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The members of this adventurous quartet proved themselves masters of tonal variation, broad technique, and compositional creativity in a fascinating program that transformed and adapted Bach and Haydn and presented modern works that nod to the Baroque.

Surfing has become a profitable, competitive sport. For Bunker Spreckels it was a passion that laughed in the face of death.

Your write-in vote is not just one small step calling for change in this election but a giant leap for redefining democracy in America.

One could view 'In Winter' as a stylish stopgap between Melua's last recording 'Ketevan' and her next album. However, one should embrace it as an inspired seasonal concept album that ties 'The House' as her most ambitious undertaking yet.

'Strunkin'' is straight-ahead jazz at its finest, recalling the sophisticated musings from the likes of Duke Ellington, Count Basie, and Benny Goodman.

Are chimpanzees sentient beings deserving of legal personhood?

Money and genius grants can't revive the hundreds of languages native to the Americas that have died out over the last few centuries.

"There are a number of ideas I was exploring in this novel: ideas of truth and fiction in war—how war is mythologized before, during and after the fact; how story-telling acts a way to cope with trauma; how the trauma of the Vietnam War was a trauma of the American family."

The home video offerings are plentiful this holiday season including special version and gift set releases.

Gwen Hughes captures the ups and downs of her passage through life with profound authenticity, and revealing honesty.