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New Pompeii excavation reveals a large private thermal complex built 2,000 years ago
By The Associated Press on January 17th, 2025
ROME (AP) – Pompeii, the ancient Roman city buried by ash and lava in 70 AD, has unearthed a new treasure — a private bathhouse built 2,000 years ago, decorated with sumptuous mosaics and equipped with a series of hot, warm and cold rooms in the manner of a spa. “We have here perhaps the ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Donald Trump vows to help ‘troubled’ Hollywood with Mel Gibson, Jon Voight and Sylvester Stallone
By Lindsey Bahr And Jill Colvin, The Associated Press on January 16th, 2025
NEW YORK (AP) – Donald Trump wants to make Hollywood “bigger, better and stronger” and has cast Mel Gibson, Jon Voight and Sylvester Stallone as stars of what he is calling his “Special Ambassadors to a great but very troubled place, Hollywood, California.” On Wednesday, the President-elect announced on his social media site that the ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!He is credited with one of history’s most indelible photos. A new documentary questions who took it
By David Bauder, The Associated Press on January 16th, 2025
It is one of the 20th century’s most memorable images: a naked girl, screaming, running from a napalm bombing during the Vietnam War. More than a half-century later, a new documentary is calling into question who took it – and the retired Associated Press photographer long credited for the photo insists it was his, while ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Nintendo’s new Switch 2 console will come out in 2025
By Sarah Parvini, The Associated Press on January 16th, 2025
LOS ANGELES (AP) – Gaming giant Nintendo revealed its newest console Thursday in a highly anticipated announcement gamers had been waiting for since rumors of its release first spread years ago. The Nintendo Switch 2, the successor to the Nintendo Switch system, will be released in 2025, the company said. In a new promotional video, ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!‘September 5’ revisits the seminal Munich Olympics attack broadcast, with questions for today
By Jake Coyle, The Associated Press on January 16th, 2025
NEW YORK (AP) – Nearly all of the new film “September 5″ takes place in the darkened, smokey control room from which ABC Sports broadcast the hostage crisis of the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich. All around the room is a buzzing clutter of period analog equipment. The video monitors act like windows, offering perspectives ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Conan O’Brien will receive Mark Twain Prize for lifetime achievement in comedy
By Ashraf Khalil, The Associated Press on January 16th, 2025
WASHINGTON (AP) – Comedian and host Conan O’Brien was named the newest recipient of the Mark Twain Prize for lifetime achievement in comedy on Thursday. O’Brien, 61, has carved out an improbable decadeslong career arc, moving from goofy television interloper to comedic elder statesman. Along the way, he survived one of the most public failures ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!No cupcakes, no cosmos: ‘Sex and the City’ brownstone in NYC will get a gate to deter tourists
By Joseph B. Frederick And Michael Hill, The Associated Press on January 15th, 2025
NEW YORK (AP) – Thinking about toasting Carrie Bradshaw with a cosmo while posing on the front steps of her iconic Manhattan brownstone from “Sex and the City?” Think again. The city’s Landmarks Preservation Commission approved an application for a gate Tuesday after Barbara Lorber, who has owned the building since 1978, lamented “the endless ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!‘Conclave’ leads race for British BAFTA awards, one more than ‘Emilia Perez’
By Hilary Fox And Pan Pylas, The Associated Press on January 15th, 2025
LONDON (AP) – Papal thriller ” Conclave “ leads the race – just – for the British Academy Film Awards, with nominations in 12 categories, one more than the genre-busting trans musical ” Emilia Perez.” But with the wildfires in Los Angeles over the past week fresh in the minds of everyone in the movie ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Celebrated artwork will be removed from an Iowa park as its creator ends fight to preserve the work
By Scott Mcfetridge, The Associated Press on January 14th, 2025
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) – A nationally known outdoor artwork will be removed from a park pond in Des Moines under a settlement announced Tuesday, ending a legal fight between the New York artist who created the work decades ago and a local art center that argued it couldn’t afford needed repairs to the site. ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Free e-book compiles excerpts from new works by Emma Donoghue, V.E. Schwab and dozens more
By The Associated Press on January 14th, 2025
NEW YORK (AP) – New fiction by such favorites as V.E. Schwab, Emma Donoghue and Maggie Stiefvater will be excerpted in a free e-book compilation highlighting dozens of upcoming books. Buzz Books 2025: Spring/Summer was published Tuesday by the industry newsletter Publishers Lunch. Featured works include Donoghue’s “The Paris Express,” Schwab’s “Bury Our Bones in ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Jessica Simpson and husband Eric Johnson call time on their relationship
By The Associated Press on January 14th, 2025
Singer-actor Jessica Simpson and her husband, former NFL player Eric Johnson, have separated after 10 years of marriage. “Eric and I have been living separately navigating a painful situation in our marriage,” Simpson, 44, told People in a statement Monday. “Our children come first, and we are focusing on what is best for them. We ... Read More »
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