Musicians including Carlos Santana and Herbie Hancock criticise Grammy Award organisers for dropping categories from the annual show.

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NEW YORK — The Academy Award-winning songwriter of “You Light Up My Life” was found dead of an apparent suicide while awaiting trial on charges of sexually assaulting more than a dozen women and just months after his son was accused of murdering a swimsuit designer. Joseph Brooks, 73, was discovered Sunday afternoon on his living room couch with a plastic dry-cleaning bag around his head and a towel around his neck, police spokesman Paul Browne said. A hose attached to a helium tank was hooked up to the bag, and the door to Brooks’ Upper East Side apartment was ajar, he said. Read full article > >

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Facing sex charges, ‘You Light Up My Life’ songwriter Brooks dies in apparent suicide in NYC

The East Room, the most coveted concert hall in Washington, will be the setting on May 11 for “An Evening of Poetry.” The President and First Lady have invited an interesting collection of voices from former U.S. Poet Laureates Rita Dove and Billy Collins to Grammy Award winner Jill Scott. The lineup also includes Elizabeth Alexander, who created a poem for the president’s inauguration; the hip-hop artist and actor Common; poet and artist Kenneth Goldsmith ; installation artist Alison Knowles and songwriter and singer Aimee Mann. Read full article > >

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Poets and musicians to take the stage at the White House

NEW YORK — Sidney Lumet, the award-winning director of such acclaimed films as “Network,” ‘’Serpico,” ‘’Dog Day Afternoon” and “12 Angry Men,” has died. He was 86.

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US writer Anthony Doerr is named the winner of this year’s Short Story Award for The Deep, scooping the £30,000 prize money.

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Blues pianist Pinetop Perkins, the oldest musicion ever to win a Grammy award, dies in Austin, Texas, aged 97.

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Short-story writer Deborah Eisenberg, 65, wins PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction.

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Deborah Eisenberg wins PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction

Walter Smith conceded his Rangers team were not at their best in the 2-1 win over Kilmarnock and felt the award of a penalty against his side was “strange”.

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Jennifer Egan won the National Book Critics Circle Award for fiction at the Tishman Auditorium of the New School on Thursday night for “A Visit From the Goon Squad” (Knopf), a wildly inventive novel of interlocking stories.

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The granddaughter of a woman who died the day before she was due to be appointed MBE is to collect the award from Buckingham Palace on her behalf.

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Teenager collects posthumous MBE

May this month’s Justin Bieber profile be as lucky: Rolling Stone has won the Polk Award for magazine reporting for “The Runaway General,” Michael Hasting’s profile of Stanley McChrystal which led to the general’s resignation. Dexter Filkins and Mark…

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Jon Caramanica and Dave Itzkoff are following the award show. Check back for updates throughout the night.

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Watch out, Social Network, your main awards competitor just picked up more steam: The King’s Speech won the award for best film at the British Academy Film and Television Awards (BAFTA), the U.K.’s equivalent of the Oscars. Colin Firth won Best Actor…

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“The Social Network” took the prize for best drama, Colin Firth was named best dramatic actor for “The King’s Speech” and Natalie Portman danced away with the award for best actress.

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‘The Social Network’ Dominates Golden Globes

They can’t get enough of The Social Network. On Saturday the film received the award for best picture by the National Society of Film Critics. The film about the creation of Facebook and its founder Mark Zuckerberg also won for best director, David…

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