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Review: Titus Andronicus, 'The Most Lamentable Tragedy'

Shakespeare references, a cappella intermissions and sprawling 10-minute tracks aren't what first spring to mind when thinking about punk albums. But most punk albums aren't remotely like this one.

Tiptoeing Along A Balance Beam: Writing And Illustrating A Children's Book

Gabrielle Emanuel, a first-time author, sets out to write a culturally appropriate book for children in Mali — and learns a lot about how words and pictures go together to tell a story.

The Del Mar Thoroughbred Club's season kicks off, July 17, 2014.

New Fall Horse Racing Season Begins At Del Mar Racetrack

The Bing Crosby Season will run through Nov. 30. The dates for the Bing Crosby Season had previously gone to now-closed Hollywood Park in Inglewood.

Anti-Brexit supporters dressed as bananas protest outside a racecourse in York, England. "It is absolutely crazy that the EU is telling us what shape our bananas have got to be," says Brexit's foremost cheerleader, Boris Johnson, the former mayor of London, invoking one of the oldest and most persistent tall tales about EU bureaucracy.

Bendy Bananas And Barmaid Bosoms: The U.K.'s Crazy Anti-EU Food Myths

British tabloids have long exploited the U.K.'s ambivalent ties to the European Union with exaggerated, funny and often unfounded stories about regulations aiming to undo English food culture.

The Windsor Court Hotel in New Orleans began holding afternoon tea in 1984. A representative says the hotel held daily afternoon tea times until Hurricane Katrina struck in 2005.

From Raucous To Ritzy: A Brief History Of Christmas Tea

In some fancy hotels, Christmas tea has become a refined respite for harried shoppers. But the tradition's roots are much rowdier: efforts to fight public drunkenness.

A tea lady brings round refreshments for British office workers in the 1970s. All over the U.K., the arrival of the tea ladies with trolleys loaded with a steaming tea urn and a tray of cakes or buns was the high point of the workday.

When Britain Fought Against The Tyranny Of Tea Breaks

British tea drinking is on the decline. U.K. leaders might have welcomed such news in the 1970s, when the length of the tea break became a major point of political contention.

Dan Vyleta's new book <em>Smoke</em> imagines a world where vice is made visible, in the form of curling black Smoke.

'Smoke' Author Dan Vyleta Keeps It Messy

Dan Vyleta's new novel imagines a world where inner faults and sins are made visible by black smoke curling from bodies. He says his big, sprawling narratives were inspired by the works of Dickens.

Labour Party leader Ed Miliband and his wife Justine leave the polling station after voting at Sutton Village Hall, Doncaster, England on Thursday.

Britons Go To The Polls In What's Predicted To Be A Nail-Biter

The latest polls put the ruling Conservative Party led by David Cameron neck-and-neck with the Labour Party led by Ed Miliband. Polls close at 5 p.m. ET.

A farm owner inspects his tobacco crop in the sun. While Zimbabwe's tobacco production has made something of a turnaround lately, journalist Peta Thornycroft says much of the country's troubles since 2000 have been tied to failures in its capital-intensive tobacco farms.

To Ease An Economic Meltdown, Zimbabwe Considers Returning Farmland

In 2000, the country launched a campaign that seized thousands of white-owned farms. The move helped send Zimbabwe into an economic tailspin. But now, some of those farmers may get that land back.

'The Mark And The Void' Is Good Fun — Until It Isn't

Paul Murray's absurdist tale of banking, art theft and failed schemes might be the funniest book about the European financial crisis you'll read all year — but it's bloated by too many subplots.

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