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Dive into the career of the legendary blues guitarist, a pioneer of Chicago’s West Side sound and major influence on rock titans like Jimi Hendrix and Eric Clapton. Featuring new performances and interviews with Carlos Santana and more.

Embed from Getty Imageswindow.gie=window.gie||function(c){(gie.q=gie.q||[]).push(c)};gie(function(){gie.widgets.load({id:'80zZI9fhSTFdUu94clnwvA',sig:'NEwS2PCFiQn9jAucHbIUqcTOEeFoXDP7JBr4Kb-jke0=',w:'396px',h:'594px',items:'98641242',caption: true ,tld:'com',is360: false })}); When Amy Tan published "The Joy Luck Club," she hadn’t expected that it would thrust her into the world of celebrity. As thrilled as she was about the novel’s success, she was also intimidated. She was under ...

The 1970s was a rich decade for singer/songwriters, and many of its records still wind up on lists of the all-time greatest albums. Many could even lay claim to the #1 spot on lists like those. Bob Dylan had one, “Blood On the Tracks.” Joni ...

When Amy Tan first ventured into creative writing, she was on a mission. Tan had spent most of her career as a freelance technical and marketing writer — creating ad copy, direct mail campaigns and  various materials for telecommunication companies. She was working nearly 90 ...

A dancer from "The Trocks" describes what goes through his mind while dancing the part of Odette in Swan Lake. Is he trying to portray a man playing a ballerina? Or just a ballerina? At the end of the day, it's about relating to the ...

Dancers from "The Trocks," an all-male comic ballet company describe how performing in drag is empowering, even extending in to wearing pointe shoes, which are normally reserved for women. While they are painful, the enable some of the "best moments" in ballet.

Discover Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo (The Trocks), an all-male company that for 45 years has offered audiences their passion for ballet classics mixed with exuberant comedy. With every step they poke fun at their strictly gendered art form.

In the first grade, during circle time, when my teacher asked the class what we’d eaten for breakfast, students piped up “Pancakes!” “French toast!” — dishes that had never crossed the threshold of our home, dishes that I’d seen on television and read about in ...

Oliver Sacks was a polymath and as a result had bookshelves stocked with volumes on subjects ranging from his own field of neuroscience to botany and literature and beyond. Here are a just a few of the books he found notable: NeuroTribes: The Legacy of ...

Get an inside look at best-selling author Amy Tan's creative process, as revealed in Amy Tan: Unintended Memoir from American Masters.