Homophonic puns use word pairs which sound alike (homophones) but are not synonymous. The late, great George Carlin offered ...

This workshop dives into figurative language—similes, metaphors, personification, synesthetic language, and more—as powerful techniques to add flair and dimension to your prose.

Fijación Oral also gave fans the timeless collaboration with Alejandro Sanz, “La Tortura.” The pop urban-tinted track, with ...

Cici Zhang explores the connection between science and metaphors, and how the language in science is shaping our language.

Ben Luke talks to Huma Bhabha about her influences—from writers to musicians, film-makers and, of course, other artists—and ...

The Jeff Haas Quintet discussed diversity, kindness, and music as a universal language. PETOSKEY — Third and fourth graders from Harbor Springs Public Schools got to enjoy a trip to the Crooked ...

June 4, 2025 • Movies about musicians love to hit the same melodramatic beats about fame and genius. Important but not quite famous, the '90s indie band Pavement is the exception that unbalances ...

But music, she realized, could do something language alone could not ... That collapse was not figurative. On April 11th, 2023, Furman woke up ill, stumbled into the bathroom, and promptly ...

Tributes continue to pour in for Kenya's celebrated author and scholar, Prof. Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o, who died in the United States aged 87, with national leaders and cultural figures hailing him as a ...

Co-written with Jack Antonoff, the first taste of Lorde’s modern classic Melodrama was stacked with inspired choices ...