happenings

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The litigation unveiled the private happenings of Hollywood elite, including texts and emails from Lively, Baldoni and their host of A-list friends.

From BBC • May 4, 2026

The news outlet recorded the coastal community’s quotidian happenings for generations, documenting births, marriages, deaths, soccer games, high school graduations, Fourth of July parades, the Mr. and Miss Palisades contest and more.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 7, 2026

Then again, it’s all too easy to be distracted from the desultory happenings on stage.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 14, 2026

Army basic-training instructor, he became a trendsetter in California’s 1960s alternative culture, hanging out with Ken Kesey, designing multimedia happenings and, in 1968, launching the Whole Earth Catalog.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 5, 2025

This family was especially marked, even among the other remarkable mythological families, by the very peculiar happenings which visited its members.

From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton