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A 30-year-old still “living his best life” The story of Wilson, a 30-year-old Clydesdale/TB whose enthusiasm for jumping has made many question his age, has captured our readers’ attention. Owned by Jonathan Bagg for the past 25 years, the gelding was only registered with British Showjumping five years ago, but since then he has been […]

Meet Wilson, the half-Clydesdale who is “living his best life” as he continues to showjump his enthusiastic way across Scotland aged 30. Jonathan Bagg, who has owned the 17.1hh half-thoroughbred gelding for 25 years, told H&H he has been pulled up by British Showjumping (BS) judges as they struggle to believe how old Wilson is. […]

Better disclosure is needed. Too often flight delays become a blame game with much finger-pointing and little clarity about the true reason for the problem.

NAV CANADA is looking to recruit more air traffic controllers and grow its workforce. There are 10 to 15 vacancies in the Atlantic region at the moment.

Like many young boys, Frank McCarty had a penchant for playing with toy cars. He would tinker with the toys, taking the motor out of one and gluing it into

Communities in Metro Vancouver and beyond could be hearing less airplane noise under an initiative to streamline flight arrivals and departures at Vancouver International Airport.

Before she was a poet, Tsitsi Jaji was a pianist. The associate professor of English grew up surrounded by song in her native Zimbabwe. Her father conducted choirs. Her mother introduced her to the piano at age 5, and Jaji went on to study piano performance at the Oberlin Conservatory of Music.

In 1933, the Chicago Symphony premiered composer Florence Price’s award-winning Symphony No. 1. It was a milestone in performance history, making Price the first African-American woman to have a large-scale work presented by a major U.S. orchestra. Although she continued to compose until her death in 1953, many of Price’s subsequent pieces were performed by “women’s symphonies,” all-female ensembles that filled a niche separate from the male space of top professional orchestras.

Around lunchtime on a recent Wednesday, as students, staff and faculty hustled to class or appointments, a few dozen Duke community members spread out amid the pews of Goodson Chapel to savor the sound of the Ciompi Quartet. As the four faculty members in the Quartet played selections from composers Carlos Chávez and Silverstre Revueltas, the sound of the quartet’s cello, viola and violins filled the space and felt as warm and illuminating as the sunshine that poured through the windows.

Local arts groups have been awarded grants from the New Hampshire Council on the Arts to help promote access to art-based activities and performances as part of its Arts for Community Engagement program.“We use it to help grease the wheels, so to...