An East Texas World War 2 veteran celebrates a big milestone today, turning 100 years old. Surrounded by friends and family, ...

War is the defining event for any generation that lives through it. Like all great art, cinema has tried to make sense of the ...

Victory over Japan Day is marked each year on 15 August - the date in 1945 when Japan surrendered to the Allied forces and ...

Kyoko Oda is one of nine survivors of the U.S. government’s internment of Japanese Americans featured in “The Age of Incarceration,” a multimedia feature project by L.A.-based ...

Gregory Porter, 53, is a Grammy Award-winning jazz singer-songwriter born in California. In this Confessional Q+A, he speaks about hard lessons learned from his childhood paper route, becoming the ...

The sensory experience of the beach As I write in my 2016 book, “The Sea in the Greek ... In the “Odyssey,” an eighth century B.C.E. poem that takes place largely at sea, the hero Menelaus and his ...

Austin D'souza Prabhu was born on August 8, 1950 in Nanthur (known since captivity) in Mangalore, folks of Mumbai are familiar. Remembered for his all around greatness and seen as 'Konkani Premi'. He ...

Fantasy gets a bad rap in the literary world: swords ’n’ sandals, nerdy kids rolling 20-sided dice, cod-medieval hi-jinks, ...

An activist’s fight against big oil leads to his death sentence. Thirty years on, government says he’s a national hero.

Mikaela Straus grew up in a recording studio, mimicking the artists who passed through. For her new album, “Girl Violence,” ...

Queen Camilla donned a white ensemble on Friday as she and her husband were moved to tears by the powerful first-hand ...