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Peter Brötzmann, photographer in Buffalo, N.Y., in 2010.

Peter Brötzmann, the heart — and lungs — of European free jazz, dead at 82

The indefatigable saxophonist who helped redefine jazz in the late 1960s died in his sleep Thursday.

Patrons at a club in Kharkiv hold sparklers in the darkened room in eastern Ukraine. Despite the ongoing war, people are still finding a way release tension in nightclubs in the the battered city.

Up past curfew, the party lasts all night at a basement dance club in Ukraine

Despite more than a year of war in Ukraine, regular missile strikes and power outages, the party goes all night long at a basement club in Kharkiv.

Lou Curtiss plays music for Gregory Page in his store, Oct. 21, 2013.

'Recordially Yours, Lou Curtiss' highlights legacy of late San Diego impresario

A new film by musician and filmmaker Yale Strom explores the life and legacy of San Diego Folk Festival founder.

San Diego weekend arts events: North Park Book Fair, WPA-era art, Mass Creativity Day and more

This weekend in the arts: the third annual North Park Book Fair; "Art for the People" at Oceanside Museum of Art; a City Heights music festival; Black Music Month in Logan Heights; women composers at Le Salon de Musiques; "Destiny of Desire" closes at The Old Globe; and Mass Creativity Day (and a new Painted Object) at The New Children's Museum.

Ida and Isidore Straus died after she gave up her spot in a lifeboat to stay with him on the sinking Titanic. Their great-great-granddaughter Wendy Rush is married to Stockton Rush, the founder of OceanGate and pilot of its missing submersible.

The wife of OceanGate's CEO is descended from a famous couple who died on the Titanic

Stockton Rush, OceanGate's CEO and the pilot on its missing sub, is married to the great-great-granddaughter of Ida and Isidor Straus. Their story inspired an iconic scene in James Cameron's movie.

Dionne Warwick (from left), Barry Gibb, Queen Latifah, Billy Crystal and Renée Fleming will be honored by the Kennedy Center for their lifetime achievements.

Queen Latifah and Billy Crystal are among the 2023 Kennedy Center honorees

Billy Crystal, Renée Fleming, Barry Gibb, Queen Latifah and Dionne Warwick will be honored for their lifetime artistic achievements as the 46th class of Kennedy Center honorees.

Four decades into his career, Lloyd Cole is still dishing out guitar-based pop songs filled with ambiguity and ambivalence.

One of pop music's unreliable narrators offers discomfort. (But can you trust him?)

Four decades into his career, Lloyd Cole's On Pain finds this purveyor of guitar pop still exploring that hazy space where people question themselves and make excuses or promises they might not keep.

The AG Gaston Motel is part of the Birmingham Civil Rights National Monument, a collection of landmarks associated with 1963 Birmingham Campaign events, like The Children's Crusade.

Birmingham honors the Black businessman who quietly backed the Civil Rights Movement

The National Park Service and the city are teaming up to restore the AG Gaston Motel built by Black entrepreneur AG Gaston. It served as a secure space for civil rights leaders to strategize in 1963.

Ricardo Alberto Maldonado will become the Academy of American Poets' first Latino executive director and president since its founding in 1934.

The Academy of American Poets names its first Latino head

Ricardo Alberto Maldonado will become the almost-90-year-old academy's executive director and president.

The rebuilt heart of Jason Isbell

A decade ago, Jason Isbell gave his career a second act by facing his own mistakes. Can he help his listeners do the same?

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