When it comes to Black History Month, this piece shares a white artist’s longtime aspiration for wanting to be cool and their owing a debt of gratitude to the birth of its origin, jazz. The concept of ...

When the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival begins later this week, it will quickly express that jazz is just its heritage, not its limit. On the first night of the two-weekend Goliath event, ...

A week before the second Art of Cool Fest brings three-dozen jazz, soul and R&B acts to the outdoor lawns and indoor halls of Durham, co-founder Cicely Mitchell seems self-assured. She has one ...

*New York, NY – Continuing the momentum of its recently released EP, On the Shoulders of Giants, Soul Understated is back to give fans even more fierce soul stylings as the opening act for Grammy ...

The Internet will be headlining a late-night show at the Carolina Theatre in Durham on Saturday at the third annual Art of Cool Festival. Fiona Goodall Getty Images With everybody and their mom ...

Art of Cool co-founder and Missy Lane's co-owner Cicely Mitchell will produce a new festival in downtown Durham this October. "You know how in life there are times when you want a do over? Well, this ...

Art of Cool organizers announced Wednesday that the annual music festival would not be taking place as planned on Sept. 25-28 in Durham. The Art of Cool Festival and the Southern Womens Show are among ...

The author, Joel Dinerstein, puts its death knell at the moment Gordon Gekko declared “Greed, for lack of a better word, is good” in 1987 movie Wall Street. After that, we were working for the man; we ...

Before we came to that conclusion, though, we spent a couple of months talking about creativity, the art of cool, and the new civic duty to be hip. Along the way, we argued, went off on tangents, ...