Italian cooking and its rituals get UN designation as world heritage Posted January 9, 2026 Italian food is known and loved around the world for its fresh ingredients and palate-pleasing tastes. The U.N.'s cultural agency gave foodies another reason to c…
Funding museums through digital copies of art masterpieces Posted January 6, 2026 Digitally projected art masterpieces are bringing priceless artworks into the home—and the money raised is being used to support museums and galleries. If you've …
Consumers should do their research before giving in to Travel Tuesday temptation Posted January 1, 2026 Chain stores have Black Friday. Online marketplaces have Cyber Monday. For local businesses, it's Small Business Saturday. In the last 20 years, more segments of the retail ind…
It’s a bird! It’s a plane! It’s a rare Superman comic book! And it fetched $9.12M! Posted December 25, 2025 A copy of the first Superman issue, unearthed by three brothers cleaning out their late mother's attic, netted $9.12 million last month at a Texas auction house, …
Louvre boosts security with 100 cameras and other measures after crown jewels heist Posted December 18, 2025 The head of the Louvre Museum said that new security measures are being put in place at the Paris landmark after October’s stunning crown jewels heist. The camer…
Slime, Battleship, and Trivial Pursuit join the Toy Hall of Fame Posted December 8, 2025 Slime, that gooey, sticky, and often-homemade plaything, was enshrined in the National Toy Hall of Fame along with perennial bestselling games Battleship and Triv…
Shout-out for yodeling? Swiss seek recognition from UN cultural agency as tradition turns modern Posted December 5, 2025 Yodel-ay-hee ... what?! Those famed yodeling calls that for centuries have echoed through the Alps, and more recently have morphed into popular song and folk musi…
The new $50M Literary Arts Fund will support independent publishers and nonprofits Posted November 29, 2025 Citing a chronic shortage of financial backing for independent publishers and nonprofits dedicated to writing and reading, a coalition of seven charitable foundat…
A mushroom farm in Kenya and fungi-based panels give hope for sustainable building Posted November 22, 2025 A large mushroom farm near the Kenyan capital of Nairobi is one of a kind. It grows fungi on an industrial scale—not as food for restaurants but as a building material that some K…
As the world discovers the Faroe Islands, there’s a push for local food Posted November 16, 2025 Conditions aren’t friendly in the Faroe Islands for growing food. Raked by North Atlantic winds and nibbled by thousands of sheep, the nearly treeless islands hav…