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A family who embraced a new beginning in Sydney now faces heartbreak after their teenage girl died in an Australia Day boat crash.

With a gobsmacking rooftop view down 16th Street NW all the way to the White House and the Washington Monument beyond, the Kimpton Banneker Hotel occupies an enviable spot in the nation’s capital. Mason Studio’s recent $20 million overhaul of the 16-story boutique property—formerly the Kimpton Rouge—has leveraged that insider position by celebrating local art, culture, and character.

Kentucky school boards would be required to hold public comment periods at their meetings under a bill given initial approval in committee Thursday.

Downtown  Arrokoth opened at Tinney Contemporary on April 16, and continues at the 5th Avenue of the Arts space through May 29. Harding forms his sculptures from the wood of fallen trees, turning them into extraterrestrial-seeming artifacts on metal stands that look a lot like the landing gear on sci-fi Golden Age-era flying saucers. The show’s title references the most remote celestial object ever visited by a space probe. The exhibition’s natural materials and Harding’s smo...

Teatru Manoel is soon set to raise the curtain on Dido and Aeneas as this year’s beloved annual opera – and Malta’s historic national theatre has overcome all odds to bring it to the stage. Laura Bonnici finds out more.  A tragic tale of love and loss, royalty and witches, stormy seas and magical misdirection. Although this sounds like the makings of a modern hit movie, in fact, this dramatic story thrilled its first audiences on stage more than 300 years ago.  Such are the universal a...