The City of Brotherly Love enjoys first round success in NBA and NHL playoffs, but it forces the E Street Band to reroute their Land of Hope and Dreams Tour The Philadelphia 76ers and Flyers both advanced to the second round of their respective playoffs Saturday, but those victories have come at a price: Bruce…
Shindig Festival, which has Bob Vylan headlining this year, is to have its licence reviewed over “disorder and public safety” concerns. The event is scheduled to take place at Charlton Park in Wiltshire from May 21 to 24, but its licence to operate on the premises will be reconsidered just three days before it starts after…
Brady Ebert now charged with attempted first-degree murder, attempted second-degree murder, first-degree assault and two counts of second-degree assault following incident with singer’s father Former Turnstile guitarist Brady Ebert is now facing life in prison after his charges for intentionally driving his car into the father of Turnstile singer Brendan Yates were upgraded to attempted…
Saturday Night Live returns for its final run of season 51 episodes with a press conference held by “the man, the myth, the liability” Secretary of War Pete Hegseth (Colin Jost). He angrily “dogwalks” the dweeby members of the press pool over questions about his mistaking a Pulp Fiction quote for a real verse from…
Christo once wrapped up the Reichstag, suspended a curtain across a Colorado valley and covered up the Pont Neuf in Paris. Now, six years after the artist’s death, a London gallery is to create a monumental installation he designed in 1968, using a detailed scale model and drawings that had been presumed lost until their…
The F.B.I. director Kash Patel may or may not be a personnel problem for the White House. But he does present a challenge for “Saturday Night Live,” where there are no cast members of Indian descent to impersonate him. So this weekend, “S.N.L.” dug deep into its celebrity Rolodex to recruit Aziz Ansari, the “Parks…
When Frances and her mother-in-law return from shopping to find that Frances’ husband, Rory, has ransacked the house for everything of value and absconded to God knows where — the man has been keeping a lot of secrets — the shallow, clueless Frances seems most concerned with her public image. “If people ever find out…
Until recently, we humans have been able to be smug about our abilities. No other animals play boardgames, write essays or prove mathematical theorems. But lately, progress in AI seems as though it might challenge our self-image as the smartest entities around. AI systems not only beat us at the most complicated games, but can…
These tragic actress associations were apt: After Pat’s husband, Sam Daniels, an appellate lawyer, left her for his secretary, she had psychotic depressive episodes that included, on one occasion, feeding the possessions of their three children, whom she called “schnickelfritzes,” into a living-room fire. Sam was obviously not the picture of mental health either. Yes,…
The first single I boughtShut Up by Madness, from a record shop on Hoe Street in Walthamstow, London. It gave me a kind of independence in the world when I could choose what I wanted. And as a nine-year-old, you could find 10p down the back of the sofa and get a Madness badge at the…
