#World War II

#World War II

Image Installed on the grounds of Waddesdon Manor in southeast England, Joana Vasconcelos's nearly 40-foot-high sculpture Wedding Cake (2023) walks the line between patisserie and architecture.Credit...A Rothschild House and Garden.Photo: Chris Lacey The Portuguese artist Joana Vasconcelos is known for her ambitious oversize sculptures that frequently elevate everyday objects.

This image released by Knopf shows Robert Gottlieb.Gottlieb, the inspired and eclectic literary editor whose brilliant career was launched with Joseph Heller's Catch-22 and continued for decades with such Pulitzer Prize-winning classics as Toni Morrison's Beloved and Robert Caro's The Power Broker, has died at age 92.

Last fall, while cleaning a relative's home in Los Angeles, a California family stumbled upon $10,000, roughly but it wasn't so simple to collect the treasure.It came in the form of an estimated one million pennies stored in dozens of bags and boxes.Nine months later, the family is still trying to find a way to cash the coins in.

The view from the Jerome C. Daniel Overlook on Mulholland Drive.Willem Verbeeck for NPR To live and die in LA is to have driven and parked in this city.Most Angelenos have probably had their fair share of morning coffees, meaningful conversations, and midnight kisses in their cars, giving rise to a whole new definition of "parking."

Albums from John Mellencamp and Killer Mike, as well as the return of Chris Hemsworth's gun-for-hire anti-hero in Netflix's Extraction 2 are among the new television, movies, music and games headed to a device near you.Among the offerings worth your time as selected by The Associated Press' entertainment journalists are season two of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, and new The Wonder Years, about a middle-class Black family in Montgomery, Alabama, in the 1960s, returns for its second season.

Spring this year has been a particular joy for touring singers like me.The cloud of Covid seems to have evaporated: Restrictions have been lifted, audiences have (nervously) returned and the prospect of being stranded in foreign parts with a positive test is gone, not to mention the diminishing threat of serious or voice-impacting illness.