Sometimes people say exactly the right thing. Other times, they don’t, and we just pretend that they did. When eighteenth-century Parisians clamored for bread, did Marie Antoinette respond, “Let them ...

An hour after midnight Jan. 1, as a small brush fire blazed across Topanga State Park, a California State Parks employee texted the Los Angeles Fire Department’s heavy equipment supervisor to find out ...

Written on the spot by Adele when she woke up in the middle of the night, like many of the songs on 21, “Set Fire to the Rain” covered the heartbreak of her first relationship. Recounting all the red ...