As his 90th-birthday tour approaches its finale, the blues legend reflects on learning from Muddy Waters and B.B. King, ...

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Maintaining a long-term relationship in the entertainment industry is notoriously difficult, yet many Black actors have ...

Don Was’s career has been many things over the years, from musician to star producer to record-label head at Blue Note. But ...

Celebrate the release of their new album, Kitchen Witch's Georgie Cosson spoke with The Note about the album, the local scene ...

Gen. Joseph Hooker was one of the more colorful and complicated Union generals of the Civil War. He fought in several ...

Rickie Lee Jones has worked with everyone from Randy Newman to Dr. John to Tori Amos, so she will have a lot of ground to cover when she plays the Rio Theatre Thursday. BEAT will be playing the music ...

According to the DNC, the White House used $20 million allocated to Customs and Border Protection for campaign ads broadcast nationally, including during professional and college football games.

NEW YORK – Two months past his 90th birthday, Buddy Guy is still up for a little bragging, a lot of cursing and a long night of partying. The blues great was celebrated Thursday night with a sold-out ...

Big Pete Pearson is turning 90 on Oct. 4. And as the legendary Phoenix bluesman is pleased to report, “I'm not planning on stopping. I just go ahead and shout those blues the way I always have.” His ...

Nicknamed 'Fighting Joe,' Union general Joseph Hooker commanded the Army of the Potomac and lost to Lee at Chancellorsville ...

John P. Hooker BARRE — John “Joe” P. Hooker, 80, a longtime resident of Beckley Street, passed away peacefully on Monday, August 31, 2026, at Central Vermont Medical Center with his loving family ...