY KRISTI YORK WOOTEN FOR THE HUFFINGTON POST Photo by Ian Webber. “Is this cheating on Tracey? I dunno,” Ben Watt asked. He felt a...

BY KRISTI YORK WOOTEN FOR THE HUFFINGTON POST Karl Wallinger is sitting on the running board of his tour van and smoking a cigarette. He...

BY KRISTI YORK WOOTEN FOR ORIGIN MAGAZINE Rufus Wainwright is an enigmatic singer from a family of Canadian-American musicians. He...

BY KRISTI YORK WOOTEN FOR THE HUFFINGTON POST Abner Ramirez and Amanda Sudano, better known as LA-based music duo Johnnyswim, released...

BY KRISTI YORK WOOTEN FOR THE HUFFINGTON POST First, let me set the tone: Imagine you’re walking around in downtown Portland, Oregon....

BY KRISTI YORK WOOTEN FOR THE ECONOMIST JIMMY CARTER, the 39th president of the United States, is known for staunch opinions on matters...

BY KRISTI YORK WOOTEN FOR THE HUFFINGTON POST Over the past month, I’ve been thinking a lot about Claude Monet. Partly because I live in...

BY KRISTI YORK WOOTEN FOR THE HUFFINGTON POST In reading and participating in the exchange about aid to Africa (in particular, the one...

BY KRISTI YORK WOOTEN FOR THE HUFFINGTON POST The rooftop of the private Soho House in New York’s Meatpacking District is the perfect...

BY KRISTI YORK WOOTEN FOR NEWSWEEK Onstage at a Tulsa, Okla., nightclub in March, hometown singer Taylor Hanson shimmies to the beat of a...

BY KRISTI YORK WOOTEN FOR NEWSWEEK The fashion industry wants everything skinny—except, of course, its magazines. While thin models...

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BY KRISTI YORK WOOTEN FOR NEWSWEEK Just because he’s riffed his way into our collective consciousness with no-frills all-American rock...

BY KRISTI YORK WOOTEN FOR NEWSWEEK Jakob Dylan says he knows what reviewers will write about his first solo recording, the Rick...

BY KRISTI YORK WOOTEN FOR NEWSWEEK If you’re annoyed by those relentlessly happy people who put smiley faces in e-mails, Aimee Mann’s new...