Today is Friday, Feb. 10, the 41st day of 2012 with 325 to follow. The moon is waning. The morning stars are Mars and Saturn. The evening stars are Mercury, Neptune, Venus, Jupiter and Uranus. Those born on this date are under the sign of Aquarius. They

A MAJOR exhibition of paintings of Connemara people and landscapes by Armagh-born artist Charles Lamb (1893-1964) is on view at Adam's AVA Gallery, Clandeboye Estate, Bangor, Co Down. The paintings are not for sale and are on loan from private collection

"Dickens refers to 'the friendships we form with books', while Charles Lamb regarded books as 'the best company'." The problem, of course, is that however much we care about books, books don't care about us. The Guardian (UK) 01/17/12

Decades after they joined the Girl Scouts, Kirsten Enzinger and Janet Brown still have fond memories of times they spent inside the giant tepee at Annapolis' Camp Woodlands. "It was the place for orientation, the place for meals, the place for meetings,"

A Hackney brewery that opened just five months ago is planning to expand and rivals are set to open in the borough soon as part of what is being seen as a real ale revolution centred in East London. London Fields Brewery, a microbrewery that opened in Au

Last year I came upon an essay by Charles Lamb, "New Year's Eve," (published in 1823) that really summed this day up for me. Every man hath two birthdays; two days, at least, in every year, which set him upon revolving the lapse of time, as it affects hi