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 ...

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 ...

“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 ...

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 ...

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.

Fruit trees need to be grown in the right conditions if they're to flower and fruit to their full potential. Bare-root fruit trees are generally cheaper to buy than potted trees, and the time to buy ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Scottish indie band Franz Ferdinand return with their sixth studio record ‘The Human Fear,” which ...

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 ...

Among the better practitioners were Franz Ferdinand, who channelled their art-rock sensibilities into writing some of the era’s catchiest tunes, most notably their breakthrough track ...