Tommy Castro big winner at Blues Music Awards in Memphis
May 6, 2022 GMTMEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — Guitarist and singer Tommy Castro won in three top categories, including entertainer of the year, at the Blues Music Awards in Memphis, Tennessee.
The Memphis-based Blues Foundation held the annual ceremony honoring the year's best blues musicians at the Renasant Convention Center on Thursday night.
Rhiannon Giddens, Lumineers join ‘Event for the Environment’
November 9, 2021 GMTNEW YORK (AP) — More than 200 musical artists will perform next month as part of an online fundraiser for the environment that will be shown on YouTube.
Black Pumas, Jack Johnson, Ben Harper, the Lumineers, Rhiannon Giddens, Cat Stevens, Taj Mahal and Rosanne Cash are among the musicians that have signed on for “Peace Through Music: A Global Event for the Environment,” organizers said on Tuesday.
Annual Lennon tribute, in 40th year, goes online
September 24, 2020 GMTNEW YORK (AP) — Like many other events, an annual John Lennon tribute concert that takes place in his adopted city of New York on his Oct...
The Latest: Trump hails India trip as ‘learning experience’
February 25, 2020 GMTNEW DELHI (AP) — The Latest on President Donald Trump's visit to India (all times local): ...
Atlantic City welcomes back 2 shuttered casinos
June 28, 2018 GMTATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) — Movie stars lent an air of celebrity glitz to a gritty seaside gambling resort Thursday as Atlantic City reclaimed two of its shuttered casinos, and more than 6,000 of the 11,000 jobs it lost during a brutal stretch of casino shutdowns...
At 40, are Atlantic City casinos healing or courting danger?
May 11, 2018 GMTATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) — Having lost five of its 12 casinos over the past four years, Atlantic City will mark its 40th anniversary of casino gambling by reopening two of those shuttered properties, despite concern in some quarters that it might be repeating the same mistakes that got it into trouble in the first place...
Donald Trump’s greatest hits (and misses) in Atlantic City
October 7, 2016 GMTATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) — Donald Trump's business relationships with Atlantic City casinos have largely been over since 2009, even though the Trump Taj Mahal casino still bore his name. But early Monday, the last vestige of Trump will vanish from Atlantic City when the new owner of the Trump Taj Mahal casino shuts it down.