People will once again be allowed to clap at Encinitas City Council meetings to express support with a public speaker at the podium. And, a ban on speaker time donations, enacted during COVID-19, also ...

Over 75 people attended a Gig Harbor Planning Commission meeting to discuss various proposed changes to waterfront zoning. People wishing to speak were given a three-minute limit. After the first ...

The orchestra’s formal dress, the way it tunes. How the conductor bows, and all that walking on and off the stage. The typical classical music concert can seem full of arcane rituals that set it apart ...

That’s the thrill of being a ballperson, the advantage of sharing a court with amazing athletes playing incredible tennis. There are rules, of course. There’s a training session and a whole book of ...

One readily noticeable pathognomonic trait of autism is hand-flapping—a stereotyped motor movement that can look a bit like an attempt to accelerating the drying of nail polish. Not all with autism do ...

Atlanta Falcons head coach Raheem Morris (Photo credit: Rashad Milligan for rolling out) Everybody put those hands together for Atlanta Falcons coach Raheem Morris. Or, maybe not? Claps and snaps were ...

It was nearing 6:00 p.m. Sunday afternoon at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center. The setting was Court 17, one of the venue’s more intimate courts, a tidy tennis theatre in the round.

If he became president, Rand Paul would ban people from clapping during the SOTU — -- Under hypothetical President Rand Paul, the State of the Union address would be a much quieter – and probably ...