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April 11--On a brutally cold late winter afternoon, an open-mic event at the Chicago Cultural Center was packing them in. More than 250 high school students lined up to enter the Claudia Cassidy Theater, where their school ID's were checked by young adults wearing black "Social Experiment Staff" T-shirts.

Are the arts today really closed off to anyone who doesn’t have the right background or financial support? We asked musicians, film-makers, actors, artists, architects and others at the top of their field how they got there

It's the final fling before the holidays end and they're all back to school. Katy McGuinness suggests how to make the most of it...

Hillary Clinton’s 1,000-mile road trip to Iowa in ‘Scooby’ van under wayDemocratic frontrunner officially entered race on SundayRepublican Marco Rubio scheduled to announce in Miami this evening

Iris Murdoch, the novelist and philosopher, who has died aged 79, was one of the best and most influential writers of the 20th century. Above all, she kept the traditional novel alive, and in so doing changed what it is capable of. She was not the heir - as she…