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2 weeks ago | 
wusf.org | Isabella Gomez Sarmiento
Since President Trump took over as chairman of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in February, artists' responses have been mixed. Some, including Issa Rae, Rhiannon Giddens and the musical Hamilton, cancelled performances in protest. Others, like comedian W. Kamau Bell and the band Guster, decided to move forward.
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2 weeks ago | 
npr.org | Anamaria Sayre |Isabella Gomez Sarmiento
Behind the scenes of Bad Bunny's Tiny Desk Download Embed <iframe src="https://www.npr.org/player/embed/1243652736/1269029541" width="100%" height="290" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" title="NPR embedded audio player"> Bad Bunny at the Tiny Desk Virginia Lozano/NPR hide caption toggle caption Virginia Lozano/NPR Bad Bunny at the Tiny Desk Virginia Lozano/NPR It's safe to say that Bad Bunny is at the top of his game at the moment.
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2 weeks ago | 
flipboard.com | Anamaria Sayre |Isabella Gomez Sarmiento
11 hours agoHe opened up about the cathartic experience returning to Thailand 20 years later. Trigger warning: This article includes mention of suicide. Walton Goggins’s surly, Hawaiian shirt-wearing Rick Hatchett quickly emerged as one of the most unexpected breakout characters from the White Lotus Season 3, and …
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2 weeks ago | 
wfdd.org | Maria Aspan |Isabella Gomez Sarmiento |Michael Sullivan
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2 weeks ago | 
kpbs.org | Isabella Gomez Sarmiento |Hazel Cills
Obsessive fans of The Boss are going to have a busy summer. This week, Bruce Springsteen announced that he'd be filling in some of the longstanding gaps in his catalog by putting out seven albums of previously unreleased music. The box set, out June 27 and titled Tracks II: The Lost Albums, collects 83 songs that were recorded across four decades, ending with an unreleased album from 2018 called Perfect World.
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2 weeks ago | 
wusf.org | Bob Mondello |Isabella Gomez Sarmiento
NPR's Ailsa Chang speaks with movie critic Bob Mondello and culture reporter Isabella Gomez Sarmiento about movies they've loved over the years, from childhood into adulthood.
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2 weeks ago | 
ctpublic.org | Bob Mondello |Isabella Gomez Sarmiento
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1 month ago | 
opb.org | Isabella Gomez Sarmiento
In February, President Trump broke tradition when he dismissed Kennedy Center leadership and appointed a new Board of Trustees. President Trump toured the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts on Monday, where he also presided over a board meeting as the Center’s new chair. “We’re here to have our first board meeting, Kennedy Center, and it’s in tremendous disrepair,” Trump told reporters during the tour.
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1 month ago | 
wesa.fm | Isabella Gomez Sarmiento
Updated March 17, 2025 at 17:55 PM ETPresident Trump toured the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts on Monday, where he also presided over a board meeting as the Center's new chair. "We're here to have our first board meeting, Kennedy Center, and it's in tremendous disrepair," Trump told reporters during the tour.
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1 month ago | 
kqed.org | Isabella Gomez Sarmiento |Hazel Cills |Ann Powers |Sidney Madden
When the COVID lockdown began in March of 2020, touring musicians were among those whose plans, and lives, and livelihoods, were suddenly upended. Performances that had already been booked were canceled. Venues, artists and labels scrambled to figure out rescheduling, but as lockdowns extended and COVID-19 infections rose, it became clear that the initial chaos of the pandemic was not going to subside before a deeper disruption was inflicted.
