Big Blue thinking White House

INDIANAPOLIS — Winning Super Bowl XLVI would mean the Giants would be able to meet President Obama at the White House. And they’d be pretty excited about that. “That’s one of my dreams when he got elected president,” cornerback Aaron Ross said. “That was one of the things I...

On the Vodun Trail in Benin

WE were driving through the back alleys of Ouidah, a sultry former slave port in the West African nation of Benin, when we spotted him: a figure in robes and leather gloves. His face was hidden by a burlap hood studded with beads and cowrie shells. A teenage boy carrying a wooden stick was leading him past peach-colored houses shaded by coconut palms and mango trees.

Making a Hanover-area house a home

This house - known as the Jacobs House on Jacobs Mill Road, just east of Hanover - now belongs to Nathan Keefer. And the 32-year-old says the search for the house's history has rejuvenated him.

Mondrian and Nicholson: an artistic journey along parallel lines

When Ben Nicholson invited his Dutch mentor to live in London, it kicked off an intense artistic dialogue. Now a new exhibition explores their shared concerns and the way their paths diverged Where were the paparazzi in September 1938? They should have been thick on the ground outside 60 Parkhill Road in Hampstead, for that month one of the 20th century's most audacious painters, Piet Mondrian ...

Artist Mel Leipzig to show paintings at Pennington School

Noted artist Mel Leipzig will exhibit a collection of his paintings, entitled Mothers, at The Pennington School’s Silva Gallery of Art.