The Associated Press BOSTON A rare letter that Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart composed to a friend has sold at auction for $217,000. The Boston-based RR Auction house says the one-page German note was written in 1786 to Austrian botanist Nikolaus Joseph von Jacquin, a close friend of Mozart’s. It asks von […]
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By Beth J. Harpaz The Associated Press A luscious new book of photos called “Cabin Porn” isn’t inviting readers to hole up in the woods to look at naked bodies. It is inviting them to look at photos about holing up in the woods. The book is the brainchild of […]
The Associated Press LONDON The World Health Organization says it’s possible in rare instances for patients who survived Ebola to develop the lethal disease again, when lingering virus in the body starts to replicate. That might explain what has happened to a Scottish nurse now being treated in London’s Royal […]
By Kelli Kennedy The Associated Press MIAMI Tal Ronnen’s food philosophy isn’t unusual for a chef of his calibre. It also isn’t complicated. Simply put: taste above all. And then you realize he’s vegan, an approach to eating that too often has been defined by foods so virtuous they taste […]
The Canadian Press Editor’s Note:With FOOD-Popcorn. Sisters Julie Albert and Lisa Gnat love entertaining and have compiled more than 700 recipes on their website, bitememore.com. They think popcorn can bring a lot of fun to the table. Here are two of their recipes, one for chicken that uses popcorn as […]
By J.M. Hirsch THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Ready to bring Oktoberfest home? It is, after all, a fine way to get into the spirit of fall. We start with that most ubiquitous of German sausages (at least in this country), the bratwurst. Here in the U.S., we tend to think of […]
By Raphael Satter The Associated Press LONDON Researchers say some smaller, poorer nations are now using spy software, suggesting that recent data leaks and lawsuits have not deterred governments from investing in off-the-shelf cyberespionage products. Internet watchdog group Citizen Lab said in a report Thursday that it had found 33 […]
By Michele Kayal The Associated Press Disney princesses reimagined as hot dogs and drunken rants by name-brand chefs are de rigueur for quarterly food magazine Lucky Peach. But a new cookbook from the journal’s editors leaves most of that on the table, favouring instead a just-campy-enough approach to Asian home […]
By Leanne Italie THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The 28-year-old Londoner, who plays menacing, white-haired Daenerys Targaryen, aka Khaleesi, aka Mother of Dragons on “Game of Thrones,” is Esquire’s Sexiest Woman Alive. The magazine made the announcement early Tuesday, but GQ got there first, anointing Clarke Woman of the Year in September. […]
The Associated Press CHICAGO One couple ran away to get married … at the Chicago Marathon. Stephanie Reinhart says she just wanted a “short and sweet ceremony.” Mark Jockel wanted a big wedding surrounded by friends and family. The 35-year-old Reinhart and 46-year-old Jockel compromised, marrying at the 8-mile mark […]
The Associated Press Two orphaned sisters separated decades ago in Korea have been reunited after miraculously getting hired on the same floor of a southwest Florida hospital. Holly Hoyle O’Brien was adopted by an American couple in 1978 when she was 9-years-old. A few years earlier, her biological father had […]
By Nicole Winfield The Associated Press VATICAN CITY Pope Francis’ divisive meeting on family issues took another controversial twist Monday with revelations that several conservative cardinals wrote to the pontiff expressing serious concerns about “predetermined results” coming out of the meeting ‚Äî only to have doubts arise over both the […]
