The artist served as a drummer boy, and a surgical assistant in the Civil War. Later he worked as a journalist in the ...

New York City has long been the artistic and musical heart of the nation, its cutting-edge position grounded in the opulent era known as the Gilded Age.

His wife, Fresh Air host Terry Gross, said the longtime contributor to The Village Voice and NPR had been living with emphysema and Parkinson's... Francis Davis, an articulate and gimlet-eyed ...

The distinguished jazz critic Francis Davis, husband of "Fresh Air" host and co-executive ... I had a three-hour show five days a week, so I needed to fill time: I needed film critics and art critics ...

Francis Davis, an articulate and gimlet-eyed cultural ... I needed film critics and art critics and music critics. I asked him if he would consider doing a piece on spec where he would choose ...