The meaning of ‘happiness’ was in flux in Shakespeare’s England, and his plays capture many senses of the word.

PHILADELPHIA -- On a frigid February morning, Vanity Cordero, a Philadelphia police officer, heard a call over the radio for a man threatening to jump from a bridge. The details sounded familiar.

The filmmakers’ obsession with interrupting a classic fairy tale with messaging emphasizing female leadership likely comes from the concern that the original fairy tale romance gave children a false ...

The festival opens with a glorious dye-transfer original British release print of Star Wars ... Don Bluth was able to recapture some of this magic in his own mouse tale, an immigrant’s fairytale of ...

Mommy, a Western Santa Cruz tortoise, recently welcomed four hatchlings at the Philadelphia Zoo, where she has lived since 1932. By Sopan Deb Congratulations are in order for Mommy, a Galápagos ...

It was Bob Vetrone, a sports writer from Philadelphia. The city’s new NBA team had drafted ... Former Wildcats Ryan Arcidiacono and Donte DiVincenzo were also ‘Nova Knicks. But the original ‘Nova ...

I am a law professor at Villanova University outside Philadelphia, and my research focuses on the work of the administrative agencies that compose the federal government. I believe that ...

It sounds like things are officially over between Kanye West and Bianca Censori. Though there had been rumblings for a while about friction in their marriage, West and Censori have denied divorce ...

But in a fun twist on expected fairy tale trajectories, Lapine and Sondheim tweak things by, yes, showing a first act where everyone happily gets what they desire, but is then followed by a second ...

Philadelphia’s district attorney challenged the giveaway, calling it an illegal lottery, but a judge allowed it to continue after Mr. Musk’s team argued that the winners were not selected by ...