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The nominations for the 38th NAACP Image Awards were announced Tuesday during a press conference with Vanessa L. Williams, Isaiah Washington, Chandra Wilson, Shaun Robinson and DB Woodside. The celebrities joined Bruce S Gordon, President and CEO of...

The Grammys isn't supposed to feel real. Like any awards show, it upholds the fantasy of glitz and glamour that conceals the hard work and often bitter luck behind show business success. The night's performers and winners offer moments of real...

There are the Grammy Awards, which are about music, more or less, and there is the telecast of the Grammy Awards, which is about three-plus hours of prime time television. As an event in the real world, it expresses the same market forces, internal...

Smallest "big" moment: Given the hype leading up to the Police reunion that opened the show, it seemed that Sting, Andy Summers and Stewart Copeland would be able to cure world hunger or restart Palestinian-Israeli peace talks. In reality, their so-so...

The 800-pound gorilla of Chicago's crowded festival season takes over Grant Park this weekend. Lollapalooza ranks among the biggest pop-music events ever to play the city, encompassing 130 bands, 69 acres, 8 stages and 3 days. It will also mark another...

Remember when "chicks" used to be pejorative? No more, not after the Dixie Chicks steamrolled the competition at the 49th annual Grammy Awards on Sunday night in front of 12,000 at the Staples Center. The Chicks ran the table in the top categories,...

The new N.W.A retrospective "The Best of N.W.A: The Strength of Street Knowledge" raises an interesting question about when is the best time to measure an album's greatness. Is it the week the album is released or two decades later when you can see how...

Mary J. Blige could be without the most Grammy nominations of any artist this year, but it might not be as gratifying for her. Already an owner of three of the awards, the R&B star has eight more bids, mainly related to her chart-topping album "The...

Trombones and sousaphones bellowed hysterically. Saxophones brayed, badly out of tune. Drums rumbled behind or ahead of the beat. Considering that the biggest game of their football season was five days away, prospects did not look good for the most...

MOST pop acts would love to have a hit single, but be careful what you wish for. Topping the chart can be hazardous to an artist's health, especially an out-of-nowhere hit by an unknown. It can make a career, of course, but it can also overexpose the...

by Mark Silva That half-hour of prime time TV that Barack Obama is buying midweek gets a preview from the Saturday Night Live crew, which suggests it's time to "play it safe'' and go for a "variety show.'' Featuring Bill......

All that noise and no singing -- that's not music. That's what they said about Glenn Miller! Probably not, but people rioted over Igor Stravinsky's "The Rite of Spring." My point here is that I've heard some old-people music, so you should trust me. Try...