Seasonal city breaks: 4 of the best pre-Christmas European getaways to start your festive spirit.Zagreb, CroatiaThe Croatian capital takes the Christmas seriously, with street decorations, outdoor concerts and a traditional Christmas market. Most of the action is centred on Ban Josip Jelai Square...
In making the somewhat innocent Lele her narrator, Hilde Spiel draws us in as effectively as Lisa does her coterie, but then she buries the rotting old corpse of Europe and sends Lele, Jeff, and little Mario off to sunny California and a life that could come straight out of an ad in a...
Cycling Newsexplains the difference between road bikes and hybrids, so you know what to ask Santa for this year.Pro tip: If you’re not sure whether an article comes from the US or Europe, look for the currency products are priced in, or whether common words have weird spelling, like ti...
Lynn Rosen‘s Season 2 pilot for her web seriesGASBAGfeatures some of NYC’s best theatre performers. Rosen’s dialogue is hilarious. The cast is outstanding. LeadChad Kessleris an undeniable star with the unrelenting energy of a catnip-high feline. This genuine ensemble overflows with talent,...
With the outbreak of World War I in Europe and America’s subsequent entry into that war, three of the sons of Moses and Mathilde Rothschild as well as their two sons-in-law registered for the draft. Samuel’s registration shows that he was living in the Bronx and working as a superinte...
There has been no discussion of how much Fujitsu, the maker of the faulty Post Office software Horizon, should contribute to compensating its victims, the company’s Europe chief executive has said. The company has been in discussion with the government about paying towards its proposed billion-...
TDE president Punch expressed a similar sentiment in an interview withMic. "We watched him grow from a teenager up into an established grown man, a businessman, and one of the greatest artists of all time," he said. "So it's time to move on and try new things and ven...
Taking their cue from the extended percussive breaks of Jamaican Dub music, Kool Herc and his peers began using two turntables to lengthen the briefer breaks of hit Soul, Funk and Disco tracks, and in the process laid the very bedrock of the Hip-Hop movement. Forty years later, SummerStage...
My sitter, a forgettable local teenager, Megan, spent the bulk of her time on the phone with her friends, or on the computer looking at mostly naked men. I went into my room and read books I smuggled from the library. I could read a thousand pages a day. I would be ten when they...
Zheng Cuiping, 59, started working at the factory in the 1980s when she was a teenager, and stayed there until she retired. "I remember when I was a little girl, ducks were everywhere in the small town. I could hear their quack! quack! quack! A dried salted duck was a very popular...