Fans of English novelist Jane Austen are celebrating her birth 250 years ago, on 16 December 1775. Nowadays, she's a pop culture phenomenon and, with 'Austenmania' spreading, French "Janeites" have ...

Partygoers ditched pop music and booze for a string quartet and tea cakes at a dance in Glen Ellyn, kicking off a week of parties around the author’s 250th birthday. It is a truth universally ...

A group of ladies and a few gentlemen in Regency-era formalwear stand in two lines facing each other. They perform bows and curtsies before engaging in a precise choreography. The hushed noise of ...

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On a chilly December night in Sandy Spring, Md., dozens of people crammed into the Woodlawn Manor for a Victorian-era Yuletide dance lesson, the wood floors creaking under the uncertain steps of ...

English as a Second Language tutoring at the Phoenicia Library, 48 Main St., Phoenicia, runs every Thursday from 6 p.m. to 7 p.m., with librarian Susan teaching English to those who ...

That’s the word from state analysts trying to figure out if there are enough power sources to keep the lights on in coming years, my colleague Brett Chase reports for the Chicago Sun-Times. The ...

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