Barry White

Daum: Amazon's algorithm of love

2013-02-14 00:00:00

Just in time for Valentine's Day, Amazon, the behemoth online retailer and knower of all habits and tastes, has released a list of America's 20 most romantic cities. It's high time. Gandhi might have said the best measure of a society is how it treats...

Review: R. Kelly turns it on at Nokia Theatre

2012-11-03 14:52:00

R. Kelly had already been onstage for half an hour Friday night at Nokia Theatre when he announced that it was time to say what was on his mind. “I [conceived] three kids listening to my own music,” sang the R&B star in apparent improvisation...

Don Cornelius dies at 75; creator of 'Soul Train'

2012-02-02 00:00:00

The idea was simple — but groundbreaking: Create a live showcase for black music, modeled on "American Bandstand." Don Cornelius pulled $400 from his own pocket to launch the dance show on a local Chicago TV station in 1970. As host and executive...

Live review: Aimee Mann at the Wiltern

2011-12-12 04:34:45

Heavy D dies at 44; singer who shaped rap music

2011-11-09 19:54:00

Rapper and actor Heavy D, who played an influential role in shaping rap music in the late '80s and early '90s with a fusion of New Jack Swing and reggae, has died. He was 44. Heavy D, who was born Dwight Arrington Myers, died Tuesday in the...

Footage from Kanye West's unaired 'hip-hop Muppet show' leaks

2011-09-15 21:36:16

Don Cornelius and the 'Soul Train' still grooving 40 years later

2010-09-04 16:35:34

ABC pumps up 'Great Pumpkin' with rapping Charlie Brown

2010-10-28 16:34:30

Album review: Quincy Jones' 'Q: Soul Bossa Nostra'

2010-11-09 16:34:13

Mildred Pierce, Part 3: Fight or fight

2011-04-04 16:36:34

The new rap language: Recent and notable hip-hop downloads from Fiend, Danny Brown, Killer Mike and more

2011-01-17 16:35:55

'Hot Stuff: Disco and the Remaking of American Culture' by Alice Echols

2010-04-11 00:00:00

Hot Stuff Disco and the Remaking of American Culture Alice Echols W.W. Norton: 338 pp., $26.95 Recently, I attended a wedding reception during which a 10-year-old boy, to entertain the adults on the dance floor, started making the point-to-the-sky...

Wearing a crazy wig (and a few extra pounds) Bosh belted out "You're the First, the Last, My Everything," while pointing to his teammates.

2013-01-21 20:10:00

R. Kelly, the Pied Piper of RB, has come a long way since his '90s career beginnings with Public Announcement and as a solo artist singing about bumping and grinding and other sexual pleasures.

2012-10-18 11:42:00

Bart Avery, owner of Bravery Brewing Company, and Barry White, both of Lancaster, begin working to fix a mural of a flag in Hollywood Hills that was vandalized Thursday by a tagger.

2012-06-24 10:58:57