NEW YORK (Reuters) -- A historical group on Friday began preserving thousands of sticky notes placed on the walls of a busy New York subway station over the past month to lament the election of Donald Trump as the next US president.Distraught and defiant residents and visitors to the United States’ largest city -- long a Democratic and liberal stronghold -- have stuck anonymous messages on the walls of Manhattan’s Union Square station since Trump’s Nov. 8 victory. Many of the notes express grief

Zsa Zsa Gabor, the jet-setting Hungarian actress and socialite who helped invent a new kind of fame out of multiple marriages, conspicuous wealth and jaded wisdom about the glamorous life, died Sunday at her home, her husband said. She was 99.The middle and most famous of the sisters Gabor died of a heart attack at her Los Angeles home, Frederic von Anhalt said. Gabor had been hospitalized repeatedly since she broke her right hip in July 2010 after a fall at her home. She already had to use a wh

BERLIN (AFP) -- Better known for its electronic music and street art, Berlin is now also home to a budding graphic novel scene in a country that has treated illustrated stories as children‘s literature.Hardly seen in bookstores just a few years ago, German-produced graphic novels now have their dedicated shelves, as not only homegrown artists but also foreign ones find inspiration in Berlin. “It was when I moved here that I felt a need to write,” said Spanish author Alberto Madrigal, who moved t

Jeju Island expats are collaborating to ensure that Santa pays a midnight visit to disadvantaged children this Christmas, in a gift drive covering all of the island’s orphanages.Jeju Furey will be wrapping presents and making midnight trips to leave them under the tree or in the play room at the orphanages, before returning to run fun activities for them on Christmas Day.“Some of us dress up as Santa while we do it,” said Jeju Furey President Daniel Nabben. “You really truly feel like Santa. The

Expat soccer school International Football Education will be holding a weeklong children's soccer camp in Seoul next month, with tips on taking the sport further for the older players.There will be two daily workshops, one for teenagers and one for younger players, both looking at technical skills and game awareness to improve play.IFE staffer Na Hana said the teen workshops would also include advice for youths who are thinking about a career in soccer, or who want to pursue a soccer scholarship

Bulgogi can easily be made into a hearty, steaming, and flavorful hot pot (jeongol) dish that is perfect for the cold winter months. Making bulgogi jeongol is fairly simple. First make bulgogi by marinating thinly sliced beef. It’s even better if you have leftover bulgogi. Then, arrange a variety of fresh vegetables and bulgogi in a shallow pot, add some broth, and cook. Depending on the size of your pot, you can cook in two batches, or you can add more ingredients as you cook, or take some out

Seeking something other than the traditional 70-degree, sunny Christmas that Southern Californians like me often take for granted, I persuaded my dad to spend the long holiday weekend last year somewhere more remote, and perhaps white.We signed up for a three-day trip with an Asian tour bus company out of Monterey Park, just east of Los Angeles, to Arizona and Utah. Disclaimer: The trip is better done driving your own car, especially if you like legroom.At the crack of dawn, we loaded our luggag

Wine and cheese at Millennium Seoul Hilton Millennium Seoul Hilton will organize a wine and cheese tasting event on Dec. 28 in the Grand Ballroom. The 89th edition running will feature special wines from the Farnese winery in Italy, which dates back to the Renaissance. The selected red and white wines include Fantini Primo Malvasia Chardonnay, Fantini Pinot Grigio, Fantini Sangiovese Merlot, Fantini Montepulciano D’Abruzzo, don Camillo, Pipoli Aglianico del Vulture, Canace Nero di Troia and the

Everland Romantic Illuminations festEverland’s Romantic Illumination festival is continuing its celebrations until March 1 with beautiful and enchanting illuminations for a romantic and memorable holiday season.The festival will feature an extravagant 26-meter-tall Romantic Tower Tree, which will be displayed at the fountain area between Four Seasons Garden and Rose Garden. The hollowed out Christmas tree tower can accommodate up to 50 people.The tree’s interior showers visitors with enchanting

At this moment the food we all should be devouring is seafood, which is at its peak during the winter season. Restaurants are gleaming with the freshest catches during the colder months of the year, harvest time for succulent cold-water fish and shellfish from around the peninsula. Blowfish, also known as pufferfish, fugu and “bokeo” in Korean, are at their fattest and plumpest in the winter, which makes it an ideal time to enjoy them. Having the texture of a smaller-bodied monkfish and a mellow

Daejeon Writing Group will release its first anthology Saturday, with a book launch event that will also raise money for a local animal welfare charity.The group will introduce work from the book, titled “Fleeting,” with copies available at the event and online.The book has three sections -- poetry, short stories, and short plays -- with an emphasis on poetry. “The wonderful thing about this book is the variety,” said Clare Hartwieg, one of the book’s editors.“The authors come from all over the

LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Patti Smith says that when she stumbled over the lyrics of a Bob Dylan song during the Nobel Prize ceremony last week, it was because she was overwhelmed with nerves by the enormity of the experience, not because she forgot the words to “A Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall.”Smith writes in an essay published Wednesday by the New Yorker that after loving the song since she was a teenager and rehearsing it incessantly in the months and days leading up to the ceremony, its lyrics “were n

“Not Dead Yet” (Crown Archetype, $28)Phil Collins is arching an eyebrow on the cover of his new memoir, as if to let you know he’s in on the joke. The book is called “Not Dead Yet,” a rather wry declaration from one of pop music’s most buoyant hitmakers, who’s not exactly wizened at 65.“Well, my health seems to have been the subject of much speculation in certain parts of the press,” Collins told the Times, alluding to his hearing loss and the chronic upper-body pain that has left him walking wi