From a high-flying, world-class pianist to “Zorro,” a new opera, there is a lot to see and do in the Bay Area this weekend.

Despite the confusion, bigly is actually defined in the Merriam-Webster dictionary as an adverb form of "big ... That's beautiful! Wow!" The comment came as Elon Musk drove several luxury ...

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Here, forty-six years ago, Gary Oldman made his professional stage debut. Not far away, thirty years after that, I sat ...

One evening early into this past October, Dr. John Kaag, an author and professor of philosophy at UMass Lowell, came to campus to present on Henry David Thoreau’s influential relationship with the ...

It was John McDonald’s goal that when we were finished with his high school English classes that we weren’t morons.

That Casimir Markievicz exhibition (Diary, April 23rd) reminded me in passing how dependent the upper classes of these islands used to be on what grammarians call “degree adverbs”. Witness a ...

We have some Batman inspired words in today's Connections from The New York Times. Find out all of April 24th's answers and ...

The latter experience was the most “instructive,” he admits, and it centered around a unique policy against using adverbs. But the reason is more logical than you may think. “When we would ...

COMMENT | The recent massacre of 26 civilians, mostly tourists, in the serene Pahalgam Valley of Indian-administered Kashmir is more than a national tragedy. It is a brutal strike against peace ...

COMMENT | Just as the ink was hardly dry on my advice to Selangor PAS Youth chief Sukri Omar not to interfere in Singapore’s internal affairs, a particular development across the Causeway has ...