Category: ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Los Angeles County prosecutors declined Wednesday to charge Bill Cosby with sexually abusing two teenagers in 1965 and 2008, citing time limits and a lack of evidence. In this Nov. 6, 2014 file photo, entertainer Bill Cosby pauses during an interview in Washington about an upcoming exhibit. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File) The decision […]

The Whispers co-founder and singer, Nicholas Caldwell. NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Nicholas Caldwell, co-founder and singer with the California R&B group The Whispers, has died. He was 71. Willette Ballard, a representative for the group, said Caldwell died Tuesday of congestive heart failure at his San Francisco home. Formed in the San Francisco Bay area […]

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (AP) — Actress Kerry Washington has been named woman of the year by Harvard University’s Hasty Pudding Theatricals. In this Dec. 6, 2015 file photo, actress Kerry Washington arrives at the 2015 Kennedy Center Honors reception in the East Room of the White House in Washington. On Wednesday, Jan. 6, 2016, Hasty Pudding […]

Blues guitarist Long John Hunter PHOENIX (AP) — Blues guitarist Long John Hunter, who recorded seven solo albums in a 60-year career and was known internationally for his onstage showmanship, has died. He was 84. Hunter died in his sleep early Monday at his home in Phoenix, his family announced Tuesday on their Facebook page. […]

T. Geronimo Johnson BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — The 2015 Ernest J. Gaines Award for Literary Excellence is going to author T. Geronimo Johnson. Organizers said Tuesday that Johnson will receive the award at a Jan. 21 ceremony at the Manship Theatre in Baton Rouge. Johnson serves as visiting professor at the University of Iowa […]

NEW YORK (AP) — Visionary Canadian-born pianist Paul Bley, a pivotal figure in the avant-garde jazz movement known for his innovative trio and solo recordings, has died. He was 83. This undated photo provided by ECM Records shows the visionary Canadian-born pianist Paul Bley. Bley, a pivotal figure in the avant-garde jazz movement known for […]

This Oct. 26, 2009 file photo, comedian Bill Cosby, left, and his wife Camille appear at the John F. Kennedy Center for Performing Arts before Bill Cosby received the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor in Washington. (Jacquelyn Martin / AP) SPRINGFIELD, Mass. (AP) — A federal judge has agreed to postpone the deposition of […]

LAS VEGAS (AP) — Las Vegas police are investigating an allegation of battery against R&B singer Chris Brown. In this Friday, Dec. 18, 2015 file photo, Chris Brown performs at the Hollywood Palladium in Los Angeles. Las Vegas police are investigating an allegation of battery against R&B singer Chris Brown. Lt. Jeff Goodwin said authorities […]

In this November 2014 photo, Bill Cosby and his wife Camille tell a story about collecting on of the pieces in the exhibit, Conversations: African and African-American Artworks in Dialogue, at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African Art . (Evan Vucci / AP) BOSTON (AP) — A federal judge has denied a motion by Bill […]

LOS ANGELES (AP) — She began as a 1970s soul singer hyped as the next Aretha Franklin and peaked in the 1990s as an old-fashioned stylist and time-defying duet partner to her late father, Nat “King” Cole. In a Monday, March 2, 2015 file photo, singer Natalie Cole performs at “An Evening of SeriousFun Celebrating […]

Bill Cosby leaves the Cheltenham Township Police Department where he was processed after being arraigned on a felony charge of aggravated indecent assault Wednesday, Dec. 30, 2015, in Elkins Park, Pa. Cosby was charged Wednesday with drugging and sexually assaulting a woman at his home in 2004. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke) PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Bill Cosby […]