Growing hornbeam trees offers environmental benefits like air purification and wildlife support due to their resilient nature. American and European hornbeam varieties differ in size, bark ...

“We all do things that we wish we hadn’t done,” Alex Kapranos purrs at the end of the new Franz Ferdinand album, but it sounds like his regrets are too few to mention. The Scottish mod ...

Still shamelessly livin’ it up, with an eyebrow cocked and high kicks galore, ‘The Human Fear’ is – as promised – Franz-y as fuck. You do you, hun; you do it so well.

The Scottish band’s sixth album summons the vintage swagger and suave humor of its early work but little of the punkish exhilaration. Franz Ferdinand transitioned gracefully to legacy act.

The area that is now Joshua Tree National Park wasn’t always a desert. During the Great Ice Age, also known as the Pleistocene Epoch, there were rivers and lakes as well as Columbian mammoths ...

Lily Fontaine’s friends placed bets on whether her band English Teacher’s debut album would win the 2024 Mercury Prize. The odds were astonishingly good – bookies pegged the post-punk outfit from ...

Franz Kafka, an Austrian-Czech novelist and one of the most prominent short story writers of the early 20th century, is celebrated for his nightmarish portrayals of isolation, bureaucracy and ...

The Franz Ferdinand of 2025 look decidedly different than the one that overtook student-disco danceloors 20-plus years ago. With the departures of guitarist Nick McCarthy in 2016 and drummer Paul ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Franz Kafka’s handsome face, with its patrician cheekbones, tremendous dark eyes and vaguely ironic ...

Lorraine J. (Gallant) Fontaine, 96, of Worcester, passed away peacefully on Tuesday, January 7, 2025 in The Christopher House after an illness. Mrs. Fontaine was married for 65 years to her loving ...

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Every tree tells a story, but some are beyond eloquent, holding memories, embodying belief, marking sorrow. We hold trees in our imagination, where they grow in strange, wonderful ways in forests ...