ARCHIVES 2001-2010

Kristi Wooten

Jul 22, 2009

Do We Need A National Black Arts Festival?

BY KRISTI YORK WOOTEN FOR THE HUFFINGTON POST Over the past month, I’ve been thinking a lot about Claude Monet. Partly because I live in...

Kristi Wooten

Jun 3, 2009

The Sachs-Moyo-Easterly Aid Debate: An Activist's Perspective

BY KRISTI YORK WOOTEN FOR THE HUFFINGTON POST In reading and participating in the exchange about aid to Africa (in particular, the one...

Kristi Wooten

May 18, 2009

John Legend and Jeffrey Sachs: Philanthropy's New BFFs

BY KRISTI YORK WOOTEN FOR THE HUFFINGTON POST The rooftop of the private Soho House in New York’s Meatpacking District is the perfect...

Kristi Wooten

Apr 19, 2009

Meet Tinted Windows: Rock's Newest Supergroup?

BY KRISTI YORK WOOTEN FOR NEWSWEEK Onstage at a Tulsa, Okla., nightclub in March, hometown singer Taylor Hanson shimmies to the beat of a...

Kristi Wooten

Sep 7, 2008

The Business of Fashion: A Return of the '90s Supermodel

BY KRISTI YORK WOOTEN FOR NEWSWEEK The fashion industry wants everything skinny—except, of course, its magazines. While thin models...

Kristi Wooten

Aug 1, 2008

The Happy Mellencampers: John Mellencamp and Campaign Music

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Kristi Wooten

Jul 22, 2008

John Mellencamp Tackles Race, Politics in New Album

BY KRISTI YORK WOOTEN FOR NEWSWEEK Just because he’s riffed his way into our collective consciousness with no-frills all-American rock...

Kristi Wooten

Jun 3, 2008

Jakob Dylan Talks About His First Solo Album

BY KRISTI YORK WOOTEN FOR NEWSWEEK Jakob Dylan says he knows what reviewers will write about his first solo recording, the Rick...

Kristi Wooten

May 6, 2008

Aimee Mann’s New Album: Less Serious But Still Smart

BY KRISTI YORK WOOTEN FOR NEWSWEEK If you’re annoyed by those relentlessly happy people who put smiley faces in e-mails, Aimee Mann’s new...

Kristi Wooten

Feb 10, 2002

Keith Jarrett Defends Free Jazz

BY KRISTI YORK WOOTEN FOR CREATIVE LOAFING More than a year after Ken Burns’ Jazz aired on PBS, the debate over the series’ fairness...