Where does an artist who sculpts history’s most prominent women start? “The heart is where I begin,” says Loveland sculptor Jane DeDecker. “Sometimes I'll even layer that area so that you can kind of ...

Hemingway called her “the most sensational woman anybody ever saw.” If you read any well-informed account of the life of le tout Paris between the wars, you’ll almost certainly run across her name.

Janelle Monáe may have gone to the future on hit album Dirty Computer, but they are heading back in time for their next project. The Antebellum actor-singer will be embodying legendary entertainer and ...

Designed by French architect Louis Gilbert in the 1890s, the 12-bedroom villa—dubbed Le Beau Chêne—features elaborate Louis XIII-style stone and brickwork with turrets, Juliet balconies, and a ...

Villa Beau-Chêne, the 12-bedroom Parisian mansion where dancer and activist Josephine Baker made her home in the 1930s and ’40s, is on the market for €20.84 million (US$24.45 million). Baker, the ...

Iconic Jazz Age performer Josephine Baker left America for France in the Roaring Twenties. The first Black woman to star in a major film, the entertainer and activist landed just west of Paris and ...

For Caskets, The Only Heaven You’ll Know feels like the moment everything clicks into place. Where previous album Reflections hinted at a band discovering who they were, this third outing sees them ...

Sally Josephine Garrigan, 81, of Belvidere, IL, passed away peacefully Tuesday, November 4, 2025, at Alden Debes Rehabilitation & Health Care Center in Rockford, IL. She was born April 19, 1944, in ...

Each week we pay tribute to the loved ones remembered in our area ...

Some 15,000 new homes are slated to be built in Long Island City after the City Council passed the Adams administration’s ambitious "OneLIC" rezoning plan during a final vote on... November 7, 2025 at ...

After a prayer, Cheney's casket was carried out of the National Cathedral by eight military body bearers shortly after 1 p.m. while the Battle Hymn of the Republic was sung. Rev. Randolph Hollerith, ...