DEPENDING ON WHERE you are in Marin on Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Fridays, you may hear a strange noise that will either be totally unidentifiable or that may transport you back to your childhood — the ...

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About 10 years ago, when a friend suggested that several of us learn how to play mah jongg (or mahjong, depending on your spelling preference), I said OK, but mostly just out of curiosity. “This won’t ...

Game night in Sara Linden's Potrero Hill apartment starts off with food and wine. "But not too much wine," Linden says with a shy smile. "Or else you won't win." There is talk of work and books until ...

Every Monday and Thursday afternoon in Bryant Park, one of most illustrious public places in downtown New York City, the clink of intricate tiles and ignited outbursts from drawing an unlucky piece ...

Perhaps it was the memorable scene in 2018’s “Crazy Rich Asians” that sparked new interest in an old game. Or, maybe it was about a year later when Julia Roberts revealed to “The Late Show” host ...

It was the 1940s. Americans were dancing to the jitterbug, watching Marilyn Monroe on the big screen, and humming hits from Frank Sinatra, Glenn Miller, and Bing Crosby. Women around the United States ...

Last February, my friend Fiona texted a question to me and two other friends: Who wants to learn how to play mah-jongg? None of us — a group of millennial moms in our late 30s and early 40s — had ever ...