Perhaps somewhere along the way you’ve heard the story of Beethoven’s deafness. From the age of 30, the already hugely accomplished composer began going slowly deaf, until by the age of 45 he was ...

Beethoven would have loved these guys. They took his nightmare and turned it into an inspiration for every deaf kid in the country. Rock ’n’ roll was still a century and a half away when the great ...

With hurricane season winding down, Mary Pramuk reminds us of what it's like to live through one: "We remember one night of total silence and total darkness after Hurricane Gustav, when no ...