Tears of joy are like the summer rain drops pierced by sunbeams.” Hosea Ballou. “I love how summer just wraps its arms around you like a warm blanket.” Kellie Elmore. “Deep summer is when laziness ...

“Something miraculous burns in music,” wrote the Ukrainian poet Anna Akhmatova in a poem in tribute to Shostakovich, who understood well the cost of annihilation; “as you watch, its edges crystallize.

In “Tree Fall with Birdsong,” Kendall Dunkelberg’s fourth poetry collection, we are continually witnessing the melody of the natural world. From warblers to crows to the lakes and swamps of ...

Good fences make good neighbors.” The narrator of the famous Robert Frost poem “Mending Wall” wonders why his neighbor favors ...

Choreographers Selma and Sofiane Ouissi appear only on screen in Laaroussa Quartet, now in performance at the Festival ...

Did you know the world’s biggest lynx hides in plain sight, often unnoticed even by cat lovers? The Eurasian lynx, with its mysterious gaze and tufted ears, roams the forests and mountains of Europe ...

Such is the case at Delmonico’s Steakhouse in Independence, Ohio, where amid the sizzling steaks and seafood specialties lurks what might just be the most perfect Chicken Parmesan in the entire ...

Legend’ hit theaters, but neither the filmmakers nor the audience seemed entirely sure what the movie was about ...

The guitarist who’s worked with Tom Waits and Elvis Costello on postmodernity, Romanian film and the beauty of Trieste ...

Fringe Management will present A POEM AND A MISTAKE, written by Cheri Magid, performed by Sarah Baskin, and directed by ...

Summer 2026, A. A. Spectrum finds inspiration in quiet moments, the natural ease of creativity, and the unforced beauty of ...