Articles

Bangkok's Songkran New Year festival washes away bad luck

Highlights and Hotspots

Celebrations, ceremonies and competitions sure to delight even the most seasoned traveler

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Letters

Readers Respond to the January Issue

"Renegades" says a former Indiana motorcycle-shop owner of bikers he knew, such as Sparky (Charles Ritter, left) and CowBoy (irvin Dunsdon), in 1965

Two for the Rogues

Sparky and CowBoy were fast friends, but Danny Lyon was able to keep up with them

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From the Castle

Tapestries

Rogone (in a San Bernadino hospital) says "my babies' motivated the inventions.

A Neonatal Niche

Medical companies ignored the needs of premature infants, inspiring a nurse to become an entrepreneur

Cover of the "Singing for Life" album.

Jukebox

Songs to Live By

Evel Knievel

Daredevil

Evel Knievel took risky behavior (and showboating) to new heights

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John Alexander

A retrospective of artist John Alexander's work debuted at the American Art Museum in December and travels next to Houston's Museum of Fine Arts

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Making History

Mystery Illuminated

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What's Up

Jones (sporting Frank Sinatra's ring) has a hand in the Beijing Olympics as well as ongoing music and movies

The Arranger

From bebop to hip-hop, nobody alive has done more for American music than Quincy Jones

In 1907, recordings were interred in metal urns at the Palais Garnier, to be reopened in 100 years

A Record Find

How The Phantom of the Opera led me to a long-lost musical treasure in Paris

Chocolate truffles

A Brief History of Chocolate

Uncover the bittersweet story of this ancient treat and watch a video

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Prototype Online: Inventive Voices

Sharon Rogone, a neonatal nurse-turned-inventor, talks about her first invention

Jones is currently on the council of the National Museum of African American History and Culture

Q at the Castle

Why the Smithsonian Institution can't get enough of American music's top artist-entrepreneur, Quincy Jones

Old Gramophone.

Forgotten Music

A long-lost musical treasure in Paris is rediscovered

“Strong Medicine” Speaks

Recollections from the matriarch of a once hidden tribe

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March Anniversaries

Momentous or Merely Memorable

New Zealander Rob Hall, at the 28,000-foot mark of Everest's Southeast Ridge in 1994, led Jon Krakauer's team up in 1996. A storm claimed the lives of eight climbers, including Hall's, on that widely publicized expedition

Conquering Everest

A history of climbing the world's tallest mountain

The Empress Dowager Cixi

Cixi: The Woman Behind the Throne

The concubine who became China’s last empress

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