Into the middle of a long summer of stifling heat, nauseating Washington politics, two public mass shootings, an irritating presidential campaign you wish was long over, dead fish floating down the Missouri River, the Penn State-Jerry Sandusky scandal...

Reports from London bankside are that members of the London Philharmonic are rehearsing on the Thames River in preparation for a concert June 3 in honor of the Queen’s sixtieth year on the throne. The concert is...