The Big Apple” refers to New York City, but the nickname stems from a popular 1930’s jazz dance, born at the “Big Apple” club ...

1950 – Cold War: Harry Gold is sentenced to 30 years in jail for helping Klaus Fuchs pass information about the Manhattan Project to the Soviet Union. His testimony is later instrumental in the ...

From 2015 through 2020, a personal research project included my reading dozens of jazz books and related media. They included mainstays such as the massive reference The Penguin Guide to Jazz ...

“If I had my way, I would hang all Jews in the country,” roared Ralph Ninfo in a 1938 as pro-Mussolini Italian American fascists and pro-Hitler German American Bund members met at a Bund rally in New ...

ARMADILLO WILLY’S: After 42 years in business, this venerable barbecue chain is down to one location, in San Mateo. But ...

Mrs. Joanna Eva Coleman George, 104 today, sports a red bonnet and a coral and blue floral morning robe, as her nurse, Josephine, wheels her into the elegant living room at her daughter's Hotel Africa ...

This is the biggest World Cup yet, one set amid the political machinations of Donald Trump and the awkward posturing of FIFA ...

Twyla Tharp led the way with her distinct brand of American classicism, along with other artists who stepped it up.

A music and dance collective has grown beyond day parties into a full-fledged cultural community — bringing its unfettered ...

When theater and movie producers in the1920s and early 1930s needed actors and actresses to learn modern dance, they often ...

The white folks had all the courts, all the guns, all the hounds, all the railroads, all the telegraph wires, all the newspapers, all the money and nearly all the land – and we had only our ignorance, ...