Tag: Arts and entertainment
France: Female sports journalists cite sexism, harassment
PARIS — More than 150 female sports journalists in France denounced sexism, harassment and discrimination they said they routinely face from colleagues and people...
Raiders give 3-year contract to C Andre James
The Las Vegas Raiders showed their confidence in center Andre James by giving him a three-year contract less than a week after trading away...
Acclaimed Polish poet Adam Zagajewski dies at age 75
<p>WARSAW, Poland — Adam Zagajewski, one of Poland’s greatest poets who wrote a poem that came to symbolize the world's sense of shock and...
Vivian Gornick, 7 others win Windham-Campbell Prizes
NEW YORK — Playwright Michael R. Jackson, author-critic Vivian Gornick and fiction and nonfiction writer Renee Gladman are among this year's winners of Windham-Campbell...
Review: Vibrant new portrait of artist Helen Frankenthaler
<p>“Fierce Poise: Helen Frankenthaler and 1950s New York,” by Alexander Nemerov (Penguin Press)</p>
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Boylan, Rutgers radio voice, former hoops coach, dies at 82
PISCATAWAY, N.J. — Joe Boylan, a popular radio voice for Rutgers basketball and a former coach when the team made its only Final Four...
NFL reveals plans for upcoming 3-day draft in Cleveland
<p>CLEVELAND — NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell will be leaving his man cave to announce this year's rookie draft class within shouting distance of the...
Live TV, cash boost for Women’s Super League with UK deals
LONDON — The Women's Super League will benefit from prominent free broadcasts in Britain for the first time when the BBC starts showing live...
Energy already high among new additions to Patriots’ roster
BOSTON — The first time Kendrick Bourne walked into the New England Patriots’ team facility last week, he didn’t know what to expect.
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Comic, Netflix staple Jo Koy talks race, rejection in memoir
<p>Like many famous comics, Jo Koy had early struggles at comedy clubs. But, unlike them, the half white and half Filipino comedian could only...