Billie Holiday
Billie Holiday sang in this Upper West Side living room This Manhattan apartment has an impressive musical history, but it won’t be available for a song. At 340 Riverside Drive, a nearly 2,000-square-foot corner co-op that’s about to hit the...
These are history's hottest messes It’s a tale as old as time . . . or at least as old as TMZ. The “celebrity train wreck” is generally a young, beautiful woman who ascends to fame and...
Frank Sinatra's love affair with melodies, mistresses & the mob This Dec. 12, Frank Sinatra would have turned 100 years old. James Kaplan’s two-part biography of the legendary singer only seems that long. “The Chairman,” out this week, follows 2010’s...
Stop the hologram tribute acts, they’re awful Rest in peace? Not while there’s money to be made, darling. Mining the music of dead artists has long been a trope of the music industry; it’s the downside of...
Icons exhibit defines 'American Cool' The National Portrait Gallery in DC has assembled photos of the country’s 100 most iconic personalities for an exhibit titled “American Cool.” “So much of what’s written about cool is...