Love is a universal emotion, but different cultures express it in unique ways. In Japanese, there are multiple words for love ...

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Some of the newest Bay Area coffee and tea spots are pushing the creativity envelope, offering drinks such as Corn Lattes and ...

Sure, you could get your morning joe at Starbucks or stick one of those pods in the gizmo. But wouldn't it be more interesting to explore a coffee or tea house that offers something out of the ...

Our Poetry Book of the Month reviews include two ... What her work shares with O’Hara’s, here, is a love of life and living, even in moments of poverty, crisis and pain. That, and an ability ...

A one-stop shop for wagyu, sashimi, and all the Japanese snacks you could dream of is now open in Tysons. Marufuji, a spinoff of a small family-owned grocery chain that started in Connecticut, offers ...

Hours after @TheRoyalFamily Instagram account unveiled a new portrait of King Charles to commemorate Burns Night—the celebration of the life and work of Scotland's bard, Robert Burns—the Prince and ...

Christine Wald-Hopkins “1700 Syllables: One Hundred Haiku: A Collection of Poetic Observations ... syllables/ I count in my sleep”) to poems in five categories — nature, nostalgia ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Japanese champion Naoya Inoue, right, punches South Korea challenger Ye Joon Kim during the unified WBC IBF ...

A poem, or line of poetry, that I return to: Robert Hass’s translations of three great Japanese haiku poets: Matsuo Bashō, Yosa Buson, and Kobayashi Issa. Hass has so few words to work with ...