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Duane Davis, 60, appeared briefly in a Las Vegas court on Thursday. His arraignment has been delayed a second time until Nov. 2.

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Arraignment delayed again for suspect charged with murdering Tupac Shakur

In a surprise delay, Duane "Keffe D" Davis did not enter a plea in a Las Vegas courtroom Thursday morning, because he didn't have a lawyer. Davis is expected back in court on Nov. 2.

October 20, 2023
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  • Anastasia Tsioulcas
A 24-year-old piano prodigy, Jahari Stampley, has won one of the most prestigious awards in jazz. The competition held by the Herbie Hancock Institute is widely seen as anointing new stars.

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  • Music News

Pianist Jahari Stampley just won a prestigious jazz competition — he's only 24

A 24-year-old piano prodigy, Jahari Stampley, has won one of the most prestigious awards in jazz. The competition held by the Herbie Hancock Institute is widely seen as anointing new stars.

October 18, 2023
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  • Neda Ulaby
Carla Bley performs in Nice, France, in 2009.

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Carla Bley, prolific and expansive jazz pianist, dies at 87

Bley's pieces could be ethereally beautiful or subversively brash, but always found a grandeur without tilting into pretension.

October 18, 2023
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  • Andrey Henkin
John Malkovich says theater is like surfing. Actors might think they are the wave — but they're not: "The wave is created by the collision between the material and the public. You ride the wave or you don't." Malkovich is pictured above in <em>The Music Critic.</em>

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Even Beethoven got bad reviews. John Malkovich reads them aloud as 'The Music Critic'

A new live stage show features actor John Malkovich transformed into some of the meanest music critics ever — in real reviews skewering the work of great composers like Beethoven, Brahms and Chopin.

October 17, 2023
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  • Anastasia Tsioulcas
The investigation into the murder of Tupac Shakur (on stage here in 1994) has long evaded closure. But in the last month, an arrest in connection with his shooting on Sept. 7, 1996, has brought the case back into the spotlight.

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  • Music

Can the Tupac Shakur murder trial salvage any justice from a 27-year-old case?

The arrest of Duane Davis in the 1996 shooting of the rapper in Las Vegas is a huge development in a case that has evaded closure, as competing narratives and mythologies have emerged in its place.

October 17, 2023
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  • Sheldon Pearce

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How Corinne Bailey Rae and Theaster Gates are preserving Black culture

On her album, Black Rainbows, Bailey Rae was inspired by the art, books and magazines at the Stony Island Arts Bank, a repository for Black history on Chicago's South Side, created by Gates.

October 17, 2023
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  • Lara Downes
Polish countertenor Jakub Józef Orliński also breakdances, two skills showcased in Semele at Munich's Bavarian State Opera this year before it heads to New York's Metropolitan Opera next season.

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  • Performing Arts

From opera to breakdancing and back again: Jakub Józef Orliński fuses two worlds

Polish countertenor and breakdancer Jakub Józef Orliński talks about his new album with Il Pomo d'Oro orchestra.

October 16, 2023
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  • Olivia Hampton
Smokey Robinson performs a Tiny Desk concert.

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Smokey Robinson: Tiny Desk Concert

If there was ever an artist the word "legend" applies to, it would be Smokey Robinson.

October 16, 2023
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  • Mitra I. Arthur
Grammy award winner Lila Downs is known to sing about love, loss and her tricultural identity. But her latest album, <em>La Sánchez</em>, is her most personal yet.

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After her partner's death, Lila Downs records 'La Sánchez,' her most personal album

Downs and saxophonist Paul Cohen had been together for almost 30 years. She says her latest album is therapy for the soul.

October 15, 2023
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  • Betto Arcos

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  • Music

Getting older, with — or without? — The National

What happens when the band that has soundtracked the milestones of your adulthood suddenly feels like it has nothing left to give you?

October 14, 2023
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  • Grayson Haver Currin
Common accepts an award from the Georgia Alliance for Progress on Oct. 12, 2023.

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Georgia Alliance for Progress honors rapper Common at annual democracy dinner

The actor and hip-hop star was recognized at the 2023 Democracy Dinner for his work to encourage voter participation in the 2020 election.

October 13, 2023
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  • Kristi York Wooten
<em></em>Taylor Swift's Eras tour film is precisely as advertised: nothing more and nothing less than a perfectly edited recording of an extraordinary show in all its technical, happiness-inducing splendor.

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  • Movie Reviews

Now in theaters: A three-hour testament to Taylor Swift's titan era

The Eras Tour film is precisely as advertised: nothing more and nothing less than a pristine recording of a record-shattering concert spectacle. But will it really be a savior for the cinema industry?

October 13, 2023
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  • Bilal Qureshi
Becky G performs a Tiny Desk concert.

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  • Music

Becky G: Tiny Desk Concert

The stripped down sound of some of Becky G's biggest hits offered a rare view of her artistry.

October 13, 2023
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  • Felix Contreras
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  • Obituaries

Rudolph Isley, a founding member of the Isley Brothers, has died at 84

He was among the Isleys inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1992.

October 12, 2023
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  • The Associated Press
Taylor Swift at the Los Angeles premiere of the "Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour" concert film. The movie has already broken theatrical pre-sale records.

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  • Music

Taylor Swift Eras Tour Concert Film arrives a day early as reviews come in

In an Instagram post, the pop star announced that her highly anticipated concert film will be released today, earlier than expected.

October 12, 2023
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