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11/17/2019. Venice was on alert for more floods and fierce winds on Saturday after an exceptionally high tide swamped the city of canals, where authorities have declared a state of emergency. Mayor Luigi Brugnaro ordered the iconic St Mark's Square closed on ...

12/02/2019. Choreographer Donald Byrd stood before a video of his younger self, observing a dance he created 33 years ago. In a button-down T-shirt, loose khaki pants and bare feet, the man on-screen floated through swift turns and bobbing leaps with the continu...

01/24/2023. Ginny Redington Dawes, a songwriter whose compositions included memorable advertising jingles such as the chipper McDonald’s declaration “You, You’re the One” and Coca-Cola’s boast that “Coke Is It,” died Dec. 31 in...

01/27/2023. There are opera stars, and then there is Maria Callas. Birgit Nilsson or Luciano Pavarotti may have been great, but they haven’t sung posthumously. Callas, on the other hand, has toured — as a hologram — decades after her death. Few...

02/02/2023. Carin Goldberg, a graphic designer who brought an inventive postmodern sensibility to book and album covers, died on Jan. 19 at her home in Stanfordville, New York, in Dutchess County. She was 69. Her husband, architect James Biber, said the cause...

03/23/2023. “It’s bad!” one person wrote. “If there’s going to be a riot in NYC, it’ll be over this,” wrote another. Someone else posted, “This is literally the worst design I’ve ever, ever seen.” Just a...

04/09/2023. Of the numerous puzzles about William Shakespeare, those concerning his love life are the most tantalizing. Why did he marry a local woman, Anne Hathaway, have three children with her, then decamp to London for a life in the theater? What was their r...

04/30/2023. They’ve turned a big gazebo into a huge Tiffany lamp that you can walk through, created Tiffany-style patterns on the ground out of crushed tinted glass, and hung colorful plexiglass-like windows and cutouts of Tiffany flowers among the tropical...

05/20/2023. At its debut in 2012, Frieze New York, a spinoff of Frieze in London, came off as an imperious enterprise. The fair commanded an island in the East River. Getting there could be difficult and expensive. And once there, negotiating the miles of pedest...

07/29/2023. Bill Geddie, whose long working relationship with barrier-breaking television newswoman Barbara Walters began when he produced her prime-time specials on ABC, then expanded when he collaborated with her on “The View,” one of TV’s most ...

07/23/2023. Reddit is a popular social media platform, especially among communities like video gaming and cryptocurrency enthusiasts. Reddit has both a recreational and professional user base. The community and sharing features of the site are excellent. Reddit...

08/22/2023. We have always been drawn to the attraction of adventure, which tempts us to explore beyond our normal boundaries and embrace the uncharted. The pinnacle of this wanderlust is to travel the seven continents, an exciting voyage that promises a wide va...

09/15/2023. Introduction In our daily lives, we encounter various challenges in our homes and businesses, and one of the most perplexing issues can be the unsettling noise emanating from plumbing systems. When residents in São Miguel experience these dis...

09/23/2023. With the 100th birthday of Roy Lichtenstein approaching on Oct. 27, can we please turn our attention to the meaning of the word “forever?” Art is long and life is short, the maxim goes, but now even the new Lichtenstein stamps issued by the...