The internationally recognized poet has two events this month in support of "Hound Dog: A Poet's Memoir of Rock, Revolution ...

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A former Ocean City police lieutenant and a former city councilperson will face off next month in a special election to fill the vacant council seat left by Tony DeLuca. Jeff Heiser, a 25-year veteran ...

In his book Unseen Realm, Dr. Michael Heiser discusses a perspective of the Bible that is rarely discussed in American pulpits. As a society far more interested in cause-and-effect or scientific ...

Teddy Riley says he was robbed, overlooked and heartbroken, but in Remember the Times, the New Jack Swing architect is finally reclaiming his story on his own terms. Chuck “Jigsaw” Creekmur finally ...

Antoine Fuqua‘s Michael will be released by Lionsgate on April 22nd for early-access screenings in premium formats which is two days before its official release date. For those who can’t wait to see ...

Kendra Pierre-Louis: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Kendra Pierre-Louis, in for Rachel Feltman. Over the past three and a half decades, journalist and author Michael Pollan has written ...

Of all of the top contenders for the hardest problem in science, perhaps the most important to our lived experience is this: What, exactly, is consciousness? Humans have a highly complex brain and, ...

What is consciousness? It is one of the most perplexing questions in science. You would expect our intimacy with it to give us a leg up in understanding how it works, but this has proven to be more of ...

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Here is a possibility worth holding in mind, just for a moment. What if humans are something better than machines? For that matter, what if it isn’t close? In a way, the thought sits uneasily. For ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. Finalists and honorees for the 46th Los Angeles Times Book Prizes were announced Wednesday. Writer-curator Ekow ...