Though chaotic, the city’s transition has become a global role model

Chicago’s mustached, Mike Ditka–loving Super Fans became some of the most enduring characters in the history of ‘Saturday Night Live.’ And it all started at Wrigley Field.

The writer joins a list of laureates that includes Toni Morrison, Samuel Beckett and Bob Dylan.

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When asked about humanity’s future relationship with computers, Marvin Minsky famously replied “If we’re lucky, they might decide to keep us as pets”. A number of eminent authorities continue to argue...

Urban elites with a fancy hobby teamed up with rural farmers in a movement that transformed the country.

The notion of enduring the summer rather than embracing it has spread far beyond the Sun Belt.

On June 29, NCNOMA presents The Cipher: Jazz, Hip-Hop, and the Making of Place—a conversation about what music knows about community that architecture is still trying to figure out. Three panelists. O...

We were saddened to learn of the death of Donlyn Lyndon, an influential architect and cofounder of <em>Places. </em>Harrison Fraker, who knew Donlyn well as a colleague and friend, shared with us his ...

We are back. Help us kick off Bike Month 2026 with the Bull City Bike Stampede. Join us at noon at Crank Arm Durham as we roll out for what we hope will be the largest group ride in the Triangle....

For the inaugural event of the 2025–26 academic year, the Critical Speaker Series of Department of English & Comparative Literature (ECL) partnered with the Department of Classics to welcome Dan-el Pa...

Emily Singeisen contextualizes AI, a technologically novel way of exploiting language, within some very old fantasies.

ALT: a man singing into a microphone with the words that 's the thing i 'm sensitive about below him

When we last brought you word of the SS United States, the future of the storied vessel was unclear. Since 1996, the 990 foot (302 meter) ship — the largest ocean liner ever to be constructed…

Cycling has been a part of that good life in Copenhagen for decades. In recent years, it has enjoyed yet another unfathomable surge in popularity — taken to the next level thanks to constantly improvi...

But we are going to start talking about it right here in a series about dangerous design.