Comedian and actor Adam Sandler to get 2023 Mark Twain Prize

Over the years, The Mark Twain Prize for American Humor has gone to such luminaries as Richard Pryor, Carl Reiner, Whoopi Goldberg, Billy Crystal, George Carlin and Ellen DeGeneres. Next year, it’s going to the guy who made us crack up as Happy Gilmour. The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts said Tuesday … Read more

UT Health San Antonio, Ohio company reach license agreement to develop chlamydia vaccine – UT Health San Antonio

Vaccines for this infection have been challenging to produce SAN ANTONIO (Dec. 13, 2022) — The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio has granted an exclusive global license allowing an Ohio biopharmaceutical company to develop university research discoveries into a novel oral vaccine for chlamydia. According to the U.S. Centers for Disease … Read more

Music, exercise, gray hair: Pandemic practices that live on

NEW YORK – Dusting off old musical instruments, appreciating the outdoors more meaningfully, dumping the hair dye and letting the gray fly forever. The pandemic disrupted our traditions, practices and pursuits, how we mark milestones, what we do with our time, what’s important in routines. It replaced old with new, a kind of new that … Read more

Spurs 112, Cavaliers 111: What they said after the game

The Spurs are on a three-game win streak after beating the Cavaliers. SAN ANTONIO — The San Antonio Spurs are on a three-game winning streak after narrowly beating the Cleveland Cavaliers, 112-111, at home.  Josh Richardson had 24 points and two assists to lead the team while Keldon Johnson added 21 points. Tre Jones finished … Read more