I still remember getting that call in 2001 telling me that actress-singer Aaliyah had died in a plane crash in the Bahamas. I had interviewed the rising star just a few weeks before; she had even ...

Slim, sleek and cool with a curtain of hair sweeping over one eye, Aaliyah was known to her collaborators and fans as Babygirl. She was just 22 when she died in a plane crash 20 years ago this week.

In the run-up to an Aaliyah-themed drag show at a Brooklyn gay bar this month, drag performer Dèvo Monique is concentrating on “commissioning a look.” The look, which they are keeping secret until the ...