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Floyd was murdered by a police officer in Minneapolis in 2020. Washington Post reporters Robert Samuels and Toluse Olorunnipa reconstruct the course of his life in His Name is George Floyd.

British singer-songwriter Alexi Murdoch doesn't exactly rewrite the classic folk songbook on his first full-length studio album. But with his rich, hypnotic ballads and tender acoustic guitar work, he's created a timeless folk-pop record that's likely to endure.

Singer-songwriter Billy Preston has died in an Arizona hospital, ending a long fight against chronic kidney failure. The Grammy-winning performer gained fame working with artists such as The Beatles, which earned him an album credit for the Fab Four's "Get Back." He also played with the Rolling Stones and Eric Clapton.

Hank Williams III is the third generation of a country music dynasty. But with his new CD, Straight to Hell, Williams forges a path his famous grandfather probably wouldn't have expected — unabashedly embracing excessive drinking, fighting, drugs, general hell-raising and even Satanism.

An Argentine dad who loves Brazilian music, a Swedish childhood listening to Western pop, a stint in a hard-core metal band ... that['s the curious pedigree of singer-guitarist Jose Gonzalez, who can bring a hushed, haunting quality even to Kylie Minogue's pop hit "Hand on Your Heart." His music, well-known in Europe, is now finding an audience in the United States.

The volunteers building the "mesh" network in Dharamsala are linking an ancient culture to the modern world on the cheap, using recycled computers and piggybacking on existing towers — even Buddhist and Hindu temples are sporting antennas.

For nearly 2,000 years the Dead Sea Scrolls sat undisturbed, hidden in a honeycomb of caves in the Judean desert. Now one of the most important scrolls, a religious critique known as the Temple Scroll, is making its first appearance in the United States, at a museum in Cleveland.

Los Angeles Times and Morning Edition film critic Kenneth Turan reviews the new Pixar animated film Cars. He says the movie will likely continue Pixar's run of hits.

With so much emphasis on virtuosity in jazz, artists who pare their musical arsenals down to the soul-baring essentials usually prove the most alluring. Such is the case with Gretchen Parlato, who taps into Wayne Shorter's adventurism with her thoughtful lyrics, which touch on the joys of inward search.

Allen Ginsberg's "Howl," published in 1956, is being celebrated this year in readings, panel discussions and literary events around the world. The poem stirred the literary world and influenced generations of poets.