Children's activities are planned at branches around the city.

In a Vanity Fair interview, fashion designer John Galliano tries to explain himself publicly for the first time since Dior fired him as creative director two years ago after several instances came to light of him going on anti-Semitic rants.

Alice Walker has written a lot of sentences in her Pulitzer Prize-winning career, but none quite so astonishing as one contained in a recent letter she wrote to Alicia Keys, urging the R and B singer to join the cultural boycott of Israel.

Most final tables offer a little glimmer of doubt regarding the outcome, regardless of who holds the chip lead.