After meeting in 1936, Marx Brothers fan Salvador Dalí sent Harpo one of the strangest and arguably worst Christmas presents ...

The culinary queen shocked fans when she revealed her quirky method involves leaving the meat outside under a skateboard.

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IT WAS in the clove of seasons, summer was dead but autumn had not yet been born, that the ibis lit in the bleeding tree. The ...

If Salvador Dali and Willy Wonka had an architectural love child, it would be The House on the Rock. This place is what ...

Cat Stevens was one of the most successful singer-songwriters of the late 60s and 70s. But then a near-death experience prompted a conversion to Islam, a change of name to Yusuf Islam and a retirement ...

The oldest neighborhood here is The French Quarter (also known as Vieux Carré), which despite its reputation for rowdy ...

A plaque in Woodside, Queens claims to mark the geographic center of NYC. But geographers say it’s not. So who put it there?

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MaryJo Martin: The best thing about living in New Paltz: the people. So often when I go into town for an errand or a walk, I run into folks that I know from different aspects of my life. I enjoy the ...

It has become a tradition to publish this story at Christmas each year.