A new documentary contains zesty character studies of competing New York City tree vendors as they prepare for the holiday season. By Glenn Kenny When you purchase a ticket for an independently ...

Sylvia Plath's fig tree metaphor from The Bell Jar represents the paralysis of choice and fear of making wrong decisions. Each fig symbolizes a different life path, while the protagonist's inability ...

LB Beistad is a writer and musician based in Nashville, TN. Her love of gaming began with her cousin introducing her to Banjo Kazooie and Jak and Daxter when she was five years old. Since then, she ...

Book Club’s first read of the spring semester, “Parable of the Sower” by Octavia E. Butler, follows Lauren Olamina, a preacher’s daughter living in a walled neighborhood outside of Los Angeles in a ...

A parable is a simple story used to illustrate a moral or spiritual lesson, as told by Jesus in the Gospels. The word "parable" comes from the Greek word "parabolē," which means "comparison" or ...

One afigcionado is making this corner of Queens a far more fruit-friendly place. Buoyed by the success of Astoria’s first-ever fig tree scion exchange in March — which brought in some 200 people to ...

Elisha Wise will receive funding from the White Rose College of Arts and Humanities (ARCH) from October 2025. In chapter seven of Sylvia Plath’s The Bell Jar (1963), protagonist Esther Greenwood ...

Elementary school science teaches that trees produce the oxygen we breathe, and we, in turn, exhale carbon dioxide for trees to absorb. That isn’t where the process ends, though. Some trees can ...

A mugumo tree. A discovery, unveiled at the prestigious Goldschmidt Conference in Czech Republic, centres on Kenya’s Ficus wakefieldii—a relative of the sacred Mugumo tree that has grown across East ...

A couple weeks ago we discussed various types of fig trees which perform well in our climate and provide gardeners with a considerable amount of fruit. Our wonderful SETX weather conditions this year ...