Get to know 19 of Grinnell College's most famous alumni

From theater to investment banking, Grinnell grads have been making names for themselves since the college was founded. Get ...

Robbie Robertson, guitarist and songwriting force behind The Band, dead at 80

Robbie Robertson, the string-bending guitarist and principal songwriter of The Band, has died at 80, a representative confirmed to CBC News. Robertson died on Wednesday morning in Los Angeles after a ...

Alice Munro, Canadian Nobel Prize-winning author, dead at 92

Nobel Prize-winning Canadian writer Alice Munro, whose exquisitely crafted tales of the loves, ambitions and travails of ...
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Tobias Picker’s ‘Lili Elbe’ – Historic trans life gets an operatic tribute

Lili Elbe, the “Danish girl” who died tragically in 1931 from complications of gender-reassignment surgeries, has had a number of reincarnations across the media. The latest is Bright Shiny Object’s ...

Sir Garry Sobers, cricketer revered as the greatest all-rounder in the history of the sport

To present him in statistical terms is no more to convey the essence of the man than to describe Beethoven by the number of ...
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Why ‘Desmond’s’ Still Matters: In Conversation With Series Creator Trix Worrell

Since the advent of colour television, Black British culture has significantly influenced the small screen—even during the late 20th century, when it was marginalised and culturally flattened for the ...