This has involved a lot of telling rather than showing. She told us how much she loves “Will & Grace” (one of many NBC properties plugged on the show) and how much she hates seeing “perfect” models on magazine covers at the supermarket “just as I’m loading up with a …

Photo From left, Nate Wooley, Christian Wolff, Kristin Norderval and Michael Pisaro performing at Brooklyn’s Issue Project Room on Sept. 30. Credit Michelle V. Agins/The New York Times Inside the experimental realm, Nate Wooley possesses an obvious star quality. The trumpeter can often be heard in his own well-drilled jazz …

Digby Robert Diehl was born on Nov. 14, 1940, in Boonton, N.J. His father, Edwin, was a writer and advertising executive, and his mother, the former Mary Jane Shirley Ellsworth, was an educator. Photo Among those Mr. Diehl collaborated with was Dan Rather. He graduated from Rutgers University in 1962 …

Ms. León spent Monday morning at Central High School, where former President Bill Clinton and a host of dignitaries honored the eight surviving members of the group, and listened as they shared memories of their harrowing year on the front lines of a civil rights flash point. They spoke with …

This has involved a lot of telling rather than showing. She told us how much she loves “Will & Grace” (one of many NBC properties plugged on the show) and how much she hates seeing “perfect” models on magazine covers at the supermarket “just as I’m loading up with a …

Derek Leung | Getty Images The first attack where a police officer was run over and stabbed by an attacker occurred near the Commonwealth football stadium in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. A man was arrested on Sunday in connection with two “terror” attacks in Canada which saw a several pedestrians hit …

Anne-Christine Poujoulat | AFP | Getty Images The Gare Saint-Charles train station in Marseille, France. French soldiers shot and a killed a man on Sunday after he stabbed to death two women at Marseille’s main train station, the French interior ministry said, in what police sources called a “likely terrorist …

When the couple began looking for an architect, they asked a Cummins colleague who was knowledgeable about design for names. Continue reading the main story He gave them only one: Deborah Berke. A practitioner of emotionally intelligent minimalism who is also dean of Yale University’s architecture school, Ms. Berke and …

Antoine Antoniol | Bloomberg | Getty Images An Airbus A320 aircraft, left, and an Airbus A321, right, stand on the tarmac at Roissy Charles de Gaulle airport in Paris, France. An Air France flight from Paris to Los Angeles made an emergency landing in eastern Canada on Saturday after one …

Still, the curators have taken pains to erase some popular misconceptions. The ancient Egyptians did not worship entire species — not even their splendid cats, whose mummies, well represented in the exhibition, sometimes appear in casings bearing traces of their original gilding. “These weren’t your run-of-the-mill New York City cat …