So here it is, Merry Christmas. Well, not quite, but the season to be jolly will soon be upon us. Seeing as how Pricewatch is always banging on about the need to shop early and shop local, we thought we’d better publish our list of excellent Irish-based retailers doing the business online a couple of
All products and services featured are independently selected by Forbes Vetted contributors and editors. When you make a purchase through links on this page, we may earn a commission. Learn more Melissa Klurman, Contributor Forbes Vetted No one does hospitality quite like Mickey. While a trip to Disney World may bring to mind castles, costumed
Our expert critics supply a guide to film, dance, visual art, theater, author readings, and music. More offerings will be added as they come in. Film A scene from I Like Movies, screening on November 9 at the Boston Jewish Film Festival Boston Jewish Film Festivalthrough November 12Multiple Venues BJFF showcases a global selection of
“Home schooling has become — by a wide margin — America’s fastest-growing form of education,” according to a new analysis by the Washington Post. (Alternate URL here): The analysis — based on data The Post collected for thousands of school districts across the country — reveals that a dramatic rise in home schooling at the
If you’re ready for some holiday spirit as soon as Halloween is over, area attractions and event planners have you covered. After making its post-pandemic return last year, the Gingerbread Village event at Exploration Place opens the holiday event season in Wichita the first weekend in November. Other holiday events this year include long-running holiday
Photo: Indians Migrating by Alexander F. Harmer, n.d., Museum: Smithsonian American Art Museum.(Credit Image: © Album via ZUMA Press) Jeff Fynn-Paul, Not Stolen: The Truth About European Colonialism in the New World, Bombardier Books, 2023, 386 pp., $17.26 (paper) The Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics in Waterloo, Canada, opens every public lecture with this: In the spirit of
New York’s Metropolitan Museum houses a pair of 2,000-year-old earrings from South India. About 3 inches wide and 1.5 inches in length, the earring seems small compared to the wide variety of monumental and magnificent objects from South Asia that surround them. Yet, for ear ornaments they are large – each one is about the
When priests at the Krishnaswamy temple in Attingal in southern Kerala summoned gods through rituals, a young A Ramachandran watched in quiet wonder. Years later, his sculptures still reflect those cosmic arrangements — the precision with which the sanctum was adorned for worshippers to be mesmerised by the idol that shone in the light of
Comment on this storyComment Add to your saved stories Save The Vikings have lived within the American imagination for hundreds of years, and they were on the continent long before. There is incontrovertible evidence that Northmen, probably sailing from Greenland, lived at least seasonally in North America beginning around A.D. 1000. Medieval sagas speak of
It’s rare for a new restaurant to open without some sort of gimmick these days. After all, you have to stand out to survive in a city like London. When I heard about ‘Europe’s first sushi monorail’, my gimmick alarm bells started ringing. Food arriving on a train seems very Yo! Sushi 2.0, and I’m