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Blue Origin plans to launch a space flight with a crew that includes the singer behind the 2010 hit "Firework." But we can ...
Tron, Zillatron, King of the Geepies, Bootdullivan, Bedroom Bootsy and, of course, Bootzilla - have always battled for space ...
The festival opens with a gala cabaret 7 p.m. Thursday, April 10, at the Swan Dive, 727 S.E. Grand Ave., and continues each ...
Before he became ‘the’ Bootsy Collins, William Collins was a young guitarist who desperately wanted to join his brother's band ...
"Once you get the funk out there, it's not going back. You can't put it back in the box," says filmmaker Stanley Nelson. His ...
Directors Stanley Nelson and Nicole London discuss their new documentary We Want the Funk! on Deadline's Doc Talk podcast.
And a new documentary from PBS — “We Want the Funk!”— serves as a timely demonstration of how artistic moments and political ...
This brisk 80-minute documentary is a wall-to-wall commemoration of a genre by the people who love it the most.
Collins had lessons on the importance of the business end of the music biz from Brown, who shared the adage It’s 75 percent business, 25 percent music. Though he bristled at the math as a 19-year-old ...
Margaret Mitchell was born in 1900, a quarter century after the beginning and subsequently abrupt end of Reconstruction.
A casual observer of Ellen Alaverdyan might be fooled by her cute smile or sweet peals of laughter. After all, she looks like ...
Jazz heavyweights Dennis Chambers and Gary Grainger will play a pair of shows on Hilton Head on April 10 that will revisit ...