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Alicia Keys, Ricky Martin, More Added to the National Recording Registry

The Library of Congress is preserving a number of iconic musicians' works in the National Recording Registry for the purpose of posterity. This year's inductees include albums ranging from Ellington's 1956 Ellington at Newport to 1997's Buena Vista Social Club to Alicia Keys' Songs in A Minor. In addition to a myriad of influential music, the Library of Congress has also added some major historic recordings to the registry. Included in the […]

todayApril 14, 2022

Classic Hits

Today in Music History: February 15th

1964 - The Beatles scored their first U.S. No. 1 album with Meet The Beatles! The album stayed at No. 1 for eleven weeks. 1965 - The much loved and respected crooner/jazz singer and pianist Nat King Cole died of complications following surgery for lung cancer in Santa Monica. He was 48. First famous for his jazz piano stylings, he also had an unforgettable voice and was one of the first African […]

todayFebruary 15, 2022

Food & Drink

Saying Goodbye to the Queen

Leah Chase, one of the most influential and acclaimed American chefs of the last century, died in June this year at the age of 96.   For the last seven decades, Chase presided over the stoves at New Orleans’s famed Dooky Chase’s Restaurant, where she served an array of Creole classics and signature dishes like shrimp Clemenceau and her Holy Thursday special gumbo z’herbes. Throughout her storied career, Chase played […]

todayJuly 16, 2019

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