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Sep 02 2008
The Hot 8 Brass Band has seen its share of hard times. Three members of the New Orleans-based band have died from gun violence within the last 10 years. But after an appearance in Spike Lee’s “When the Levees Broke,”...

Jul 14 2008
Pick up David Sedaris' new book and you're staring at death. If the van Gogh painting of a skeleton gracing the cover doesn't say it clearly enough, the fact that the skull is smoking a cigarette should.

Jul 04 2008
It was an idyllic Wednesday evening in Madison Square Park—still air, verdant grass, a relaxed crowd, with barefoot children milling about—when Cia Leigh Cherryholmes got to singing about war and God...

Jun 15 2008
The upcoming season at the Modlin Center for the Arts at the University of Richmond has a broad international touch.

Jun 13 2008
Stephen Sondheim You know you love him. How could you not adore the man and worship his relentless, artistic chutzpah? Even if you gripe at cocktail parties about how you detest all things Sondheim (blasphemy!), you probably still admire him underneath it all. Most Stephen Sondheim naysayers doth protest way too much.

Jun 09 2008
Whether he's lancing boils, getting crabs from thrift store pants or sitting in a hospital waiting room dressed only in his underwear, one thing is clear: David Sedaris is not shy about sharing those embarrassing, cringe-worthy incidents that members of the general population tend to save for diaries or therapists.

Jun 08 2008
IN preparation for the interview David Sedaris cleaned up his living room. Which is to say, he removed the magazines — The New Yorker, The Atlantic Monthly, The New York Review of Books, GQ — from the coffee table of his one-bedroom walk-up here, stashed them in a cupboard and closed the door. This left the room practically naked.

Jun 01 2008
Garrison Keillor returned to downtown Muskegon on Monday night, musing soft and wry of Americana before a full house at the Frauenthal Theater. Holding the stage for an uninterrupted 1-1/2 hours, the 65-year-old creator of the radio variety show "A Prairie Home Companion" regaled an audience of 1,725, the majority of which appeared to be his age or in the vicinity.

Jun 01 2008
Much has been written and spoken about the genius of Chris Thile and after another close encounter last night at Alexandria's legendary listening room The Birchmere, it's only become clearer that the truth supports the hyperbole.

Jun 01 2008
With his new collection of essays, ''When You Are Engulfed in Flames,'' America's favorite memoirist defends his right to exaggerate in the name of humor

Jun 01 2008
Percussionist Matthew Duvall is a rare bird. He went away to school at age 13. He attended a prestigious conservatory before even considering music as a career. And in February he became a member of an even more rarified breed...

Jun 01 2008
On a balmy evening here Thursday, the dozen men of Chanticleer, dressed in identical stylish dark suits, began a slow procession down the aisle of the San Luis Obispo de Tolosa mission, founded in 1772. It was a solemn, beautiful, memorable moment. They were unfurling, for the first time, some of our musical DNA.

Jun 01 2008
Premieres of quartets by Krzysztof Penderecki and Dick Hyman by the Shanghai Quartet and of an electroacoustic piece by Toivo Tulev and "Slide," a multimedia work by actor-singer Rinde Eckert and composer-performer Steve Mackey, by eighth blackbird highlight classical programs next season at the University of Richmond’s Modlin Arts Center.

Jun 01 2008
The author of "Me Talk Pretty One Day," "Naked," and "Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim" is back with another collection of hilarious essays. David Sedaris's "When You Are Engulfed in Flames" (Little, Brown) lands in bookstores this week. Sedaris follows with a 30-city U.S. tour. He spoke to NEWSWEEK's Susanna Schrobsdorff about why people tip him at book signings and whether he'll marry Hugh, his boyfriend of 17 years.

Jun 01 2008
Cherryholmes knows how to bend a few rules to create a modern bluegrass sound while staying clearly true to the basics, and the family shows it on “Cherryholmes II Black and White,” released a year ago.

Jun 01 2008
The audience at the Artist Series presentation of the Shanghai Quartet got a direct illustration of why writing, playing and listening to music for two violins, a viola and a cello have obsessed musicians and music lovers for more than two centuries.