Enslaved fugitives referred to the Ohio River as the River Jordan. It was a metaphor for freedom like the Israelites’ flight from slavery in Egypt through the parted waters of the Red Sea. Except the ...

Hours slip by unnoticed as you lose yourself in the maze of memories and merchandise. It’s easy to enter the Antique Mall of America in the bright light of morning and emerge, blinking and disoriented ...

But, here and now in the fashionable El Born barrio, safely removed from the overtouristed ruckus of Las Ramblas, it literally is cool, with the early morning temperature hovering around the low teens ...