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The 63rd annual Grammy Awards were given out Sunday night. And while the stars were on display, it was a very different kind of ceremony for music's biggest night.

Roblox, the online gaming platform, is going public on Wednesday. During the pandemic lockdown it's become a virtual playground, and the company has seen a surge in users, with millions now active.

You're Leaving When? is a witty memoir of Gurwitch's many middle age misadventures — and it doesn't even cover the stage IV lung cancer diagnosis she received in the midst of the pandemic.

On March 5th, conductor Gustavo Dudamel and the Los Angeles Philharmonic return to the Hollywood Bowl to launch the second season of their virtual concert series, Sound/Stage.

The 78th Golden Globes were held Sunday night, and it was a very different kind of awards ceremony due to the pandemic. Big winners included the TV series The Crown and the film Nomadland.

The 2021 Sundance Film Festival will be mostly virtual this year. Highlights include a documentary from Questlove, a biopic about Rita Moreno and films made during the pandemic.

Director Fernando Frías de la Parra's Netflix film I'm No Longer Here is Mexico's entry for Best International Feature Film at the Oscars. "He's truly original," says Roma director Alfonso Cuarón.

The Okee Dokee Brothers, Alastair Moock and Dog on Fleas — three of five acts nominated in the best children's album category — share their equity-based rationalizations for declining the ballot.

Batiste is one of several real-life musicians who consulted on the new Pixar film, about a middle-school band teacher who ends up in a fantastical realm called The Great Before.

Puerto Rican singer José Feliciano first came up with the Spanish/English Christmas song because he missed his family. Now, 50 years later, he's recorded a new version with 30 friends.

Las Musas, the Muses, is a group of Latina writers who held their first LatinX KidLit Book Festival to celebrate authors, illustrators and books by and about LatinX people.

Poet Miguel Algarin, founder of the Nuyorican Poets Cafe, has died at age 79. His Lower East Side performance space was known for its collective of poets, musicians, actors and activists.

One of the first artists to introduce North American audiences to her style of Latin American music, the folk singer was named a 2020 National Endowment for the Arts Heritage Fellow.

"It was like a spontaneous poem," filmmaker Gus Van Sant says of his seven-part collaboration with Gucci creative director Alessandro Michele. It's the centerpiece of the virtual festival GUCCI Fest.

The election of Kamala Harris as the first Indian-American vice president comes as Indians around the world celebrate Diwali — an annual festival commemorating the triumph of light over darkness.

"I love spending time with bright people," said the longtime game show host. Trebek began hosting the trivia show in 1984 and continued for nearly four decades, even through bouts of chemotherapy.

For the Day of the Dead, families build altars, decorate graves and remember their loved ones. This year, many are remembering parents, siblings and children who died in the COVID-19 pandemic.

A documentary that premiered at the Sundance Film Festival features the life of Luis Miranda, father of Hamilton creator Lin-Manuel Miranda. (Note: This piece previously aired on Feb. 2, 2020 on ATC.)

Argentine cartoonist Quino has died. He created a popular comic strip starring Mafalda and her friends. He's beloved throughout Latin America.

The Mid-Autumn Festival began Thursday in China and around the world. People celebrate the harvest moon by eating mooncakes and lighting lanterns. NPR discusses the symbolism behind the mooncake.