Before Assemblymembers leave Albany, they could take up a bill requiring the packaging industry to pay for disposal of single-use plastics. The legislation also aims to reduce this plastic by 30% ...

A new art exhibition celebrating neighborhoods, including the Queens areas of Willets Point and the Rockaways, has opened in ...

In the shadow of the Empire State Building, a nine-foot-tall gorilla gazes toward the iconic skyscraper. A few steps away, a massive brown bear raises its head curiously, and a polar bear lifts a paw ...

Ms. Brock Akil, 55, began her career as a television writer and producer in Los Angeles, writing for “South Central” and ...

After some digging, Ford eventually turned up a catalogue from a solo exhibition of Orlik’s paintings at Acoris, a Surrealist ...

LAWRENCE COUNTY- Limestone Month is proudly celebrated every June in Lawrence County, Indiana. Since the early 1800s, Lawrence County’s rich limestone quarrying and carving ...

Armed with a tape recorder and open ears, Tony Schwartz turned everyday noise into lasting art. Now, his recordings live on at Smithsonian Folkways, where they continue to inspire new ways of ...

Leonard Lauder, a renowned philanthropist who expanded the family cosmetics business into a worldwide empire, has died at the ...

Leonard A. Lauder (1933–2025): the venerable collector, philanthropist, and driving force behind the Estée Lauder empire, has ...

Throughout the summer, many homes sit empty thanks to properties owned by the families of students at nearby Montana State ...

Julie Samuels, Tech:NYC’s president and CEO, said her organization is not opposed to state regulation, though it would prefer ...

On its first American tour, the British jangle-rock band with a cheeky-dirtbag edge is trying to unite the states, one gig at ...