(11/06/09) The Grammy Award-winning African American female a cappella ensemble Sweet Honey in the Rock performs Saturday night in Hosmer Hall at SUNY-Potsdam. Todd Moe talks with Ysaye Barnwell about the group's unique mix of spirituals, hymns, jazz, blues, Hip Hop and African chants.
Blacksmith David Woodward sets in place the final piece of the weather vane he made for the Adirondack Carousel in Saranac Lake, which opens Saturday at 1 pm with a ribbon-cutting ceremony. Photo: Mark Kurtz.
In Joseph Kanon's new spy thriller, <em>Istanbul Passage</em>, former intelligence aide Leon Bauer is caught in the complexities of post-World War II life, in a story of moral compromise and shifting loyalties.
U.S. oil production has been on the rise, and that's been widely noted. But the same is true throughout the Americas, which are now home to four of the world's top nine producers.
Spaniards love their soccer and it has provided a diversion during the economic crisis. But a government desperate for cash is now demanding that teams pay taxes they were evading.
The alderman in the 49th Ward became the first elected official in the country to hand over the purse strings to his constituents in 2009. Three years later, the "participatory budgeting" experiment is still attracting in new residents to...
Patrick Fitzgerald, the federal prosecutor who went after the Gambino crime family, al-Qaida and the White House in court — not to mention several Illinois politicians — is leaving his job as U.S. attorney in Chicago.
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