The iconic Apollo Theater in Harlem is preparing to go dark for more than a year, as crews get ready to begin the venue’s first large-scale renovation in its 91-year history. Scaffolding is already up ...

Today in Music History for Jan. 26: In 1859, the Victoria Philharmonic Society was founded. It was the first amateur musical organization in what now is British Columbia. In 1892, New York's ...

The famous Buddy Holly crosswalk in the singer's hometown of Lubbock will remain up for at least a couple more months. Lubbock city officials tell Chron they plan to remove the crosswalk art at some ...

There are black-rimmed eyeglasses of various sizes all over Lubbock, Texas – some are large enough to climb into for a creative selfie, others are small symbols on magnets and postcards at breweries ...

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A national roadshow called “Culture in Motion” will launch in January 2026, led by the Apollo Theater and Kwanza Jones. The “SUPERCHARGED® Boost Bus™” will serve as a mobile hub for performances, ...

The week's best and worst from Kyle Peterson, Allysia Finley and Dan Henninger Photo: nicolas tucat/Agence France-Presse/Getty Images This is only the second-most-regrettable indignity visited upon ...

There's a truly baffling trend right now in red states, where state and local governments are cracking down on crosswalks. It started over in Florida, where the state's scorched-earth approach to ...

“Political” road markings in Texas now include an ode to rock n’ roll legend Buddy Holly. At a city council meeting in Lubbock last week, David Bragg, interim director of public works, shared that his ...

LUBBOCK, Texas — Fans of the Buddy Holly crosswalk in his hometown of Lubbock, Texas, with a painted depiction of the rock and roll legend’s iconic glasses, will soon have to say goodbye to it.

A Trump administration directive targeting political road markings has left places like Lubbock, Texas, helpless to challenge broad new policies. By Ali Watkins The four giant pairs of glasses are ...

A Buddy Holly crosswalk in Lubbock is the latest casualty of Gov. Greg Abbot's call for cities to remove any political messaging or artwork from public roadways or face losing government funding.