One October morning in 2011, Barbara Brown Taylor, a New York Times bestselling author and Episcopal priest, flew to West Virginia to walk into a cave. She was guided by a retired Presbyterian ...

Nearly 10 years after Jennifer Hudson and Cynthia Erivo co-starred in the Broadway production of The Color Purple, the ...

The German Christmas carol “O Tannenbaum,” or, in English, “O’ Christmas Tree,” is a song that dates to the 1500s ... Charles ...

Erivo, 37, played Celie in the musical adaptation of The Color Purple, alongside Hudson's Shug Avery. The musical — penned by ...

ARLO GUTHRIE: (Singing) You can get anything you want at Alice's restaurant. SHAPIRO: The song was inspired by 1960s artist Alice Brock, who died last week at the age of 83. Viki Merrick was a close ...

So, whether it's miserable weather outside and you just fancy hunkering down for the night, or you want a cathartic cry, ...

Alice Brock, whose restaurant in western Massachusetts inspired Arlo Guthrie's Thanksgiving song, died last week at the age of 83.

Alice Brock claimed to have helped Guthrie write the first half of the song, but as it became famous she confessed to feeling uncomfortable with the publicity. “Once your name is in the paper ...

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