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Maya Angelou, the memoirist and poet whose landmark book of 1969, “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings” — which describes in lyrical, unsparing prose her childhood in the Jim Crow South — was among the first autobiographies by a ...

By all available measures, Albert Einstein has become one of the strongest personal brand names in history, and next week, the Brown 1931 Levi Strauss Leather Jacket worn by Science’s rock star is going to auction. Worn on the cover of Time Magazine...

Out ‘N’ About: Makua Rothman, Great Aloha Run, more “Honolulu Night Market” on Saturday, Feb. 15: Block Party, featuring art festival, Pow! Wow! Hawaii finale party (at Lana Lane Studios till midnight), fashion and food vendors...

From Ian: The Delirium of Anti-Zionism In 1975, when the UN infamously declared that Zionism is a form of racism, Daniel Patrick Moynihan defiantly stood before the General Assembly and informed the delegates that the UN had just granted “symbolic...

A corner lot that will be the new home for DePaul University’s Blue Demons basketball team is the object of a court fight between a clout-heavy bank and Chicago’s McCormick Place over how much it’s worth. They’re fighting over how much taxpayers will...