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The Venice Biennale: First Course

I and the Village by Marc Chagall

Chagall on Dorm Room Walls

Birds Inspire Pine Growth

This panoramic view of Prague was taken from one of three ballustraded balconies of the Lobkowicz Palace.

Americans in Prague

A second wave of expatriates is now playing a vital role in the renaissance of the Czech capital

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Touchy Subject

"Where's the help?" Cynthia Scott demanded of photographer Michael Ainsworth after three days stranded on an overpass.

A Horrible Blessing

“How am I going to save my grandbabies?” she asked after the hurricane struck, two years ago this month

Michael Dell may have assembled this Turbo PC.

Baby Dell

A proto PC harkens back to the birth of an industry

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The Angler’s Song

A poem by Izaak Walton

Prague

Almost a Fairy Tale

Jonathan Kandell, author of “Americans in Prague,” talks about one of Europe’s most beautiful cities

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From the Castle

Mighty Mouse

The Somerset House Conference, by an unknown artist

Pride of the Realm

An extraordinary collection of pictures has traveled from the United Kingdom’s national portrait gallery to ours

Jeff Marx and Bobby Lopez at work on Avenue Q.

Broadway, Inc.

With shows like Legally Blonde and Wicked, the era of the name-brand musical is in full swing

Landon Nordeman, who is 33 and based in New York City, says he first got interested in Elvis' afterlife when he saw Ryan Pelton give a performance so riveting it transformed the auditorium into a time capsule.

Elvis Lives!

Thirty years after the King’s death, there’s still a whole lotta shakin’ goin’ on, thanks to legions of “tribute artists”

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The Art of Pizza

Cooking up the world’s most authentic pie in Naples, Italy

What inspires French perfume nose Celiné Ellena? "Just looking at people and how they live, hearing what they are talking about, seeing what kind of clothes they are wearing," she says.

FOR HIRE: Perfume Nose

A third-generation fragrance expert tells us how to smell a winner

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An Evolving Ritual

The National Powwow showcases a mixture of tradition and competition

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A Hip Tradition

The age-old art of hula is still moving and shaking

Thurgood Marshall

August Anniversaries

Momentous or Merely Memorable

"I think the most surprising thing was how Hemingway is still so alive [in Cuba]," says Valerie Hemingway.

Barefoot Hemingway

Valerie Hemingway, author of “Hemingway’s Cuba, Cuba’s Hemingway,” talks about pirated novels and Papa’s living legend

With his stylish clothes and powdered wig, Stede Bonnet (in a c. 1725 woodcut) stood out among the bearded, unkempt, ill-mannered pirates with whom he sailed.

The Gentleman Pirate

How Stede Bonnet went from wealthy landowner to villain on the sea

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