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Legendary musician, conductor and composer Michael Tilson Thomas’s Pacific Heights residence has hit the market. The historic mansion at 2670 Pierce Street was Thomas’s home for 32 years, where he lived with his husband and longtime manager, Joshua Robison. Thomas died in April 2026, just two months after Robison’s death. Now, for the first time…

A former 7-Eleven in downtown Seattle has been given an unusual second life as an interactive art shop where familiar convenience-store products have been transformed into deliberately impractical artworks. Called the ‘Inconvenience Store’, the exhibition keeps much of the former shop’s layout, including its aisles, checkout area, refrigerator and hot-food counter, but fills them with…

Neria Leiter, son of Israel’s US ambassador Yechiel Leiter, was seriously injured in a ramming attack in the West Bank on Wednesday.Neria, a reservist in the Israeli military, “needs a miracle,” his father said in a social media post. The ambassador’s older son, Moshe Yedidya Leiter, who also served in the military, was killed in…

Poland knife attack: 1 dead, 4 injured at Benedictine abbey One person was killed and at least four others were injured in a knife attack on the grounds of a Benedictine abbey in southern Poland on Thursday, news agency Reuters cited local media report.A 31-year-old Ukrainian citizen was detained following the attack at the Benedictine…

New York City is as much of a historic gaga as it is a modern icon. For years, the place has been hub to world’s dreamers and believers, art and artists and anyone who wants to make something happen. One of the most popular thing about the city is also its landmarks and one of…

R-Urban Poplar, an ecology hub in east London, features community growing spaces, workshops and gardens on the Teviot Estate. (Image: R-Urban Poplar) A community project in east London is testing an unusual way of turning household food waste into energy. At R-Urban Poplar, an ecology hub on the Teviot Estate, food scraps collected from nearby…

Holderness sued Sarasota County over public access to his private beach near Beach Access 3. (Photos: Suncoast searchlight) In 2016, Florida businessman Michael Holderness began buying four beachfront lots on Siesta Key. A decade and several lawsuits later, those four lots are set to become public beach property under a settlement with Sarasota County, while…

Image: @thesnakeaholic​ A striking clip out of Florida shows a massive invasive female python curled around a mound of eggs, tucked deep in thick ferns. The footage captured wildlife creator thesnakeaholic documenting the snake’s removal after she was found brooding over a hidden nest. The nest turned out to be far more than a spectacle;…

Drivers in Florida are paying more at the pump as petrol prices continue to climb, with some stations already charging more than $5 a gallon for regular gas. On Wednesday, September 23, gas prices at a Delray Beach Shell station hit $5.19 a gallon, Reuters reported. Some rural stations are charging even more.The statewide average…

Mullett is a mother of 10 and also runs an Indigenous food business (Image Credit: gofundme/ Maryanne Mullett) An Ontario mother of 10 who was seriously injured while helping stranded motorists says she received only about C$6,300 from a GoFundMe campaign that raised roughly C$19,000 for her recovery and family. Maryanne Mullett said in an…