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Twitter queen Dionne Warwick discusses music, singing with Chance the Rapper and chiding Snoop Dogg

Before she became one of the biggest-selling female solo artists of the 20th century, Dionne Warwick was a teenaged piano major who earned tuition money as a background singer on records by The Drifters, Dinah Washington, Brook Benton, Solomon Burke and other vocal greats.

Tribune News Service

Well noted: A selection of some music-themed gifts this year

The Associated Press is recommending for music lovers gifts including vinyl box sets by Neil Young, Billie Holiday and Ella Fitzgerald, Paul McCartney and heavy metal icon Iron Maiden

The Independent UK

The country’s going to the dogs, but at least the police have cleared the M25

The Met says Just Stop Oil are a tiny minority causing ‘disproportionate’ disruption. Isn’t environmental Armageddon enough justification?

The Guardian - UK

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We studied the 'bibles' of jazz standards – and found sexism lurking in the strangest place

We are two female jazz singers, jazz researchers and lovers of jazz. And we have discovered jazz gave us another shared experience – sexism.

The Conversation

Grammy and Tony Award winner Dee Dee Bridgewater to star in Ella Fitzgerald musical developed by Anna Deavere Smith

NEW YORK — The life and times of the First Lady of Song has been turned into a musical — with a powerhouse team developing it for Broadway.

Tribune News Service

Jean Smart is holding on to optimism ... crying to Whitney Houston helps

LOS ANGELES — Jean Smart just pulled her car over to the side of the road. She needed a moment. Whitney Houston's soaring power ballad "I Have Nothing" is playing on KOST-FM ("love songs on the Cooooast "), a song that ranks as Smart's "all-time singalong if you want to…

Los Angeles Times

Robert Englund’s 'Stranger Things 4' cameo, explained: Who is Victor Creel?

The horror icon makes a short but pivotal appearance in the new season of the Netflix series. Learn more about Robert Englund's Victor Creel in 'Stranger Things 4.'

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Review: 'Constructing a Nervous System,' by Margo Jefferson

NONFICTION: In her second memoir, Margo Jefferson comes close — but not close enough — to her own story.

Tribune News Service

Lionel J. Washington Sr., 103, was a devoted family man full of dignity

Lionel J. Washington Sr. passed away peacefully as the world continued to obsess over Will Smith’s slap. The Oscar-winning actor could learn a thing or two from my treasured Uncle Lionel.

Chicago Sun-Times

Sound engineer Mike King, dead at 85, was there for radio’s glory days, including the glorious ‘Chickenman’

CHICAGO — Many years ago, sitting in his office high atop the Wrigley Building, Mike King was telling me about the many people he had worked with in his long career as a sound engineer — a star-studded crowd that included Jonathan Winters, Burgess Meredith, Bob Newhart, Ellen Barkin, Dionne…

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