While Connor Cruise — the son of actors Nicole Kidman and Tom Cruise — isn’t super active on social media, the 26-year-old recently reaffirmed his love for the hobby that dominates his Instagram page: deep-sea fishing. In a snapshot from his birthday trip to Costa Rica, Cruise holds up a […]
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The fourth season of the French show “Call My Agent!” (on Netflix) has just been released, and fans will be dismayed to learn that it is the last. How can this warm, witty series abandon us in such an hour of need? It may be less than dignified to confess […]
Us Weekly has affiliate partnerships so we may receive compensation for some links to products and services. Life isn’t just about you anymore — with a little one in tow and another on the way, keeping yourself safe means ensuring the safety and well being of your entire family. But […]
Indira Varma and Nicholas Pinnock in a new episode of the legal drama “For Life” on ABC. (Giovanni Rufino / ABC) During the coronavirus crisis, the Los Angeles Times is making some temporary changes to our print sections. The prime-time TV grid is on hiatus in print, but an expanded […]
COBRA Kai star Mary Mouser has revealed how Karate Kid legend Ralph Macchio saved her from a cockroach infestation in her shower. Mary, who plays Ralph Macchio’s character Danny LaRusso’s daughter Sam on the hit Netflix’s spin-off series Cobra Kai , has told how he was a hero in real life too after […]
Late last year, Netflix released Hillbilly Elegy, a leaden adaptation of a popular book that looked at class struggle in America, among other things. With its starry cast and solemn self-importance, the film was determined to say something about money, the having and the lack of it, and the difficult […]
Italian tennis player Simone Bolelli, left, and Argentina’s Maximo Gonzalez are escorted to their training session in Melbourne, Australia, Monday, Jan. 18, 2021. The number of players in hard quarantine swelled to 72 ahead of the Australian Open after a fifth positive coronavirus test was returned from the charter flights […]
Last year in the UK the mobile masts arm of Arqiva, which rents access to all four operators, was acquired for £2bn. The buyer, Cellnex, went on to secure a €10bn pan-European takeover of masts owned by CK Hutchison, the owner of Three, including its UK sites. Vodafone’s UK masts, […]
Since the middle of last year, Polygon has been publishing outstanding oral histories of the Street Fighter series, and it recently published a related oral history for the Capcom vs. SNK series. A lot of details of the internal workings of Capcom and SNK alike came out of it, including […]
If your 2020 resolutions got canceled along with the rest of the year, we are right there with you. But we here we are, in January 2021, the usual time for setting self-improvement goals. If you don’t have space to make any resolutions this year, we get that. Or maybe […]
Sandra has a small dark birthmark under her left eye, as does the actress, Clare Dunne, who plays her. The effect is that of a permanent shiner, a bruise that never goes away. It makes an eloquent metaphor for a woman struggling to recover from the trauma of domestic abuse. […]
CLOSE FREMONT – It should come as no surprise the COVID-19 pandemic and its dramatic impact locally is the News-Messenger’s top story from 2020. With small businesses struggling from stringent safety protocols and local schools trying to merge online learning with in-person instruction, COVID-19 hit Sandusky County hard. Buy Photo […]
It was a hard year for the arts. After the coronavirus pandemic surged into the United States, touring shows stopped dead, theaters went dark and live performance just about anywhere ground to a screeching halt. This was true of Charleston, too. It has been a difficult year for musicians, artists, […]
Former sportswriter Danny Knobler with his family at his sports bar, Danny’s Sports Bar, in Pattaya, Thailand. (Courtesy of Danny Knobler) Danny Knobler had always wanted to visit Japan, and after covering pitcher Masao Kida’s rookie year with the Detroit Tigers in 1999, the sportswriter booked a trip the following […]
LOS ANGELES (AP) — For nine nights culminating on Christmas Eve, the oldest street in Los Angeles typically comes alive with a festive re-enactment of the nativity story, as children playing Mary and Joseph go door to door seeking shelter where she can give birth to Jesus. If the procession […]
If you need to get out of the house this holiday, we have some suggestions. (Ross May / Los Angeles Times; Getty Images) With theaters and theme parks still tightly closed due to COVID-19 — the pandemic that just keeps giving — Christmas 2020 is going to be super light […]
Six-odd months to the Tokyo Olympics and it’s still anyone’s guess whether they will actually take place. On the one hand, the Japanese government and the Games organisers are bullish on things going ahead, with safety rules in place; on the other, those living in Japan are less enthusiastic. In […]
Passports and visas Currently, anyone visiting an EU country only needs a passport that is valid for the proposed duration of their stay. From Jan 1, however, they will need to have at least six months of validity on their travel documents. Those who do not renew in time will not […]
Leisure travel and “order-in” dining are very different markets, but as end to the COVID-19 pandemic appears to be in sight, Airbnb and DoorDash are looking to expand by issuing IPOs. The IPOs for both companies hit the market as the Labor Department announced that a seasonally adjusted figure of […]
The lockdown began in Montreal on March 12. I was already in a state of personal crisis, with my mother entering the final stages of ovarian cancer. At the same time, the world around me descended into chaos. Food was scarce, toilet paper scarcer, and, worst of all, the newspaper and […]
Boris Johnson will head to Brussels for last-ditch talks to try personally to salvage a Brexit deal after negotiators failed to make any “tangible progress” on December 6. The Prime Minister will meet Ursula von der Leyen, the European Commission President, for a summit that could define not only his […]
Do you have a traveler on your holiday gift list? Chances are they had their wings clipped this year. That’s especially true for international travelers. With the exception of a few countries, an American passport won’t get you very far in the world today. Heck, with very few exceptions, you […]