Jul. 8—Rays of sun danced off mural walls as boisterous cheers and cannonball splashes filled the Roosevelt Pool. Minutes down the road, the Savage Splash Pad was making waves of its own as kids took ...

Sure, there's the bellyflop. The cannonball. The bomb. But for the biggest pool splash of all, nothing beats "popping a Manu," a unique and fiendishly difficult type of diving perfected by the Māori ...

Cannonballs, then, are summer. They are lazy afternoons spent pool side, the scent of coconut, burning-hot sidewalks, sweating cans of soda, damp towels draped on plastic lounge chairs and, in certain ...