The potential for warmer spring temperatures during maple season creates concerns about how to keep sap cool. With a grant ...

Jerry Brewer, who has been writing columns for 22 years, has joined The Athletic and wants to raise his game in an era that favors attention over nuance. Courtesy of Lydia Brewer For the last six ...

Growing up, I played soccer, basketball, field hockey and tennis — sports I know and understand well. I also grew up in a British household where the term “football” referred to soccer rather than the ...

I’m going to need 2025 to put me out of my misery. I promise I’m trying not to be that old “get off my lawn” guy, fist shaking at clouds, mad at everything. But this year put my sanity, sobriety and ...

With two weeks left in the season, the NFL playoff picture has started to clear up, but there are still some wrinkles left to smooth out. All but three playoff spots are clinched, but no team has ...

Every year around this time, the noise starts to drop. The pace eases a bit. Families gather, neighbors reconnect and people who disagree on just about everything still manage to pass plates across ...

I once loved the Nicole Kidman monologue before movies at AMC. But it’s shorter now. There’s less magic, there’s fewer lights beginning to dim. Nicole Kidman’s passion-poetry for the big screen is now ...

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Once upon a time, I was asked at the place where I work part time to create a pronunciation guide to some common words. I consider myself an “adequate” speller of words since that’s my profession, but ...