A tactic being used in Lower Manhattan has drawn the attention of the police, but officers have not tried to dislodge demonstrators.

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Evicted From Park, Occupy Protesters Take to the Sidewalks

Editor’s note: Has England managed to overcome its reputation as a nation of historically underwhelming food? Considering the attention paid to the tables of “Downton Abbey,” the country’s record-breaking number of Michelin-starred restaurants, its beloved celebrity chefs and some of the most engaging food TV and magazines on the planet, we’d say so. As Clarissa Dickson Wright’ argues in “A History of English Food” (Random House, 2011), there were plenty of good bits in early eras — and ways in which English and American cooks have learned from each other. Read full article > >

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The unheralded elements of English food

Charles Dickens biographer Claire Tomalin says children are not being taught to read with the attention span necessary to appreciate the novelist’s works.

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Dickens ‘beyond’ modern children

Almost immediately, there was an outpouring of well-wishes and prayers from across the U.S. for the safe return of Aisha to her family. For days, people wondered how she could have vanished into thin air and with no surveillance or eyewitness accounts her fate, at times, seemed hopeless. The story caught the attention of national media outlets. Even Nancy Grace of CNN, the perennial advocate of missing persons and victims of unspeakable crimes, did a segment on Aisha in hopes that someone somewhere had seen her alive and tip off the policemen and volunteers searching for her.

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In Defense of Aisha Khan

This year’s CMJ included many acts that fully deserved the attention they clamored for, but there was also a sense of inertia.

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Critic’s Notebook: At CMJ Music Marathon, a Glut of Bands and a Haze of Music

Natalee Howell did not want to meet David Snider. For two weeks they chatted by phone, calling during work and school, talking at night until one or the other nodded off to sleep. Howell hoped it would continue like that. She had signed up for the dating site Interracial Dating Central after reading an article about it in September 2009. Though she was new to online dating and had never been in an interracial relationship, she was flattered by the attention from guys who wanted to get to know her. Read full article > >

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On Love: ‘I fell in love with her talking to her over the phone’

With all of the attention focused on the Game 1 matchup between Justin Verlander and C.C. Sabathia, many have overlooked the interesting pitchers scheduled for Game 2.

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Bats: Game 2 May Be a Matchup to Watch

Oh, to be a fly on the wall on this trip. Charlie Sheen is accompanying Sean Penn on a humanitarian trip to Haiti, Sheen said Friday. “I’m excited as hell because, you know, if I can bring the attention of the world down there, then clearly this…

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Charlie Sheen: I’m Going to Haiti

A backlog of X-rays at Altnagelvin Hospital was building up for two years before it came to the attention of the Western Trust, it emerged on Thursday.

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X-rays ‘built up over two years’

Shannon Tavarez, the 11-year-old Broadway singer whose fight against cancer drew the attention of Alicia Keys and Rihanna, has died.

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11-year-old Broadway singer dies