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The Edgar Allan Poe Foundation of Boston announced this month that sculptor Stefanie Rocknak's "Poe Returning To Boston" will officially be unveiled Oct. 5. The piece features the writer holding an open briefcase with a large raven beside him.

Dale Schultz tells a story he heard about a recent meeting of Republicans in the state's 6th Congressional District.

A forgotten Broadway musical will get its European premiere after a University of Sheffield student worked through boxes of neglected manuscripts to reconstruct the score, which has not been heard anywhere in the world since 1962.

Author Dan Guillory is scheduled to give a program of poems, notes and stories at the site's Visitor Center Auditorium on April 26. He is an emeritus professor of English at Millikin University in Decatur and the author of "The Lincoln Poems."

Inspired by queer avant-garde artist, activist and filmmaker, Jarman invades the mind and artistic aesthetic of Derek Jarman to create a poetic and visually dynamic mash-up of video and live performance.

First lady Mary Todd Lincoln once confessed that her "evil genius Procrastination has whispered me to tarry 'til a more convenient season."

Phillip Hayes Dean, a playwright, director and theater actor who wrote the play "Paul Robeson" that starred James Earl Jones on Broadway in 1978, has died in Los Angeles.

It's time for federal Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz to "go back to the future" to find a lasting solution to the crisis in the grain transportation sector.

Hipster, flipsters and finger-poppin' daddies, it's time to slip your orbs toward one Lord Buckley.

It sounds like another Hollywood couple may be having their own version of that proverbial "seven year itch" play out for the whole world to see.

Sean Maher, an actor, best known for his role as Simon Tam in the science fiction television series "Firefly" and follow-up movie "Serenity,: was born April 16, 1975.

Sculptor Stefanie Rocknak was chosen out of 265 artists to create a commemorative statue of Edgar Allen Poe to go up in the Boston neighborhood where he was born, and she has just unveiled the final design of her amazing statue.

Today's Paper, also known as the e-Edition, is an online replica of the printed newspaper.

Today is known as Tax Day aka the day where you better get those taxes finished.

Emoticons might not be an invention of the computer age. They might be stowaways from a clever 17th century poet.

The PBS documentary The Trials of Muhammad Ali , which airs on WETA on Monday, April 14, 2014 at 10 p.m. , covers the boxing champ's struggles outside the ring during the tumultuous mid-1960s, when his refusal to serve in the military during the Vietnam War led to him being stripped of his title, and nearly cost him his freedom.

Arthur Penn's " Bonnie and Clyde " is a movie that transformed American cinema as audiences know it today.

Acting icon Robert De Niro and crooner Michael Buble were honoured for their philanthropic efforts at Muhammad Ali's Celebrity Fight Night on Saturday .

North-western fountain in the square Louis-XIII, at the center of the place des Vosges, Paris, France.

Teddy Roosevelt died in 1919. Doris Kearns Goodwin was not born until 1943, but to hear her tell it, she spent the better part of seven years living with the legendary U.S. president.