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Favorite Streets in 12 European Cities

It is a meandering one-lane thoroughfare of mostly unremarkable 20th-century buildings whose street-level hangouts — cool-kid cafes, homey small bars, vintage stores — and ever-evolving selection of French indie fashion labels draw Paris's bourgeois ...

No-Age-Statement Scotches Worth Losing Track of Time Over

IN SCOTCH AISLES across the country, a reformation is quietly under way. Among the stolid contingent of age-emblazoned single-malts—the Glenlivet 12, the Macallan 15, Talisker 18—a mysterious new crowd is creeping in, and their labels are defiantly ...

Overburdened French Dropped Surveillance of Brothers

The U.S. provided France with intelligence showing that the gunmen in the Charlie Hebdo massacre received training in Yemen in 2011, prompting French authorities to begin monitoring the two brothers, according to U.S. officials. But that surveillance ...

In Search of a Wine With Star Quality

based Kermit Lynch, who first rose to fame in the '80s by discovering such great producers from France as Domaine Tempier and Domaine François Raveneau, and the late Filippo di Belardino, who in the 1970s introduced terrific Italian producers such as ...

Rand Paul, McConnell Forge Unlikely Partnership

When Rand Paul first ran for the Senate, he faced a powerful home-state antagonist in Sen. Mitch McConnell. Now, as Mr. Paul prepares to run for president, a five-year effort to bury the hatchet has forged an odd-couple partnership that is an unseen ...

Trying On the Apple Watch: Natural Feel, Fewer Distractions

Why would you want to buy an Apple Watch? I'm still trying to figure that out. On Monday, Apple AAPL 0.88 % presented not one but dozens of uses for its first new kind of gadget since the iPad. In fact, CEO Tim Cook's sales pitch was more about ...

Hi-Res Audio Hijinx: Why Only Some Albums Truly Rock

Don Was—a Grammy-winning producer of Bonnie Raitt, Bob Dylan, Roy Orbison and Willie Nelson, among others—is now president of the jazz label Blue Note. For the past two years, his mission has been to take all of Blue Note's classic recordings, those ...