Doing business like this takes much more effort than doing your own business at home, and on top of that there's the curse of travelling, worries about making train connections, bad and irregular food, contact with different people all the time so that you...

Built for Bright Ideas A short made-up subhead that sounds polished and modern THIS QUIET MOMENT opens into a larger story about...

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A retired electrician has turned a 6,000-square-foot warehouse into a private museum of vintage roadside neon, and he is now opening it to the public one Saturday a month.

A previously undocumented Gustav Stickley server turned up in a garage in the San Gabriel Valley, wrapped in moving blankets since 1987.

Tin Pan Alley in early 20th-century New York and Laurel Canyon in 1960s Los Angeles were influential songwriting communities that practiced a form of musical journalism, capturing their eras through song. Despite differences in geography and decades, both transformed current events into music that sounded alarms with their generations.Tin Pan Alley—named for the tinny sound of numerous $100 used Gulbransen pianos on Manhattan’s West 28th Street—was America’s commercial music center from the late 1800s through the 1920s. In cramped offices, formally dressed songwriters in suits, ties, and bowler hats worked at upright pianos. These musical journalists chronicled current events with melody and verse, ultimately producing sheet music for Americans...

A retired electrician has turned a 6,000-square-foot warehouse into a private museum of vintage roadside neon, and he is now opening it to the public one Saturday a month.

A previously undocumented Gustav Stickley server turned up in a garage in the San Gabriel Valley, wrapped in moving blankets since 1987.

Two mid-size auction houses are testing machine-learning tools that generate lot descriptions from photographs, cutting cataloging time by as much as 60 percent.

A ceramics conservator in Los Angeles is using ultraviolet fluorescence imaging to detect restoration work invisible to the naked eye, and the results are unsettling the market.