B.B. King—the world’s most famous blues musician—died peacefully in his sleep at his home in Las Vegas. He was 89.
99Online campaigners are pushing to give SF’s annual Hugo Awards to popular space yarns, not more literary fiction or tales of diversity.
Taran Killam, who had a role in “12 Years a Slave” and has published a comic book, is becoming the first “Saturday Night Live” cast member to star in a musical.
A Paris exhibition shows how hip-hop spread to France, the Middle East and North Africa—and provided a beat for the Arab Spring.
Camped out on Randall’s Island, Frieze New York hosts nearly 200 art galleries from around the world, all angling to lure eyes and ideally great sums of money with entrancing and bewildering works of contemporary art.
David Letterman, who steps down next week after more than 30 years in late-night TV, evolved from zany oddball to great American broadcaster, one without peer in his ability to segue from serious stuff to slapstick.