Celebrity Birthdays for Dec. 24: Dr. Anthony Fauci is 85. Recording company executive Mike Curb is 81. Comedian Steve Smith ("Red Green Show") is 80. Guitarist Jan Akkerman is 79.

Iconic Dutch guitar maestro Jan Akkerman releases his new live album, My Focus - Live Under The Rainbow, via Artone/Music ...

For one weekend only, hundreds of devoted readers gathered in Hudson, North Carolina, to celebrate Mitford, a fictional place with a real sense of community. Jan Karon, the 88-year-old author behind ...

Kathy Akkerman, 76 walked gently into the arms of her Lord early in the morning of Tuesday, November 25, 2025. Just 6 short years to the date after her precious husband George. From the moment that ...

This autumn, Nest presents the duo exhibition Telephone, featuring the work of painter Philip Akkerman and musician Jameszoo (Mitchel van Dinther). This autumn, Nest presents the duo exhibition ...

Jan Ravnik learned that a diamond’s got to shine right from the source: Taylor Swift. After supporting “The Life of a Showgirl” singer on her record-breaking Eras Tour, the professional dancer is ...

Before 9/11, she ran a dry cleaning business in Massachusetts; in the aftermath, she returned home after decades away to educate young girls. By Penelope Green Razia Jan, a dynamic Afghan-born U.S.

As a wordsmith who labored over each paragraph, sentence and phrase, historian and writer Jan Shipps would be delighted to see her friends, colleagues and admirers mining their mental thesaurus for ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Marc Berman is a New York-based reporter who covers media. Jan Shepard, who appeared as a guest star in dozens of television ...

On Tuesday, Daniel Ball’s case tied to the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol attack was formally dismissed after he received a full pardon from President Trump. But by Wednesday, Ball was arrested once more on a ...

President Donald Trump pardoned nearly all Jan. 6 defendants on Monday night, after promising at his inaugural parade to sign an executive order on the matter. Sitting at the Resolute Desk in the Oval ...