BALTIMORE (AP).- Rocker Frank Zappa was born in Baltimore but gained greater popular acclaim in Europe than in the United States. On Sunday, devout European fans of the late musician brought his mustachioed likeness back home in the form of a bronze bu…
Baltimore Honors Late Rocker Frank Zappa with Bust Donated by Lithuanians
BALTIMORE (AP).- Rocker Frank Zappa was born in Baltimore but gained greater popular acclaim in Europe than in the United States. On Sunday, devout European fans of the late musician brought his mustachioed likeness back home in the form of a bronze bu…
Storm Knocks Down Monumental Tree that Cheered Anne Frank
AMSTERDAM (AP).- The monumental chestnut tree that cheered Anne Frank while she was in hiding from the Nazis was toppled by wind and heavy rain on Monday. The once mighty tree, now diseased and rotted through the trunk, snapped about 3 feet (1 meter) …
New York City on Track for Record Number of Tourists in 2010
NEW YORK (AP).- Tourists are flowing into New York City at a rate that puts the city on track to host a record number of visitors in 2010, officials said Wednesday. City officials said preliminary tourism data show New York is on course to surpass its …
NYC Seeks to Reclaim Notable Central Park Drawings
NEW YORK (AP).- A noted architect’s 19th-century drawings for features in Central Park and other famous public spaces have resurfaced, and officials want them back from a New Jersey real estate broker who says his late father found them in a trash bin …
Save Villa Borghese, Italy Environmentalists Cry
ROME (REUTERS).- Environmental and cultural heritage groups appealed to city officials Thursday to stop the “massacre” of Villa Borghese park by banning pop concerts and big screen events they say lure vandals and lager louts. The villa’s secret garden…
Historic Moulin Rouge Tower Demolished in Vegas
By: Oskar Garcia, Associated Press Writer
LAS VEGAS (AP).- Workers on Thursday demolished the tower of the first racially integrated casino in Las Vegas, one day after city officials turned down an appeal of its owners’ demolition permit. The white tow…
Caravaggio Show Goes Nonstop at Scuderie del Quirinale in Rome
ROME (AP).- Art lovers have been lining up under the stars and the sun as an exhibit of Caravaggio masterpieces goes nonstop for its last days in Rome. After days of seeing the public wait in blocks-long lines in sweltering heat to admire works by the…
Caravaggio Show Goes Nonstop at Scuderie del Quirinale in Rome
ROME (AP).- Art lovers have been lining up under the stars and the sun as an exhibit of Caravaggio masterpieces goes nonstop for its last days in Rome. After days of seeing the public wait in blocks-long lines in sweltering heat to admire works by the…
Caravaggio Show Goes Nonstop at Scuderie del Quirinale in Rome
ROME (AP).- Art lovers have been lining up under the stars and the sun as an exhibit of Caravaggio masterpieces goes nonstop for its last days in Rome. After days of seeing the public wait in blocks-long lines in sweltering heat to admire works by the…