Last night I was watching a special episode of Antiques Roadshow entitled “Survivors”. The show focused on various items from…
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It’s been 70 years to the day since the United States dropped an atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima…
Spotlight is the new film by Academy Award-nominated screenwriter and director, Thomas McCarthy, and written by McCarthy and Josh Singer,…
A long-lost and disturbing article first published 80 years ago in The New Yorker has become the source material for…
In the fall of 1930, Iowa painter Grant Wood (1891-1942) entered his painting entitled American Gothic into an art competition at…
The whole world is talking about the brand new P5+1 (United States, the United Kingdom, France, China, Russia and Germany…
When it was built in 1897 the wood-shingled summer house known as Grey Gardens was a true mansion for its…