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In Harlem the roots of the rock ‘n’ roll family tree are 100 years strong. THE Apollo Theatre’s place in music history dates from 1914,...

BY KRISTI YORK WOOTEN FOR THE ECONOMIST THE Apollo Theatre’s place in music history dates from 1914, when the building opened as a...

BY KRISTI YORK WOOTEN FOR THE HUFFINGTON POST Guess what? The AIDS epidemic isn’t over. It’s true that numbers of overall AIDS deaths...

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BY KRISTI YORK WOOTEN FOR THE HUFFINGTON POST When Spanish painter and photographer Martin Frias asks me who my favorite rock band is, I...

IN THE opening sequence of the documentary “Mr Blue Sky: The Story of Jeff Lynne and ELO”, Mr Lynne, a British musician, saunters through...

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AT A music hall in Atlanta, a few hundred glowing iPhones bob to the rhythm of a strumming guitar. Glen Hansard, an Irish singer, is on...

BY KRISTI YORK WOOTEN FOR THE WALL STREET JOURNAL Southern Gothic once referred exclusively to scribes and literature from the land of...

BY KRISTI YORK WOOTEN FOR THE ECONOMIST CANCER isn’t cool. Nile Rodgers’s diagnosis in late 2010 proved especially baffling for him. A...

CANCER isn’t cool. Nile Rodgers’s diagnosis in late 2010 proved especially baffling for him. A 59-year-old music producer, he was putting...

BY KRISTI YORK WOOTEN FOR THE ECONOMIST PAUL MCCARTNEY is one of the most important figures of 20th-century music. Therein lies the...

PAUL MCCARTNEY is one of the most important figures of 20th-century music. Therein lies the dilemma. Can the 69-year-old former Beatle...

For Howard Zinn, some things never change. Backstage at the Atlanta Film Festival, after screening his new documentary, The People Speak,...

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 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...

Onstage at a Tulsa, Okla., nightclub in March, hometown singer Taylor Hanson shimmies to the beat of a dozen catchy rave-ups. Dressed in...