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The soul singer, songwriter and producer, who died on Tuesday at 51, released three studio albums of meticulously constructed, vocally ambitious, genre-crossing music. By Jon Pareles In his music, ...

This 1972 one-hit wonder has been rumored to be about a New Jersey spinster from the 18th century. Elliot Lurie says otherwise.

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Chicago native Kenya LeNoir Messer arrives in the midst of a $75 million expansion at the Detroit cultural treasure.

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John Logan is an award-winning screenwriter and playwright who brought Baz Luhrmann's magical movie Moulin Rouge! to the stage. John Byrne talks to him as the show wends it way to Dublin.