Marriott is now allowing members of its loyalty program to use points to pay for anything that appears on their hotel bill.

Imagine a museum where everything is for sale (even the toilet), and you have ArtParis+Guests, a transformation of one of this city's many contemporary art fairs into an interdisciplinary, international event.

The Rev. Henry Stober was a priest in Covington, then went to drier climates in Arizona and California before World War II. He volunteered as an Army chaplain, was sent to the Philippines, and was captured by the Japanese. He died as a prisoner of war.

Mr. Alf was an influential Brazilian songwriter, pianist and singer whose delicately swinging music was a precursor to the bossa nova.

There's a comfort-food theme to recent statistics from allrecipes.com, which bills itself as the Internet's No. 1 food and cooking site, with 1.6 billion visits last year. The top 10 requested recipes were banana bread followed by lasagna, easy sugar cookies, pancakes, slow-cooker pot roast, rolled sugar cookies, crepes, carrot cake, zucchini bread and chicken pot pie.