I planned to make a flight on a Wednesday from my small community airport in the Detroit area to KLUK near Cincinnati, Ohio. Late on Tuesday afternoon, I found out the runway would be closed at my ...

SAN FRANCISCO - San Francisco's 45th Annual Chinatown New Year Run is Sunday, and the timing couldn't be more appropriate - 2023 is the Year of the Rabbit, according to the Chinese zodiac. The run ...

Our mission,” says Jim McCleary, “is to promote physical fitness, not to jump fancy.” McCleary is standing in a small, temporarily chairless cafeteria at Wilde Lake Middle School in Columbia, ...

Monsignor David Diamond, pastor of Immaculate Conception Parish in Jenkintown, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, celebrated the Mass of the Resurrection of the Lord on Easter Sunday, April 20, 2014.

No callers are identified. No conversations are recorded. No phone records are kept. Now speak clearly and when you are finished say: 'Go ahead'.

Speaking of Alec Wilder (yesterday's post), the composer may have had an inadvertent influence on Artie Shaw's decision to start his Gramercy Five combo in 1940. Forming small jazz groups within big ...