Sardis, once the terminus of the Persian royal road from Susa (in modern Iran), was an ancient city in today's Turkey, famed as the capital of the kingdom of Lydia. The city is situated on the Sart River (the ancient Pactolus), 90 kilometers...

Sardis, also Sardes (Lydian: Sfard, Greek: Σάρδεις, Persian: Sparda), modern Sart in the Manisa province of Turkey, was the capital of the ancient kingdom of Lydia, the seat of a proconsul under the Roman Empire, and the metropolis of the...

Vincent Sardi Jr., owner of Sardi's restaurant, the legendary Broadway watering hole where for decades the New York theater celebrated its opening nights, died Thursday at age 91.Sardi, who had been hospitalized in Berlin, Vt., died of complications related to a urinary tract infection, said...

9:30 a.m. Design Trust for Public Space and the N.Y.C. Taxi & Limousine Commission release outline for the future of yellow cabs, Military Island, Broadway at 44th Street. 9:30 a.m. General meeting of the Suffolk County Legislature at the Rose Caracappa Auditorium of the...

Today is Friday, Jan. 4, the fourth day of 2008. There are 362 days left in the year.Today's Highlight in History:On Jan. 4, 1965, President Johnson outlined the goals of his Great Society in his State of the Union Address.On this date:In 1821, the woman...

European film and TV writers demonstrated Wednesday in support of their striking U.S. colleagues.Several dozen writers rallied in front of the headquarters of Britain's main union federation holding red-and-black placards saying: "We Support the Writers Guild of America."Mark Burton, a British writer whose credits include...