Beardsley Park Plaza, a commercial building with four retail spaces at 2652 E. Main St., in Bridgeport, has sold for $2.25 million, according to city records. 2652 Group LLC, controlled by Gaetano ...

A record-breaking Stradivarius has sold for $23 million (£17.8 million), the highest sum ever paid for a violin. The 1715 ‘Baron Knoop’, hailed for its quality, volume and articulation, was crafted ...

The most brilliant illustrator of his day and, with Oscar Wilde, the outstanding figure of the 1890s 'decadence', Aubrey Vincent Beardsley died, aged only twenty-five, very early in the morning of ...

The Six Words that epitomize woodwind artist Rahsaan Barber's fifth recording as a leader came to him via trumpeter Wynton Marsalis: “There is power in this music." And as Barber affirms on this ...

Eleanor Beardsley is the Paris correspondent for National Public Radio where she covers all aspects of French society, politics, economics, culture and gastronomy. She is also a core part of NPR's ...