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And then there is his voice — perhaps at its most ravishing on “Take Care of Yourself,” a ballad from his 2011 album “Bella” — at once fierce and tender, colored by longing and loss.

From Salon • May 15, 2026

Featuring about 40 colored pencil drawings — mostly on real menus from L.A. restaurants — the whimsical show is a love letter to his Fairfax neighborhood.

From Los Angeles Times • May 12, 2026

Swiping through a dozen or so brightly colored cards, I’m told, in what supposedly constitutes a “framework shift”: “You have a good kid.”

From Slate • May 10, 2026

“The day is past,” he said in 1887, according to Simmons, “when the colored boys will be refused work only because of race prejudice.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 18, 2026

Different colored sands painted a boy with glasses holding a feather in one hand and a book in the other in the center of a giant circular mural.

From "Healer of the Water Monster" by Brian Young