The performer had been in a medically induced coma for weeks, and doctors also had to amputate his right leg. Still, this week his wife said she received "just the best news you could hear."
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 10:33PMAs usual, the more than two dozen winners in 2019 span a range of fields, from fiction and cartoons to neuroscience and theoretical geophysics. Now they've got one important accolade in comm…
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 08:36PMJudges sought to support the media "even if some wrongly degrade [it] as the enemy of the very democracy it serves." Honors went to The Advocate in Baton Rouge, La., Florida's Sun-Sentinel a…
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 02:56PMThe partial government shutdown hasn't just shuttered museums in Washington, D.C. Across the U.S., and even beyond its borders, artists and the groups supporting them are grappling with the …
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 09:12PMJason De León, Njideka Akunyili Crosby and Derek Peterson are among the 24 winners of this year's MacArthur Fellowship, which honors "extraordinarily talented and creative individuals."
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 06:36AMA Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright and Oscar-nominated actor, Shepard cut a towering presence in theater and cinema. He died last week of complications from ALS, a family spokesman says.
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 02:54PMA local label head with cerebral palsy has turned his show-going savvy into a Tumblr.
SOURCE: Washington City Paper at 12:25PM