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George Clooney and Gladys Knight are among the 2022 Kennedy Center honorees
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The recipients of the 45th Kennedy Center Honors have been announced. The performing artists recognized for their lifetime contributions to American culture include actor and filmmaker George Clooney; contemporary Christian… Read More
Street Symphony plays in harmony with Skid Row’s ‘sacred spaces’
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Some of the most beautiful music being performed in Los Angeles right now is happening on Skid Row. Street Symphony is an organization bringing professional musicians to clinics, homeless shelters and jails clustered… Read More
New Ralph Lauren collection explores collegiate style on historically Black campuses
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WASHINGTON, D.C. (NPR) — A young woman in a powder blue sweater glances up dreamily from a book she’s perusing on a pristine campus lawn. Four impossibly strong-jawed college men… Read More
After Protest, Whitney Museum Cancels Show By Artists It Meant To Celebrate
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One of the country’s leading museums of American art, the Whitney in New York City, has canceled an upcoming show on responses to systemic racism amid a storm of online protest.
Larry Kramer, Pioneering AIDS Activist And Writer, Dies At 84
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Kramer was a writer with an Oscar-nominated screenplay when his friends started dying mysteriously — galvanizing him to found the Gay Men’s Health Crisis, and later ACT UP, to combat AIDS.
Haute Pot: How High-End California Chefs Are Cashing In On Marijuana
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From TV series to cookbooks to cannabis-infused menus at upscale restaurants, pot cuisine is becoming an increasingly lucrative niche — and state and local laws are struggling to catch up.
NPR Newscaster Carl Kasell Dies At 84, After A Lifelong Career On-Air
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Kasell brought unflappable authority to the news, but he also had a lively sense of humor, revealed late in his career when he became the judge and scorekeeper for Wait Wait… Don’t Tell Me!