“I’m holding an illustrated book of cheeses,” says a delighted Tomoyo Ozumi, a customer at a growing kind of bookshop in Japan where anyone wanting to sell their tomes can rent a shelf.

Bookstores say customers love “Blind Date With a Book,” which masks a book’s real cover and lets readers discover what’s inside. Bookstores say customers love “Blind Date With a Book ...

The first thing customers see when they walk into the Strand Book Store in the Manhattan borough of New York City is a table of anonymous books with covers wrapped like Christmas presents and ...

The restaurants are presented in alphabetical order. If you’re an owner or manager of a waterfront restaurant in Sarasota, Manatee, or Charlotte counties and have additional information to share ...

For decades, a waterfront view in Seattle hasn’t been much to see. Cars and trucks screamed past office windows thanks to the Alaskan Way Viaduct. Once that elevated highway was closed ...

It's been a long time since Piermont had a new waterfront restaurant and its latest, with a Mediterranean focus and a breezy, beachy decor, is making a splash. Trata on the River, which opened Oct ...

Folk tales and beloved characters from cultures around the globe can are celebrated in popular books for young readers. Test your knowledge of them with this short quiz. The celebrity chef’s ...

While you panic buy some last-minute Halloween costumes and debate if it’s time to break out that winter coat, warmer weather is predicted to hit the GTA and a marathon run will cause major road ...

The concept brings back the joy of browsing real books to communities where many bookstores have shut, and gives readers more eclectic choices than those suggested by algorithms on online sellers, its ...

David and Victoria Beckham paid $72.3 million for a waterfront spec mansion in Miami Beach, setting a record for the city’s North Bay Road. Retired soccer champion David Beckham, co-owner of ...

The TCS Toronto Waterfront Marathon will have thousands of runners from across the country on the city’s streets this weekend, and with them, a series of road closures. Though the annual event ...

After a "whirlwind" 18 months attempting and ultimately failing to qualify for the Paris Olympics, Natasha Wodak arrived at Sunday's TCS Toronto Waterfront Marathon with some pressure off.