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Shortly before 11:00 p.m, 24-year old heiress Leila Welsh and her boyfriend Richard Funk stepped into Kansas City's swinging Hotel Phillips. They walked across the palatial lobby into the Tropic ...

Author and historian David McCullough left a massive void behind in his absence when he died in 2022. Fortunately, many close to him agreed that his wisdom and insights were still needed today. In Sep ...

18. We get a little abstract and we make up a bunch of words and phrases in order to describe what Joan Mitchell was doing on the canvases she painted in 1964, a kind of annus mirabilis for Joan Mitch ...

Marlon Brando was a great man: a genius, a visionary, a generational talent, and perhaps the best actor to ever live. Few would disagree, claiming it self-evident. But the latest biopic on Brando&rsqu ...

Excerpted from Pandemic of Lunacy: How to Think Clearly When Everyone Around You Seems Crazy (Creed & Culture), published on February 3, 2026. +++++ "Through the aid of applied science we sh ...