Pretty Yende, an acclaimed soprano, says she was forced to submit to a body search at a Paris airport. They took her for questioning and forced her to submit to a body search that she described as invasive. While she was not asked to remove her clothes, she says, the police told her, without explanation, […]
MILAN — If 15 months away from live fashion has taught us anything, it is that viewing fashions digitally is as satisfying as pretending to dine by looking through the window of a restaurant. Yet, as with a good meal consumed with just one’s eyes, it invariably makes you hungrier. Not everyone agreed with his […]
“Amazon is changing the nature of work in our country and touches many core Teamster industries and employers,” states the resolution, which will be voted on at the Teamsters convention on Thursday. It does not elaborate on the timing for such a division or how much money or manpower the union will devote to the […]
The other recipients were “David Byrne’s American Utopia,” an intricately choreographed concert by the Talking Heads singer, and “Freestyle Love Supreme,” a mostly improvised hip-hop musical that was created, in part, by Lin-Manuel Miranda. The awards show — a starry broadcast that will celebrate Broadway’s comeback — is now set to air on CBS in […]
According to newly obtained court records, as early as 2014, Ms. Spears had objections to her father serving in that role, citing his drinking, among other issues. In February, Ms. Spears’s conservatorship received renewed attention after the release of “Framing Britney Spears,” a documentary by The New York Times, that tells the story of a […]
“She articulated she feels the conservatorship has become an oppressive and controlling tool against her,” a court investigator wrote in a 2016 report. Ms. Spears informed the investigator that she wanted the conservatorship terminated as soon as possible. Mr. Spears, known as Jamie, was appointed conservator in 2008, shortly after Ms. Spears was twice taken […]
SAN FRANCISCO — For decades the monumental 10-panel fresco by Diego Rivera depicting a continent linked by creativity has been mounted in the lobby of a theater at City College of San Francisco. In 1961 it was moved to the campus theater building, now called Diego Rivera Theater , where it was wedged into too […]
Mark Peel, one of a handful of young, educated California cooks enamored with local ingredients who emerged in the 1970s and 1980s and created a looser, farm-focused style of cuisine that would change the trajectory of American food culture, died on Sunday in Los Angeles. Mr. Peel worked at restaurants that would come to define […]
Among the nation’s largest airlines, Southwest Airlines had the most delays, with 30 percent of flights running late, according to FlightAware, a flight tracking service. Paul and Detroit and complicated efforts to get flight crews in place, a spokesman said. Each of the nation’s major airlines faced significant delays on Sunday, but only American also […]
Ben van Beurden, the chief executive of Royal Dutch Shell, has been talking about the need to cut emissions since 2017. Their leaders see that demand for petroleum products is likely to eventually fade and that their industry faces growing disapproval, especially in Europe, because of its role in climate change. They want to not […]
In 2020, Amblin re-upped with Universal Pictures for another five-year term that involved supplying three to five movies a year to the studio and its subsidiary Focus Features. In 2019, there was chatter in Hollywood that Mr. Spielberg was gunning for Netflix and intended to propose a rule change at the Academy of Motion Picture […]
Chu, the director, and some of the stars about the lack of dark-skinned leads in the film: “As a Black woman of Cuban descent specifically from New York City,” she told him, “it would be remiss of me to not acknowledge the fact that most of your principal actors were light-skinned or white-passing Latinx people.” […]
It has a Big Bad — Leland Townsend, a primly malevolent nemesis played with a marvelous comic spitefulness by Michael Emerson — whose ratio of psychopathy versus supernatural dominion is teasingly unspecified. When you’ve got the end of the world as we know it on one side of your narrative equation, it exerts a certain […]
Anthony DeSclafani tossed a gem June 11 in Washington, finishing what he started for a rare complete game. Also notably beating the odds are three graybeards, each of whom is in the final year of his contract. Posey, 34, opted out of last summer’s pandemic-shortened season after he and his wife, Kristin, adopted identical-twin girls […]
The player, Sang Ho Baek, 20, died on June 12 at a TidalHealth medical facility in Salisbury, Md., according to the Holloway Funeral Home, which is handling his service. Officially called an ulnar collateral ligament reconstruction, the Tommy John surgery repairs a ligament that helps secure a person’s elbow joint and that can be torn […]
The player, Sang Ho Baek, 20, died on June 12 at a TidalHealth medical facility in Salisbury, Md., according to the Holloway Funeral Home, which is handling his service. Officially called an ulnar collateral ligament reconstruction, the Tommy John surgery repairs a ligament that helps secure a person’s elbow joint and that can be torn […]
Malcolm, the author and longtime staff writer for The New Yorker who died on Wednesday at 86, was preoccupied with doubleness, with divided selves that tried to keep one half hidden. There are the convicted killers in books like “The Journalist and the Murderer” and “Iphigenia in Forest Hills,” but what seemed to animate Malcolm […]
Those affected were all ages, including children. Post-Covid health problems were common even among people who had not gotten sick from the virus at all, the study found. More than half of the 1,959,982 patients whose records were evaluated reported no symptoms from their Covid infection. The report analyzed records of people diagnosed with Covid-19 […]
He never considered quitting and fought his way back from the sport’s minor leagues even as he got used to being one of the oldest players in each event. Bland did not mention one other possible perk: A chance to win the tournament and join the exclusive club of major golf champions. In fact, Bland, […]
in 2015 and signed for a $2.65 million bonus, but his career was slowed by Tommy John surgery on April 13, 2017. He struck out four of his first five batters, threw 44 four-seam fastballs that averaged 93 miles per hour and mixed in 22 sliders, two curveballs and 12 changeups. single in the third […]