NEW YORK – Competitive eater Joey “Jaws” Chestnut will take his hot dog-downing talents to an army base in Texas for America’s Independence Day this year after a falling out with organizers of the event that made him famous, the annual 4th of July eating contest in Brooklyn’s Coney Island. Chestnut, of Indiana, will compete … Read more
SAN ANTONIO — Opening the sandwich gates of heaven in the Alamo City are Texas A&M aggies Holland Lawrence and Marc Fogelsong. “The food, the beer and the customer service are the three pillars for this business,” Fogelsong said. The two men met on campus, became friends and shared a dream of owning and operating … Read more
LOS ANGELES – For more than a year and a half, leaders of Hollywood’s actors union have been negotiating with video game companies over a new contract that covers the performers who bring their titles to life. But while negotiators with the Screen Actors Guild-American Federation of Television and Radio Artists have made gains in … Read more
BETHEL, N.Y. – Beverly “Cookie” Grant hitchhiked to the Woodstock music festival in 1969 without a ticket and slept on straw. Ellen Shelburne arrived in a VW microbus and pitched a pup tent. Fifty-five years later, the two longtime friends finally got back to the garden, but this time in high style. Recommended Videos The … Read more
LAS VEGAS – An ailing former Los Angeles-area gang leader has been denied release from a Las Vegas jail ahead of his trial in the 1996 killing of music legend Tupac Shakur, despite a bid by a hip-hop music figure to underwrite his $750,000 bond. A Nevada judge rejected house arrest with electronic monitoring for … Read more
The event will have activities that kids and adults can enjoy all day long, ending with a fireworks extravaganza. SAN ANTONIO — The annual Fourth of July Celebration, hosted by the San Antonio Parks Foundation (SAPF) and the City of San Antonio, is returning to Woodlawn Lake Park for a day of barbecue far, family … Read more
Soprano Anna Netrebko and tenor Yusif Eyvazov have separated. The couple had been together since 2014, when they appeared together in Puccini’s “Manon Lescaut” at Rome’s Teatro dell’Opera. They married in 2015. Recommended Videos “After 10 happy years together, we have made the difficult but amicable decision to separate,” Netrebko and Eyvazov said in a … Read more