Inside the Kennedy Center as it prepares for a 2-year renovation

Inside the Kennedy Center as it prepares for a 2-year renovation

WASHINGTON — To President Donald Trump, the Kennedy Center is a “tired, broken, and dilapidated” building in urgent need of repair. To artists like Jane Fonda and Billy Porter, it’s a protest site symbolizing the administration’s effort to reshape the nation’s cultural institutions. For the Kennedy Center’s new leadership, it’s a gargantuan structure corroded by…

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Music Review: Noah Kahan's 'The Great Divide' meets the moment as a 'Stick Season' successor

Music Review: Noah Kahan’s ‘The Great Divide’ meets the moment as a ‘Stick Season’ successor

Gather around. Singer-songwriter Noah Kahan is leading his audience to therapy — or a walk in the woods. Kahan’s fourth studio album, “The Great Divide,” out Friday, picks up where “Stick Season” left off with folksy, introspective hooks and catchy choruses that hit like a windows-down drive on a cool summer night. Recorded primarily in…

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