Remembering André Watts, the American pianist who opened doors of possibility : NPR

Remembering André Watts, the American pianist who opened doors of possibility : NPR

Pianist André Watts, age 16, in rehearsal with the New York Philharmonic for one of Leonard Bernstein’s Young People’s Concerts. CBS Photo Archive/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption CBS Photo Archive/Getty Images Pianist André Watts, […]

Like BARBIE and OPPENHEIMER, These Iconic Movies Opened the Same Weekend

Margot Robbie as Barbie (L) and Cillian Murphy as Oppenheimer (R)

The internet is having a blast right now, speculating which upcoming high-profile summer movie is going to win its respective weekend. Will it be Christopher Nolan’s gritty WWII period piece/biopic Oppenheimer, or will it be […]

Dorothy Ashby was the pioneer harpist who opened up the instrument to Black musicians like me | Music

Brandee Younger performing in 2019.

I began playing harp at 11 and the traditional path to follow with the instrument was the classical music one, where all the players I saw or studied were white. I found it quite an […]

‘I would probably be delighted’ – how Christine McVie opened up about wanting to rejoin Fleetwood Mac | Pop and rock

Christine McVie with Stevie Nicks in 1987

It was strange enough being in Christine McVie’s flat – high up and hovering over a stretch of the River Thames in Battersea with an upright piano in the corner of the room (oh, to […]

Leslie Jordan Opened Up About Being Embraced by Nashville Before Death – Rolling Stone

Watch Leslie Jordan Sing About Going to Heaven a Day Before His Death: ‘Love. Light. Leslie’

Country music star was one of the last things Leslie Jordan added to his long list of joy-bringing talents before his unexpected death on Monday, Oct. 24, following a fatal car crash in Los Angeles […]

How Dating Prince Harry Opened Meghan Markle’s Eyes to Negative Connotation of Ambition

How Dating Prince Harry Opened Meghan Markle's Eyes to Negative Connotation of Ambition

“Apparently ambition is a terrible, terrible thing — for a woman, that is — according to some.” For Meghan Markle, “ambition” wasn’t a “dirty word” until she started dating one of the world’s most eligible […]

‘It changed lives and opened minds’: a visual record of the birth of acid house | Art and design books

1) Future @ The Soundshaft, March 1988

Late one Thursday in March 1988, Dave Swindells walked into a tiny, sweat-drenched club in central London and found himself present at the birth of a new cultural revolution. The venue, behind Charing Cross station, […]