Andrew Limbong
Andrew Limbong is a reporter for NPR's Arts Desk, where he does pieces on anything remotely related to arts or culture, from streamers looking for mental health on Twitch to Britney Spears' fight over her conservatorship. He's also covered the near collapse of the live music industry during the coronavirus pandemic. He's the host of NPR's Book of the Day podcast and a frequent host on Life Kit.
He started at NPR in 2011 as an intern for All Things Considered, and was a producer and director for Tell Me More.
Originally from Brooklyn and a graduate of SUNY New Paltz, he previously worked at ShopRite.
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Known as the "Prince of Darkness," the lead singer of the massively influential rock band Black Sabbath, Osbourne reached another generation via the MTV reality show The Osbournes in the early 2000s. -
NPR'S Andrew Limbong and Anamaria Sayre review the latest album from Karol G, Tropicoqueta.
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The 2025 Pulitzer Prizes were announced Monday afternoon. Percival Everett won the award for fiction for his novel James, a powerful re-imagination of Huckleberry Finn. -
Police say they arrested two people involved. The target was a free Lady Gaga concert in Rio de Janeiro, which drew more than 2 million people to Copacabana Beach on Saturday night. -
Jenkins, whose signature tune was "You'll Sing A Song," received a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award and was known worldwide for her call-and-response songs. -
Matthew Urango, the singer-songwriter and activist known as Cola Boyy, was born with spina bifida. The musician who made crowds dance with his 1970s-influenced disco pop has died at the age of 34.
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Catherine Christer Hennix combined drones and minimalism with mathematics, logic, and spirituality. Hennix died earlier this week in her home in Istanbul, Turkey, at age 75.
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The development comes a day after Combs' former partner, the singer Cassie, filed the federal lawsuit in Manhattan alleging she was drugged, raped and forced to perform sexual acts. -
Jazz master Carla Bley wrote hundreds of compositions — some of which are now considered standards. She died this week in New York of complications from brain cancer, her husband said. She was 87.
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New excerpts touching on her childhood and relationship with Justin Timberlake are drawing fans interested in her side of the story.
