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The Rev. Bettie Kennedy remembers the dance steps -- the "Swing Out" and the "Slow Drag." Their memories date back to the heyday of the East Texas Cotton Club in Lufkin, when many of the greatest ...

EDITOR'S NOTE: "Caprock Chronicles" is a yearlong series of short articles and essays that examines the life, people and historical places of our region's past. Paul Carlson, professor emeritus of ...

Edging closer to musical theater with The Cotton Mouth Club, Chicago Dance Crash nevertheless remains edgy. The barroom setting and lack of dialogue bring to mind Twyla Tharp’s Broadway hit Come Fly ...

For two more days, a remarkable salvage job can be found on a single Chicago movie screen, at the Landmark Century Centre Cinema: Francis Ford Coppola’s “The Cotton Club Encore.” It’s a recut and ...

Maurice Hines, the dancer, actor and choreographer who starred on Broadway and in Francis Ford Coppola’s “The Cotton Club,” has died at 80. The tap-dancing icon, whose younger brother Gregory Hines ...