Lugubrious originates from the Latin word lugubris, which translates to either mournful or sorrowful. This term is connected with lugere, meaning to mourn.In the 17th century, when the word was ...

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I think of Canary Wharf in the same way I think of Venice. Of course, Venice’s melancholy beauty is unique. But it is a dead ...

British and International comedy circuit. One of the finest comperes around, Mick Ferry performs regularly at The Comedy Store in London and Manchester as well as headlining at comedy venues ...

Wolfgang Koeppen’s “trilogy of failure,” written from 1951 to 1954, is a sprawling, polyphonic portrait of a physically and ...

No score yet, be the first to add. Channeling ’90s slowcore and post-rock into gorgeously brooding odes to dejection, the Chicago quartet’s debut is downer music at its most alluring. Save this story ...

His latest role in political thriller Legends takes Steve Coogan back to the 90s – a time where he couldn’t be picky about ...

Alexandre Kantorow, the first French pianist to win top prize at the Tchaikovsky Competition, performed a recital at the ...

Poet T.S. Eliot wrote, “April is the cruelest month” as the opening line in his poem “The Waste Land,” written in 1922. I have a feeling if Eliot were alive ...

THE LITERARY FALLACY—Bernard De-Voto—Little, Brown ($2.50). Indiana University (peacetime enrolment : 7,000) is the alma mater of both Paul McNutt and Wendell Willkie. Like other universities, it ...

The longtime bassist for the Red Hot Chili Peppers has his first solo album. "I'm making music that occupies its own place in ...