Stephen Ridley - COVID-19 has got the world on lockdown, quarantined. Coronavirus seems to have affected us all. In these moments, I turn to music. To the simple, timeless power of song. London has a lot of public pianos. Since the coronavirus hit, and COVID lockdown happened, they've been locked...

CALIFORNIA FOREVER: Solano County sits at the crossroads of Northern California. Nestled between Sacramento, the Delta, San Francisco, and Napa Valley, Solano perfectly captures the diversity of California’s landscapes and its people. It is the home of agriculture and green energy industries that s

Richard Socarides remembers coming out to his father, one of the founders of conversion therapy who believed homosexuality is a mental illness and can be cured. His aim is to help lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer people learn more about their community, straight people learn more about...

In December 2022, California scientists achieved a major breakthrough -- a nuclear fusion reaction that produced more energy than was used to create it. Scientists have done it again and this time their results produced even more energy. Professor Peter Hosemann, chair of nuclear and mechanical eng...

People around the world have interacted with the stories of the Torah almost exclusively through the written word. Without the aid of illustrations, readers have relied on the power of their imaginations to visualize the dramas that unfold throughout the Torah. Several years ago, Jewish-Chilean a...

The American fairytale is far from enchanted, argues Matthew Stewart in his June 2018 cover story for The Atlantic. Power and wealth are concentrated in an anxious aristocracy, comprised of 10% of the population, that reigns by dividing the lower classes and pitting them against each other. It’s how

Life’s gorgeous expanse was at the forefront of this year’s Fire Island Dance Festival, expressed through stunning dance and stories, all enhanced by the power of nature as it played out on the scenic backdrop of the waters of the Great South Bay. The longest-running charitable and cultural event in

Passing Through by Kristian Ulrich Larsen. The text used for the narration of “Passing Through” is part of a speech Serbia scientist and inventor Nicola Tesla delivered in 1893 at the Franklin Institute in Philadelphia. Though today less known than figures like Edison and Einstein, Tesla was more o

Marriage Proposal at Bulls-Spurs. Sports, for all the machismo involved, really do have the power to unite. Perhaps at no point was that more obvious than last night’s Chicago Bulls game, when a gay couple got engaged after an in-game proposal. Jake Conrad worked with the Bulls to set up a proposal

A gay wedding proposal on Italy’s Got Talent appears to be Italian TV’s first same-sex proposal. A member of acrobatic dance troupe Les Farfadais dropped to one knee and presented his boyfriend with a ring during the live competition. The boyfriend’s surprise proposal came just after the group perf