The Cotton Club will open to the public in the first quarter of 2019. Other buildings, including a grocery store and several shotgun houses, are also on tap to be renovated.

But the Cotton Club at 837 SE Seventh Ave. is a monument to Gainesville history. The building first served as a post exchange at Camp Blanding near Starke, providing supplies for Army personnel ...

Tap-dancing icon Maurice Hines, Broadway actor, star of "The Cotton Club" and the older brother of Gregory Hines, died Dec. 29, 2023, at age 80.

Though the Cotton Club was modeled on its famous Harlem namesake, the Chicago version featured more modern entertainment and is credited with launching the careers of R&B artist R. Kelly and ...

For two more days, a remarkable salvage job can be found on a single Chicago movie screen, at the Landmark Century Centre Cinema: Francis Ford Coppola’s “The Cotton Club Encore.” It’s a ...

The original Cotton Club was first opened on 142nd Street and Lenox Avenue by African-American socialite and boxer Jack Johnson in 1920. The establishment was quickly turned over to Owney Madden, an ...

Lionsgate will release Francis Ford Coppola’s recut of his 1984 film The Cotton Club in select theaters on Oct. 11, with a screening at the New York Film Festival prior on Oct. 5. The pic will ...

Such performers, especially in venues like the Cotton Club, set precedents for all blues and jazz singers that followed, says Jenkins-Wisner, an 80-year-old Harlem native who performed in such ...

2020 Ebertfest to open with ‘Cotton Club,’ close with ‘There’s Something About Mary’ The annual event in Champaign for movie lovers is scheduled for April 15-18. By Darel Jevens ...

The Cotton Club remained open until 1975, when Duncan lost out to urban renewal. She opened a club at another location in Colorado Springs, but it didn’t succeed.

The Club Eaton, 426 E. Kennedy Blvd., was built in 1950 by Altamonte Springs resident Condo Merritt, at the time one of the wealthiest black men in Central Florida.