Every day the ECHO print edition carries tributes and funeral notices for those who have lost a loved one recently and our ...

The Daily Echo has published 20 death notices in the last seven days.

As the former vice president was honored at Washington National Cathedral on Thursday, many eyes were focused on who came — and who did not. By Peter Baker Peter Baker covered the Bush-Cheney White ...

Janelle Monáe may have gone to the future on hit album Dirty Computer, but they are heading back in time for their next project. The Antebellum actor-singer will be embodying legendary entertainer and ...

When Josephine Baker’s ashes were transferred to the Panthéon in Paris on 30 November 2021 many French people were surprised. Why was an American-born performer, known mainly for her energetic ...

Villa Beau-Chêne, the 12-bedroom Parisian mansion where dancer and activist Josephine Baker made her home in the 1930s and ’40s, is on the market for €20.84 million (US$24.45 million). Baker, the ...

Hemingway called her “the most sensational woman anybody ever saw.” If you read any well-informed account of the life of le tout Paris between the wars, you’ll almost certainly run across her name.

Where does an artist who sculpts history’s most prominent women start? “The heart is where I begin,” says Loveland sculptor Jane DeDecker. “Sometimes I'll even layer that area so that you can kind of ...