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A $73,800 grant will fund outdoor musical instruments at six Monroe County library branches, creating new spaces for play and ...

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Utah State University Professor Anhong Zhou has been awarded a major grant designed to help youth get more excited about agriculture and careers in food production. The funding from the USDA’s ...

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In the summer of 2024, Lacy Beane woke up in the ICU at Johns Hopkins Hospital. The 32-year-old had been in a coma for weeks, slowly recovering after a severe case of sepsis had led to multisystem ...

On October 30, 2023, shortly before my sixty-ninth birthday, I stepped into a music store a few minutes from my house, in the southern suburbs of Milan, to buy a mandolin. At first, I thought that I ...

Angelo Freire has spent most of his life slightly out of view, shaping the sound of contemporary fado from the place where it is built rather than displayed. A prodigy of the Portuguese guitar, he has ...

This book isn't enough to teach me a new skill, so I reached out to some Houston music friends Credit: Jesse Sendejas, Jr. I frequently write about music and my kids are in bands so I’m often asked if ...