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Roger Geller has a plan to spur Portland’s cycling renaissance
Roger Geller has been the City of Portland’s bicycle coordinator for over 30 years. For most of that time he worked for a ...
Meet the Trinidad-born entrepreneur shaking up a UK rum renaissance
Jennifer Sieg meets Marc Farrell, founder and chief executive of US-based Ten to One Rum, to discuss why he sees the UK as ...
Naya Beat, Vol. 2: South Asian Dance and Electronic Music 1988-1994
In the ’80s and ’90s, South Asian musicians around the globe blended house and dub with the sounds of their heritage, ...
The Harvard Crimson1d
So You Want to Listen to Girl Rock Bands from the ’50s and ’60s
The seeds of this counterculture may have been sown earlier with girl rock bands who sang about sexual desire, a reckless ...
Minneapolis’ Danez Smith looks to Langston Hughes and Andre 3000 in trying to write one great poem
You can read Minneapolis poet Danez Smith’s work in two new books or, if you happen to be in New York, on subway walls.
Ancient Greece's cultural rise started a century earlier than previously thought—new research
While ancient Greece is one of the best known cultures of antiquity, there are no surviving historical narratives covering ...
The Justice3d
A visual analysis of ‘Saint Luke Drawing the Virgin’
Mary and Saint Luke are the figures in the foreground, placed on both sides of the composition, while the two more miniature ...
Yahoo6d
How to time travel your way back to Renaissance Florence
But studies or early copies survive for both ... and it now houses many key works that played a central part in the Florentine renaissance. These include the original decorated bronze Baptistery doors ...
Sacramento Bee25d
As Renaissance Tower auction approaches, business leaders rethink Sacramento’s downtown
In the early 20th century, Sacramento’s downtown was a more mixed-use district, with residential areas and retail spaces alongside offices. The land the Renaissance Tower now occupies ...
The Topeka Capital-Journal26d
How Topeka Renaissance Festival can be a bit bawdy — and still be family friendly
Hear ye, hear ye, the Topeka Renaissance Festival is coming to northeast Kansas, and it will be cheekier than ever. Local resident Angela Kearney is working with the owners of Woodshed Event ...
Tarot cards don't just tell the future. Here's what they reveal about the past.
From its origins in gambling, to a canvas for artists and political expression, tarot went through one last transformation in the 18th century before its revival as a spiritual tool in the 1970s.