Josephine Baker’s Secret War By Hanna Diamond Yale University Press, 352 pages, $35 Hemingway called her “the most sensational woman anybody ever saw.” If you read any well-informed account of the ...

Thanks in part to Lan Doky, the Jazzhus Montmartre was revived in its original location. A few streets away, the intimate, ...

The musician died on Sunday in Kingston, New York, of congestive heart failure. Over the years, he collaborated with a vast ...

Jack DeJohnette, a celebrated jazz drummer who worked with Miles Davis on his landmark 1970 fusion album and collaborated ...

Alice Fennelly grew up in Loveland, surrounded by the Rocky Mountains and bronze sculptures. Now, living in a suburb of Paris, she was inspired by the life story of Joséphine Baker — a woman filled ...

Josephine Baker was the first Black female superstar. In the 1920s, she took Paris by storm with her exuberant dance performances; she was also a Resistance fighter in World War II and a civil rights ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. The internet says the jambon beurre at one restaurant in Paris is the best. The internet is wrong. I recently ...

We have excellent croissants in Los Angeles. The baguettes at République and Clark Street bakery are first-rate. Frites? There are too many local favorites to count. But when it comes to impossibly ...

The actor has never been better than playing musical theater icon Lorenz Hart. He talks with Obsessed about his major career moment. Entertainment Critic Ethan Hawke has been making movies for four ...

Villa Beau-Chêne, the 12-bedroom Parisian mansion where Josephine Baker made her home in the 1930s and ’40s, is on the market for €20.84 million (US$24.45 million). Located in Le Vésinet, about 10 ...

The owner of a Seattle bakery mainstay is headed for what’s known as the “World Cup of Baking” in Paris, hoping to win gold with Team USA — for the second time. William Leaman, who founded local ...

Hawke may not have picked the place to meet by accident, being a Telluride veteran. He first came to the festival in 2015 with his first directorial effort, “Seymour: An Introduction,” a doc about ...