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The Empire State Trail passes by bustling cities, canal towns and old manufacturing hubs. Last December, the Empire State Trail -- a sprawling, 750-mile cyclist and pedestrian route that connects [...]

Dotted with canalside towns that tell a rich and often strange history of the westward expansion of America, the Erie Canalway Trail, a 360-mile bike trail connecting Buffalo to Albany, [...]

Last December, the https://empiretrail.ny.gov/ — a sprawling, 750-mile cyclist and pedestrian route that connects Buffalo to Albany and New York City to the Canadian border, forming what looks like a [...]

For the first time in more than two decades, and only the fourth time in the past century, the World Chess Championship will be held in New York City. The [...]

Here's a rewarding exercise: Assemble a playlist of songs by recently dead musicians. This list will almost certainly be random, and in the case of those who died in 2013, [...]

You have to admire the brass of Caf Grumpy, a chain that recently opened its fifth location, on West 39th Street in the garment district, right in the heart of [...]

This weekend the Brooklyn Aces or the Jersey Rockhoppers will become the first champions of the fledgling Eastern Professional Hockey League. Even for players in the E.P.H.L., the lowest level […]

If you want a symbol for the current American housing market, look into the backyard of a tidy little four-bedroom on Burke Avenue North in the Seattle neighborhood of Wallingford. […]

When Promises Treatment Center opened in Malibu 10 years ago, even the neighbors who were against it had to concede on one point. Their beloved Malibu, built on what is […]

CRACK. Crack. Thak! Liz Sosey dashed through the Berklee Performance Center during sound check wearing her hipster newsboy hat, backstage pass and a look of serene determination. There were problems, […]

THE popularity of poker on campus should surprise no one. Glory, risk, bravado -- poker's hallmarks fit right in with the dormitory worldview. According to a recent study by the […]

SYLLABUS -- Every year, from July to November, about 40 undergraduates at Franklin Pierce College participate in the Walk in Europe, for credit. There are no classes or exams; there's […]

DUKE University amused academia and befuddled parents when it gave free iPods to its entire freshman class. That was only last year, but it seems a lifetime ago. Back then, […]

ANY freshman in Physics 101 can tell you how a microwave works: radio waves (at a frequency of around 2.5 gigahertz) are converted to molecular motion when they are absorbed […]

THE Fiery Furnaces have had a year that most bands can only dream of. They released their first album, 'Gallowsbird's Bark,' last September, and it quickly became the kind of […]

The article reports on the business strategy of performer Radiohead by making its studio album "In Rainbows," available for online download. It states that 1.2 million copies of the album were downloaded in the first two days. It mentions the recording industry's fear regarding the effects of online downloading of music albums on their business. Tyler Cowen, an economist suspects that the strategy of the Radiohead might not succeed with every artist.

The article presents information on tilt-shift photography. This photography's digital technique is stated to make shots of big places like cityscapes, train stations, and docks appear to be photos of detailed scale models. The tilt-shift lenses are stated to permit an unusual degree of control over a picture's depth of field. It allows more variation in what is in focus and, what is not in focus. Tilt-shift pictures, which are digital photographs, require expensive photo equipment.