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THE LEAKWritten by Kate Reed PettyIllustrated by Andrea Bell As a nosy kid in Wisconsin with endless unstructured outdoor time, I occupied myself with the comings and goings of my [...]

CORRECTION APPENDEDIn the nearly 40 years since the premiere of ''Jaws,'' defenders of the great white shark have tried diligently to repair the animal's reputation. The sharks are not all [...]

To subway riders feeling impatient, restless or a little destructive, the print advertisements lining the walls of a station can make irresistible targets. Kevin Shea Adams, a photographer, began taking [...]

For thousands of delivery people in New York, work is hectic, usually anonymous and often perilous when it involves bicycles. Young Jang, a photographer, orchestrated rare moments of sustained contact [...]

The Broadway success of ''Hedwig and the Angry Inch'' suggests that gender-bending male performance has moved closer to the American mainstream, but it has also been flourishing in clubs around [...]

Rachael Ubiera, a 25-year-old in Kissimmee, Fla., considers herself ''one of the relaxed moms.'' But the first time she saw her 5-month-old daughter, Zoe, carefully dropped underwater in a pool [...]

The ''duck and cover'' drills of the 1950s, when American schoolchildren crawled under their desks in preparation for a nuclear bomb, have given way to regular lockdown drills in many [...]

The Sept. 11 memorial and museum's location at ground zero in Lower Manhattan is one of its most notable features, according to Steven M. Davis, a partner at Davis Brody [...]

A century ago, handball was one of the most beloved sports in Ireland, its typical three-walled alley, or court, a fixture in villages and at crossroads. But these were ''more [...]

Flush with time and money to spend, the well-to-do beneficiaries of Brazil's recent boom times are eagerly traveling abroad. In 2013, an estimated 895,000 Brazilians visited New York, shopping for [...]

Most views of a major-league baseball game are as traditional as the game itself, the cameramen sidelined in pens next to the dugouts. To see the game from some new [...]

In the early 1930s, when the writer Paul Bowles first visited Tangier, Morocco, where he would end up living for more than a half-century, he described its medina, or old [...]

Dancers in the New York City Ballet spend their days rehearsing in a large theater that, as legend goes, was designed to be blocked off from natural light for a [...]

In 1997, Rachel Kolberg was newly married, pregnant and living in Tel Aviv when she went to her first yoga class. It was a revelation. Her husband, Avraham, soon began [...]

There is perhaps no event more anticipated in Gujarat, a state in India's northwest, than the International Kite Festival every January. Residents prepare for months, making kites in bright colors, [...]

Every winter, hundreds of thousands of tourists visit the Harbin Ice and Snow World in northeast China, near the Songhua River, to see its vast collection of elaborately carved ice [...]

The razing of New York's Penn Station in 1963 still ranks as one of the city's great architectural disasters. At the time, The New York Times wrote, ''We will probably [...]

Byline: JULIE BOSMAN Ms. Mantel, the author of the bestselling historical novels 'Wolf Hall' and 'Bring Up the Bodies,' will release a collection of short stories called 'The Assassination of [...]

The legacy of Oscar Niemeyer, the Brazilian architect who died in 2012 at the age of 104, is most familiarly seen in the Modernist buildings he designed for Brasilia, the [...]

Mikaiah and Anaiah Lei, the brothers from Los Angeles who make up the band the Bots, have been writing and playing rock songs together for seven years. Now 20 and [...]

If it's small, cheap and made of plastic, it can probably be found in Yiwu, a city in China's southeastern Zhejiang province. The marketplace there, called China Commodity City, claims [...]

While some neighbors fought the development of 150 Charles Street, a luxury condominium building in the West Village that will open in 2015, the photographer Jan Staller, who lives across [...]

Byline: JULIE BOSMAN The TV and radio host's new book, 'Death of a King,' was acquired by Little, Brown and Company and will show 'the real Martin, a man hounded [...]

There are a few generally accepted principles when it comes to the etiquette of spending the night in a vehicle in a Walmart parking lot. One night only. No chairs [...]

Table tennis began in 19th-century Victorian England as a parlor game for the upper-middle class -- the lids of cigar boxes were used as paddles. Since then the game achieved [...]

