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The drive-by shooting of Tupac Shakur in 1996 was a pivotal moment in music history. Duane Keith Davis is now on trial, accused of supplying the murder weapon.

With her usual irreverent humor, the playwright Sophie McIntosh mines the experiences of four young, cooped-up women at a Manhattan reformatory in 1917.

Duane Davis's memoir is key evidence in his trial. He now claims it's fiction

Why is a trial happening 30 years after the shooting?

After responding to a 911 call, emergency responders pronounced the actress dead at an apartment complex in Greenville, S.C.

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Before the shooting, gang violence and hip-hop beef signaled trouble

The opera singer made her role debut as the hotel host in "Il viaggio a Reims" at this year's Salzburg Festival.

Philippe Sly felt he needed an immersion course to portray St. Francis in the new Salzburg Festival production of "St. François d'Assise."

The former home of Stefan Zweig, the Jewish Austrian writer, is unexpectedly for sale.