Kora player Sona Jobarteh: ‘I didn’t want to be told: you are good, for a woman’ | Music

Sona Jobarteh with her griot father Sanjally at Førde festival.

In west Africa’s griot tradition, it’s men who play instruments while women sing. But Sona Jobarteh was determined to change that and asked her father to teach her to play: today she is the first […]

Jennifer Grey Says This Ex “Didn’t Feel Comfortable” With Her Success

Matthew Broderick and Jennifer Grey at the 1987 Oscars

Jennifer Grey’s memoir is titled Out of the Corner, not only as a reference to the line from her most famous movie, Dirty Dancing, but also because it tells stories of self-discovery. And one way in […]