EUGENE, Ore. The company has declined to renew its sponsorship agreements with at least a dozen athletes who have shots at competing in Tokyo. “The thing people started talking about when they heard about cuts is, ‘Oh no, track and field, what will happen,’” said Jesse Williams, the owner of the running events company Sound […]
Both sides had thought the coronavirus infection rates would have fallen by the time the tournament’s deciding games were to be played at Wembley in early July. That delay already means that any hopes of playing in front of capacity crowds at Wembley have been dashed; it has already been announced that the 90,000-seat stadium […]
Frank Bonner, the actor best known for playing Herb Tarlek, the brash salesman with an affection for plaid polyester suits, on the popular television comedy “WKRP in Cincinnati,” died on Wednesday at his home in Laguna Niguel, Calif., south of Los Angeles. His daughter, Desiree Boers-Kort, said the cause was complications of Lewy body dementia. […]
UEFA secured some exemptions to rules on travel and quarantines for visiting foreign nationals before the tournament, and both it and the British government had thought the coronavirus infection rates that had prompted the restrictions would have fallen by the time the tournament’s deciding games were to be played at Wembley in early July. That […]
As New York reopens, its cultural rhythms are creeping back in, with museums and music venues filling up and outdoor concerts popping up in parks. The holiday — a portmanteau of “June” and “nineteenth” — began on June 19, 1865. “I suggest that if we’re going to do some celebrating of freedom, that we have […]
OMAHA — Simone Manuel squinted at the scoreboard on Thursday night and did the simple math. Scanning the results of the second semifinal while standing on the deck, she counted the times that were faster than hers. If one of the indelible images from the 2016 Olympics in Rio de Janeiro was Manuel’s shocked expression […]
One recent afternoon on St. The Augmented Gallery is part of a wider initiative to reposition London’s West End as an arts and culture destination; the normally bustling zone was eerily quiet during the darkest days of the pandemic in the city. Yet another way to engage in London’s outdoor art scene is by checking […]
Sparks is a band unlike any other. Their witty, hyper-literate songs, along with the singer Russell’s good looks and keyboardist Ron’s deadpan, glowering stage presence, made Sparks icons of a sort in Europe, but never more than a cult band in the United States. In 2017, the music-obsessed director Edgar Wright, fresh off the success […]
Let’s take permission from the title of the new Apple TV+ series “Physical” and note the physical appearance of its star, Rose Byrne. She’s profoundly unhappy, and one consequence of that is an expensive eating disorder that provides the show with a recurring dark-comic motif: Sheila picking up three fast-food burgers and checking into a […]
A lot of movies can be described as fish-out-of-water stories, but few quite as literally as “Luca.” The title character, voiced by Jacob Tremblay, is an aquatic creature who lives with his family off the Mediterranean coast of Italy. Like many a Disney protagonist before him — Ariel, Nemo and Moana all come to mind […]
Facing severe shortfalls, cultural groups across the country are looking for ways to streamline operations and establish new sources of revenue. The orchestra has won accolades for its artistry under the music director Yannick Nézet-Séguin, who also serves in that role at the Metropolitan Opera, but it has long struggled financially. The arrangement will allow […]
On Thursday, the firm reported that 64 percent of the time American viewers used their television sets in May 2021 was spent watching network and cable TV, while they watched streaming services about 26 percent of the time. A Nielsen spokesman said that the firm anticipates the streaming share could go up to about 33 […]
Merging two biographies is a solid way to enliven the often-tedious genre of the literary documentary. The director Lisa Immordino Vreeland uses the friendship between Truman Capote and Tennessee Williams to construct a dialogue between them, using the writing and appearances they left behind. We hear the Southern-born authors on their writing habits, on how […]
Most documentaries about famous people tend to be exercises in celebrity worship, and “Rita Moreno: Just a Girl Who Decided to Go for It” is no exception. Under studio contract in the 1950s and ’60s, Moreno recounts the painful times she spent playing “illiterate, immoral island girls” and fending off Hollywood executives who demanded sexual […]
Longing for escape, the children meet Malik , a neighborhood boy with every hot-wiring skill an aspiring runaway could ever need. Rockwell cast his wife and two children as Eve, Billie and Nico, and their ease and familiarity lends the film naturalistic warmth. Here, there are no cellphones, no video games. …Read the full story
That private library, the Honresfield Library, was assembled in the 19th century and had gone virtually unseen since the 1930s. But after the nephew’s death in 1939, the originals fell out of public view. The consortium’s announcement also highlighted “two hugely significant letters” by Jane Austen to her sister Cassandra, including one written on the […]
After more than a year, pandemic-era safety precautions have become established aspects of daily life in New York. New York will end, in most cases, state-mandated capacity limits and no longer require social distancing. About 65 percent of adults — those 18 or older — have received at least one dose in the city. For […]
In April, history was made at Augusta National Golf Club when Hideki Matsuyama became the first Japanese male golfer to win a major championship. Open at Torrey Pines Golf Course in San Diego, history will be made again, Matsuyama as the first Japanese player to win the Open and Mickelson as the sixth player to […]
Davis, who played college golf, has worked for golf’s governing body in America for nearly his entire career. has done for the maintenance of golf courses, like water conservation and grass research, all with an eye on the environmental impact and cost savings. And Davis has kept a keen eye on ensuring the financial stability […]
Praise be, at last: Fred Waterford, the inscrutably sadistic commander at the center of “The Handmaid’s Tale,” has met his demise. After learning that her rapist and tormentor has saved himself from prison by becoming a government informant, June persuades her allies to implement a bait and switch. And suddenly women pour out of dense […]