Milan’s Teatro alla Scala celebrates its gala season premiere with a Russian opera, Dmitry Shostakovich’s “Lady Macbeth of ...

Squeezing a spot or plucking out a nose hair could land you in hospital with a life-threatening infection. It may sound extreme, but there is a high-risk area on the face called the “triangle of death ...

I was about 15 when someone first disrespected my nose. It was during a mock German exam in our freezing cold, hellishly spare gym hall. A classmate glared at me, honking on a huge, imaginary clown ...

It is probably no surprise to you that stress is a major driver of illness, including mental health conditions like anxiety and depression and physical ones such as heart disease. We urgently need ...

At the BBC Proms in September, the Albert Hall will stage a concert performance of Dmitri Shostakovich’s controversial 1934 opera, Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District. Based on Nikolai Leskov’s 1865 ...

Despite the Concorde being discontinued well over two decades ago, it remained ahead of its time and became a much-discussed aircraft among aviation enthusiasts and the general public. Its popularity ...

What is the “nose ring theory”? The “nose ring theory,” or “septum theory,” refers to the unfounded notion that people with septum piercings are marked by trauma and suffer from “mental illness.” The ...

Not everyone looks at the long-vacant husk of a former convenience store and gets visions of string quartets and piano recitals. But that’s exactly how it happened for Seth Boustead, the head of ...

When guns speak, the muses keep silent, says an old Russian proverb. Last winter, as he listened to the roar of German artillery and watched the sputtering of German incendiaries from the roof of ...

If you've ever zoomed in on a MotoGP rider's picture in a helmet, maybe you've watched MotoGP Unlimited and noticed riders with it, or spotted a photo from the pit lane, you may have noticed something ...

Guest conductor Jonathon Heyward leads the Dallas Symphony Orchestra with pianist Benjamin Grosvenor at the Meyerson Symphony Center on May 15, 2025. Sylvia Elzafon / Dallas Symphony Orchestra Well, ...

Pardon my language but where the heck was everyone? It’s very possible that a potent double-shot of often gloomy Russian composers — i.e. Alfred Schnittke and Dmitri Shostakovich — didn’t mesh with ...