Canadian police say a member of the public who took an Ontario transit bus for a joyride, with about 10 passengers still onboard, didn’t even leave “a ding.” Police say the man, who drove the ...

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NORTH CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCBD) – Barnyard Chicken, a family-owned business that offers a variety of chicken dishes, announced Thursday the closure of its Park Circle restaurant. “With heavy hearts, ...

NORTH CHARLESTON — A Spruill Avenue restaurant that opened last summer will close at the end of the month. Barnyard Chicken, led by chef Eric Hara, will serve its last customers on Nov. 1. The ...

“Joyride,” her new book, started as a guide for aspiring journalists, but turned into a full-fledged memoir about her high-flying life and career. By Sarah Lyall When your subject is the writer Susan ...

Susan Orlean doesn’t color inside the lines. Consider her seminal work of nonfiction, The Orchid Thief — the inspiration for the equally beloved yet even more unconventional film, Adaptation — which ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

Susan Orlean’s “Joyride” might be the best craft book on writing you will ever read. It’s not written as a craft book, of course; it’s a memoir, and an entertaining one at that. But it is a memoir ...

If you’ve ever read a Susan Orlean book — “The Orchid Thief,” “Rin Tin Tin” or “The Library Book,” say — and didn’t want it to end, here’s good news. There’s more. Her memoir, “Joyride,” a chronicle ...

Just over a year ago, Joyride the musical had its world premiere at Malmö Opera on a sunny and warm September day. Unfortunately, the Stockholm premiere was hit by persistent rain, so the festive ...

The Oak and the Larch: A Forest History of Russia and Its Empires This rigorous account from historian Mazower (The Greek Revolution) explores antisemitism from its 19th-century emergence as a ...

A man was arrested after officials said he took an airport cart and rammed it through the moving walkways at Buffalo Niagara International Airport in New York. Kevin J. Sinning, 29, of Wyoming, was ...