Flipping the calendar from March to April may engender visions of springtime … on the doorstep of, gasp, summer! Yet it also happens to be Stress Awareness Month for many companies and nonprofit ...

Speaking of Alec Wilder (yesterday's post), the composer may have had an inadvertent influence on Artie Shaw's decision to start his Gramercy Five combo in 1940. Forming small jazz groups within big ...

Anyone who attended the Hop Skip and Jump book launch at the Alliance Francaise, last Saturday, will attest to the fact that the Nairobi literary scene is alive and well. The event also showed that ...