NEW YORK – Akira Kurosawa’s “Seven Samurai” is celebrating its 70th anniversary this year. But despite its age, the vitality and fleet-footed movement of Kurosawa’s epic is still breathtaking. To watch it again is to be swept along, all over again, by its flowing action and breadth of vision. Just as swiftly as Kambei Shimada … Read more
Grapevine resident William Hicks’ build featured 6,000 pieces over 45 hours, winning him the title of 2024 Mini Master Model Builder. GRAPEVINE, Texas — A 9-year-old named William Hicks has rebuilt the Fort Worth Stockyards brick by brick by — or, well, Lego brick by Lego brick, at least. Hicks, a Grapevine native, recently won … Read more
JERSEY CITY, N.J. – New Jersey officials say financial concerns spurred state lawmakers to rescind $24 million in funding for a planned outpost of Paris’ acclaimed Pompidou Center in Jersey City. But the city’s mayor said he believes his deteriorating relationship with Gov. Phil Murphy led to the decision. Centre Pompidou x Jersey City was … Read more
NEW YORK – President Joe Biden’s fitness to serve a second term in office has been a top story since his halting performance in last week’s debate against Donald Trump, where the president at times appeared unable to complete or articulate some thoughts in the pressure of the moment. To some press critics who are … Read more
There was a scene in Season 10 of Bravo’s “Vanderpump Rules” — before the real-life cheating fiasco dubbed Scandoval was revealed — where Ariana Madix and her then-boyfriend Tom Sandoval acknowledged they weren’t spending enough quality time together. Sandoval wanted to party like a rock star while Madix wanted him to stay in with her, … Read more
LOS ANGELES – Once a year, law professor Moraima “Mo” Ivory usually brings celebrities like Steve Harvey, Ludacris and Rick Ross into her Georgia State University classroom for some entertainment legal talk. But this time, she’s taking her next lesson across the Atlantic Ocean, from Atlanta to the Paris Olympics. Ivory and her law students … Read more
NEW YORK – In the winter of 1789, around the time George Washington was elected the country’s first president, a Boston-based printer quietly launched another American institution. William Hill Brown’s “The Power of Sympathy,” published anonymously by Isaiah Thomas & Company, is widely cited as something momentous: the first American novel. Recommended Videos Around 100 … Read more