For the novelist Rebecca Makkai, writing blurbs had become nearly a full-time job. She explains why blurbs matter — and why ...

Beware the rise of ‘Marxist nationalism’. As Australian ex-PM Kevin Rudd explains in his new study, On Xi Jinping, China has imperial dreams ...

Southern rock and country music has always been part of Black Label Society leader and Ozzy Osbourne right-hand-man Zakk Wylde’s DNA. But 2016’s solo album Book Of Shadows 2 found Zakk leaning into ...

Happy February, DC! Take your Valentine to a romantic R&B concert this month, or groove to the beats of local musician ...

ACTS Performing Arts Center welcomes Grammy-winning artist Steve Leslie on Friday, who will be singing the songs of James ...

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Sir Simon Rattle celebrates his 70th birthday with the LSO in a concert of British music: Vaughan Williams, Tippett and the world première of Mark-Anthony Turnage's guitar concerto Sir Simon ...

Simon Barnett, who returns to More FM on Monday, and Newstalk ZB's Mike Hosking. More FM’s ‘Hail Mary’ move: Can Simon Barnett pull it out of a ratings slide? Inside radio’s renewed ...

For the 2nd concert of their Barbican stopover, Gustavo Dudamel and his orchestra are remembering home as the vibrant Latino vibes of Riccardo Lorenz and Gonzalo Grau encounter fate-full Tchaikovsky.

Who: Better known to his listeners as Josh, the 34-year-old is a radio deejay who hosts Kiss92’s The Owls With Joshua Simon ... collections of his work on piano. I also got Germany-born British ...

The name’s Schama, Simon Schama . . . Schaken ... And you thought the books were just rip-snorting thrillers soaked in vodka martinis and sex. How wrong Shirley Bassey was when she called ...