According to the Tohoku region’s Bureau of Economy, Trade and Industry, kokeshi (koh-keh-shee) originated in the late Edo period, which ended in 1868, in the area’s hot-spring villages, where ...

Creative hobbies are a great way to minimize screen time, and these ideas will produce items you can display in your home, ...

A group of artists from across the United States will be gathering in Homer from mid to late March on a collective artist residency titled “Coastal Contrasts & Sacredness of Place.” Founding members ...

Tucked away in Painter, a tiny town on Virginia’s Eastern Shore that you’ve probably driven past without a second thought, this antique wonderland is the kind of place that makes you wonder why you ...

Stowe wrote “Uncle Tom’s Cabin,” which was one of the most influential novels of its era. She and Twain were neighbors and ...

Fractal burning, also known as Lichtenberg wood burning, uses high voltage electricity to create branching lightning like patterns. The electrical discharge travels through dampened wood, leaving ...

VIJAYAPURA : Bent over a slab of dark granite, carefully chiselling the name of the deceased with practiced precision, 54-year-old Abdul Aziz Kadkol represents a fading tradition of hand-crafted stone ...

Sometimes a boxer needs one fight too many to realise it is over. This may be that fight for Josh Warrington. While a few can walk away after great wins, many participants in this sport need to feel ...

If you think you know everything there is to know, think again. The world can very often be a strange and unusual place. And no matter how intelligent and experienced you are, there will always be ...

In October 2008, Chris Bretherton lifted off from the coast of northern Chile in a C-130 turboprop plane. It was too dark to see the sandy hills of the Atacama Desert below, but the darkness suited ...

Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor is facing a shopping headache as Waitrose delivery drivers are 'pulling straws' to decide who drops off his orders. Andrew, who moved into his temporary home at Wood Farm on ...