NEW YORK (AP) — When the latest exhibit at the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Costume Institute opens this week, celebrating the style of French fashion figure Jacqueline de Ribes, an important guest will be missing: The 86-year-old de Ribes herself.
In the wake of the horrific Paris terror attacks, "she felt it would be unseemly to celebrate," said the exhibit's curator, Harold Koda. Despite canceling her trip, however, de Ribes noted in a statement that she hopes the show "will represent the joy associated with the freedom of creation."
MOUNT WASHINGTON, N.H. (AP) — Winter is over a month away, but otherworldly ice kingdoms already have formed atop some New Hampshire mountains.
Mount Washington, the tallest peak in the Northeast at 6,288 feet, and Mount Adams are among those that have rime ice — supercooled water droplets that freeze when they come into contact with an object.
