Pianist Albert Ammons was the king of boogie-woogie, a bluesy jazz style that swept the United States, and then the world, from the late 1930s into the mid-1940s. Although his origins were modest, his ...

Eugene "Jug" Ammons was a jazz tenor saxophone player, and the son of boogie-woogie pianist Albert Ammons. Ammons began to gain recognition when he went on the road with trumpeter King Kolax band in ...

The Lee Daniels-directed, Glenn Close and Andra Day-starring Netflix movie “The Deliverance” is getting a lot of attention for that scene (more on this later), but there’s also something else to take ...

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A.R. Ammons (1926-2001) was one of the great curmudgeons in poetry — he actually made an aesthetic out of a kind of reticent fuddy-duddiness spiked with a whole bunch of other moods and modes, from ...

Justus M. “Jud” Ammons, one of the Triangle’s most influential housing developers for decades, died on Sunday. He was 85. His death was confirmed to The News & Observer by his son, Andy Ammons. He ...

Alex Ammons isn’t afraid to die. As a professional death-doula, end-of-life care is her career, and she’s been applying the practice, particularly the act of “dying well,” in her personal and creative ...

A.R. Ammons, a major American poet whose works contemplating the relationship of man and nature have been compared to those of Emerson, Whitman and William Carlos Williams, died of cancer Sunday at ...

State Rep. Carol Ammons (D-Urbana) announced at the Women’s March in Springfield Tuesday that she is forming an exploratory committee and launching a “listening tour” in preparation for a possible run ...

Sophomore guards Mekhi Young (11 points) and Lester Watson (eight points) have led the Thunderbirds’ resurgence. Senior guard Jordan Jones had 12 points and nine rebounds against the Raptors. “ [Young ...