Moore was a key figure in the then-burgeoning rap genre, writing and producing hits like "The Breaks" and "Christmas Rappin'" ...

BUT HE DID NOT WEAR A RED SUIT, NOR DID HE HAVE REINDEER. THE REINDEER CAME FROM CLEMENT MOORE’S NIGHT BEFORE CHRISTMAS POEM, 1822, AND THE RED SUIT WAS INVENTED BY THE CARTOONIST THOMAS NAST IN ...

Following the death of his great friend Arthur Henry Hallam in 1833, the poet Alfred Tennyson began writing In Memoriam AHH, ...

He was a magazine ad salesman when he and a colleague, Robert Ford, teamed with Kurtis Blow and helped break rap music into ...

It was among other politically charged works, which included banned Christmas carols and satirical poems from the 1640s. And it had been set to music by the composer Henry Lawes, which can be ...

Richmond-based University of Virginia student Jack Stepanian will have the "biggest headlining show" of his career this Friday in Charlottesville.

Lauren Christensen’s memoir, “ Firstborn ,” begins with an epigraph from Louise Glück’s poem “The Wild Iris”: “Hear me out: ...

Travis Ramsey says it began with the kind of request that "all composers dream of." The director of ChoralArt in Portland was asking him to write half a concert's worth of music about anything he ...

We are already more than halfway through Irish American heritage month, so if you are still searching for some luck this ...

A forgotten copy of Shakespeare’s famous Sonnet 116 was found tucked away in a 17th-century manuscript in the Oxford Library.

But, so far at least, astronomy has remained above human tinkering, and at 5:01 a.m. Philadelphia time Thursday the sun will ...

Clement Clarke Moore's poem "A Visit From St. Nicholas" — aka "'Twas the Night Before Christmas" — was published in New York in 1823 to enormous success. In 1836, Alabama became the first ...