Born in the Bronx during social and economic struggle, hip hop turned protest into creativity and grew into a worldwide ...

A son of Puerto Rican parents who grew up in the Bronx, Barretto moved between jazz and Latin music with relentless ...

In 1975, Van McCoy and the Soul City Symphony topped the charts with the song “The Hustle.” The disco/dance song was released ...

Dancer Michael Sakamoto on “time/life/beauty,” his collaboration with DJ Spooky that fuses hip-hop and butoh to honor the late Japanese musical innovator.

Robert Carradine’s family previously said his death by suicide followed a long and “valiant struggle” with bipolar disorder.

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The unhinged ex-CUNY professor who savagely held a machete to a Post reporter's neck went on a rambling tirade after the newspaper called her out on the front page last Sunday for her $407,000 ...

Design Department. Inspired by the XLCR cafe racer from the late 1970s, the RMCR is H-D’s modern take on the cafe racer style ...

The New York Yankees have received word that a former player who owns several history-making MLB milestones has died.

This week, 26,000 anxious eighth graders will learn their fate: Did they get into one of New York City’s eight specialized ...

Back in the 1970s and 1980s, one would have been hard-pressed to say that the then-burgeoning punk and new wave rock scenes would define both decades (although you can have disco prominent in the mid ...

Prolific playwright Migdalia Cruz knows the value of a teacher to a writer, a person who, as she puts it during a recent interview, can “help you reveal yourself to yourself.” Teachers can come in ...