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Smithsonian's own jazz man, John Edward Hasse, gives a lesson on the influential music genre. Read more at: ...

A West End resident saw a trio of ghost signs and wondered how to bring them to back to life. He tracked down a local ...

One of the most unexpected and interesting announcements at the show was Jitterbug, a new MVNO from a little-known company called GreatCall. The target market for Jitterbug is older users, especially ...

Public-health researcher James Baguma has studied the interactions between bats, which can carry the virus, and people in the ...

Ever since humans began building, they’ve been building up. Throughout the millennia, our constructions have reached higher and higher into the sky, spurred by various motivations: religion, democracy ...

1876, The Mygale Spider: "This 'trapdoor' creature carries its eggs enclosed in a closely woven cocoon of white silk, forming ...

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Peter Frampton, Sen Dog of Cypress Hill, and James Iha of the Smashing Pumpkins look back on their legendary Springfield gig.