Jazz-funk poet Gil Scott-Heron always tackled big societal issues within his work, but 1974's 'The Bottle' remains perhaps his darkest and most profound.

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Dorough’s colourful imagination, friendly, hippyish voice and way with a melody made him perfect for children’s music. “Three is a Magic Number” must be the prettiest, grooviest song ever written ...

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President Nolan Alejandro Cloutier said that when he looks back at the past four years, it's the people who mattered most.

The history of humans and nature interacting makes Chicago's Lake Michigan shoreline a perfect laboratory for a course that ...

Caption: The grave of American rock singer and poet Jim Morrison stands in France’s most famous graveyard, Le Pere LaChaise cemetery, in a photo taken Dec. 8, 1982. The bust disappeared in 1988, and ...

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The latest runway show by Australian designer Alix Higgins stirred accusations of cultural appropriation – and debate over the line between tribute and exploitation in the industry.

The Observer's crusading founding editor—a prolific author and agitator who helped animate the spirit of a true Texas ...

Like Price, William Blake was a ‘counterculture prophet ... five years ago at which the great scholar David Erdman was lecturing brilliantly on Blake’s poetry; in the audience his wife, Virginia, a ...