Kidjo, Blackwell, Pärt awarded Sweden’s Polar Music Prize

STOCKHOLM – Five-time Grammy Award winner Angélique Kidjo, Island Records founder Chris Blackwell and Estonian composer Arvo Pärt have won the 2023 Polar Music Prize, a Swedish music award. The three “all made such a global impact with their music,” Marie Ledin, managing director of the annual prize, said in announcing the winners on Tuesday. … Read more

Gwyneth Paltrow’s experts to testify in Utah ski crash case

PARK CITY, Utah – Gwyneth Paltrow’s attorneys are expected to call a series of experts and read depositions from her two teenage children on Tuesday in the first full day of the movie star ‘s trial that they have to call witnesses to make their case. Due to the trial’s judge-imposed eight-day clock, Paltrow’s defense … Read more

Where Florida Atlantic’s Final 4 run ranks among long shot tournament runs in NCAA history

Since the expansion of the NCAA Tournament in 1985, we have seen a handful of double-digit seeds make their way through the first few rounds and into the Final 4. HOUSTON — The Florida Atlantic Owls, the winningest team in college basketball’s regular season, proved they aren’t just a mid-major darling, advancing past Kansas State … Read more