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Music Notes / By Colleen Taylor In a world where the Strypes are making retro sounds young again, a Dublin band is reinvigorating nostalgic rock fr...

"Double Agent" author Peter Duffy. PHOTO BY RAN GRAFF By Peter McDermott When the “SS Washington” docked at Pier 59 in New York on Feb. 8, 1940, th...

Peggy Olson (Elizabeth Moss) and Pete Campbell (Vincent Kartheiser) in a scene set in P.J. Clarke's during the first season of “Mad Men.” PHOTO: CA...

EVENTS 1686 – Albany, New York is formally chartered as a municipality by Governor Thomas Dongan. 1864 – American Civil War: Battle of Atlanta – ou...

EVENTS 1848 – Women's rights: a two-day Women's Rights Convention opens in Seneca Falls, New York. 1903 – Maurice Garin wins the first Tour de Fran...

EVENTS 1969 – After a party on Chappaquiddick Island, Senator Ted Kennedy from Massachusetts drives an Oldsmobile off a bridge and his passenger, M...

1938 – Douglas Corrigan takes off from Brooklyn to fly the "wrong way" to Ireland and becomes known as "Wrong Way" Corrigan. 1955 – Disneyland is d...

1. Keep her job in the public service or a bank when she got married. Female civil servants and other public servants (primary teachers from 1958 w...

Page Turner / Edited by Peter McDermott They say: write what you know. Stephan Talty, though, has written about where he knows in his sixth book, w...

Irish-American actor Mark Wahlberg said he is cautious when adopting dialects for film roles since he has witnessed some excruciating imitations of...

A wise woman once said: "Find fitness with fun dancing. It makes you forget about the dreaded exercise." It was Paula Abdul, and if you're wonderin...

Page Turner / Edited by Peter McDermott The protagonist in Yvonne Cassidy’s second novel “What Might Have Been Me” has a decision to make that is a...