Art & Culture

FEB-RU-AR-Y!

Feb-yoo-ere or feb-roo-ere. Either pronunciation works fine, according to Webster and Google. Other months, like January, are named after Roman gods. So why wouldn’t February be known after the Roman god Februus? Instead, the word […]

Art & Culture

November’s man of music

Alexander Porforyevich was born on Nov.12, 1833 as an illegal son of a 62-year-old Georgian nobleman named Luka Stepanovich Gedevanishvili, and a married, intelligent and pretty 25-year-old Russian woman, Evdokia Konstantinovina Antonova. Fortunately, the Russian […]