04/18/2023. Ahmad Jamal, whose measured, spare piano style was an inspiration to generations of jazz musicians, died Sunday at his home in Ashley Falls, Massachusetts. He was 92. The cause was prostate cancer, his daughter, Sumayah, said. In a career that ...

04/19/2023. To walk among the observatory domes of the Atacama Desert is to brush your hair with the stars. The Atacama, on a plateau high in the Chilean Andes, is one of the driest and darkest places in the world. During the day one can see to Bolivia, far t...

04/19/2023. At an age when his peers were getting driver’s licenses and thinking about college, Jose Di Lenola, then 17, was behind bars in one of New York’s most violent prisons, earning “a master’s degree in prison survival,” as he put...

04/19/2023. Alice and Diana don’t like each other very much. Not at first. Diana, a teacher at the University of Ohio, considers Alice an intellectual lightweight and flaky. Alice, a faculty wife, finds Diana condescending. “They are unlikely friend...

04/19/2023. Hollywood is getting ever closer to a shutdown. The unions representing thousands of television and movie writers said Monday that they had overwhelming support for a strike, giving union leaders the right to call for a walkout when the writers
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04/19/2023. Most Japanese schoolchildren know the kappa as a trickster who looks like a cross between a frog and a turtle with an indented head. If you’re not careful, it could drag you into the river to drown. The tengu, identifiable by its bright red face...

04/19/2023. Quint Gallery is showing the exhibition 'Taylor Chapin: Rest Assured You Are In Good Hands' through May 11th by artist Taylor Chapin at their gallery and featured her work as part of the monthly B...

04/19/2023. Golden Sun Auctions will hold an online-only native American pottery, jewelry, art and camaro Z28 auction on Sunday, April 30th. In addition to a 1969 Z28 Chevrolet Camaro, the sale will also f...

04/19/2023. Morphy’s will bring on the fun and games April 20-22 with a stellar array of antique coin-operated machines and early advertising. Nearly 2,100 premium lots will be offered in three daily s...

04/19/2023. On a recent weekday evening in this city’s Midtown neighborhood, hundreds of people, including Stacey Abrams, the former nominee for governor of Georgia, and Andre Dickens, the city’s mayor, came together for a celebration. They weren’...

04/20/2023. After I checked into the Grand Pacific Hotel in Suva, Fiji’s capital, a colonial-era lodging so iconic that locals call it simply GPH, I walked outside along Victoria Parade, the wide boulevard in front. Many of the people I encountered smiled, ...

04/20/2023. Upon entering Joe’s Pub at the Public Theater for Suzan-Lori Parks’ “Plays for the Plague Year,” audience members are handed a Playbill, a pencil and two yellow notecards, each with a question about the pandemic: “What would ...

04/18/2023. Solea® laser dental treatments are precision treatments that can be used to remove teeth and alleviate dental problems. These treatments are usually recommended for patients who have cavities, gum disease, or significant damage to the nerves or denti...

04/19/2023. Very soon, the game world will receive an optimized and prepared next part of the cult RPG Diablo number 4, which will leave open testing for a full release. The entire history of Diablo's projects is built around the story of the protagonist's st...

04/19/2023. If you are an art lover, you must already know how this amazing world was inspired and shaped by risk-taking throughout history: From the roll of the dice in ancient Greece to the surrealist works of the 20th century, chance and risk-taking have play...