Byline: JULIE BOSMAN The winner of the prize -- which is open to writers from Britain, Ireland or one of the Commonwealth nations -- will be named at a ceremony [...]

Ian Fleming took the name ''James Bond'' from the author of a 1936 book, ''Birds of the West Indies,'' that he stumbled across in Jamaica. It was the perfect moniker [...]

An almost startling intimacy characterized the smoky jazz clubs in places like Chicago and Cleveland around 1950. Billie Holiday relaxed on a banquette; Ella Fitzgerald sang on small stages, mere [...]

In the 1920s, Coco Chanel hopped on the Duke of Westminster's yacht for a holiday on the Riviera and returned to Paris with a tan, thereby popularizing the golden-brown look. [...]

Nunca and Os Gmeos are among the most famous practitioners of Brazilian street art: their work, which can now be found in cities all over the world, received a kind [...]

The Battle of Gettysburg, a turning point in the Civil War, was fought in July 1863 over three days of unrelenting heat, smoke and death. ''The ground was soaked with [...]

In January 2009, an anthropologist named Jason De Len began spending a lot of time near the United States border south of Tucson. On the Mexican side, he interviews would-be [...]

It happens twice a year: before the sun sets, it hits a point just above the horizon for a few moments where its rays are in perfect alignment with the [...]

Adults wear sunscreen to reduce the threat of sun damage, skin cancer, uneven tan lines and wrinkles. Children wear it because they have to. Inspired by seeing his niece resist [...]

It didn't take long after ''Saturday Night Live'' began in 1975 before it was ''a bit of a pain'' for the cast to walk around together in New York, according [...]

The Equity Project charter school Incoming class in 2009: 124 fifth graders Outgoing class in 2013: 107 eighth graders annual Teacher salary: $125,000 school facility: 30 red trailers students who [...]

The beauty that's in the eye of the beholder can still use a little help from those who do the combing, cutting, highlighting and blow-drying. Ines Pabon was among the [...]

Byline: JULIE BOSMAN Ms. Davis, an American writer known for very short stories, was cited by the judges for stories that 'embrace many a kind.'' To view this article at [...]

Back in the '90s, when the riot grrrl movement started, one of its catalysts was Kathleen Hanna, from the band Bikini Kill. Earlier this spring, Hanna was the subject of [...]

When the sisters Merrilee Lichtenstein Cohen and Rachel Cohen-Lunning were growing up in White Rock, British Columbia, in the 1950s, they used to play with chemicals that a scientifically inclined [...]

Vance Evans, a 66-year-old retiree from Bakersfield, Calif., has been eating double cheeseburgers at McDonald's since he flipped them himself as a teenager. ''I have a kindred spirit in them,'' [...]

For centuries, falcons have been revered in the Middle East for their beauty, fierce demeanor and superb hunting ability. So it is fitting that Abu Dhabi, the capital of the [...]

Byline: JULIE BOSMAN World Book Night is the publishing industry's annual giveaway, with books going to nursing homes, schools and firehouses, among other places. To view this article at nytimes.com, [...]

Tom Waits drives fast, one-handed, while talking, according to the photographer Anton Corbijn, his longtime collaborator and sometime highway companion. ''It's quite dangerous,'' Corbijn says. ''He tries to hit people. [...]

In the ranch country of the Texas Panhandle, it's not unusual for parents to hold their babies in a saddle as soon as they're big enough to sit up. As [...]

If the basketball court is a stage, one of its star performers is often the head coach, arms waving, face red, mouth open wide as he shouts over the din [...]

For Hindus, the Kumbh Mela festival in Allahabad in northern India has an obvious allure: future blessings and a cleansing of sins in the waters where the Ganges and Yamuna [...]

After years of gradually gaining acceptance, moving from pay-per-view broadcasts into high¡-school athletics and the U.S. military, mixed martial arts will reach a new milestone this month with the Ultimate [...]

Expensive, polluted and brutally cold in winter, Moscow has a well-earned reputation as a harsh place to live. In recent years, however, local officials have tried to smooth its sharp [...]

What would New York or Shanghai look like with a full sky of brilliant stars? Thierry Cohen, a French photographer, thinks he can show us by blending city scenes -- [...]