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  • Alley Theatre in Texas puts on Thornton Wilder's last, unfinished play, 'The Emporium'

    April 03, 2024 - 8:22 AM

    NEW YORK (AP) — For Kirk Lynn, it was like a scene from “Raiders of the Lost Ark.” He was in a library at Yale, nervously opening three bankers boxes. Inside were hundreds of pages of an unknown and unfinished play by the great playwright Thornton Wilder.

  • Biden condemns wave of state legislation restricting LGBTQ+ rights, says 'these are our kids'

    June 08, 2023 - 2:51 PM

    WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden on Thursday condemned a wave of “cruel” and “callous” state laws curbing the rights, visibility and health care access of LGBTQ+ people, especially children, leaving them feeling under attack like never before and the White House with limited options to intervene.

  • With Geffen Hall, NY Phil gets a fresh, better sounding home

    October 04, 2022 - 2:05 PM

    NEW YORK (AP) — Forced from their offices early in the pandemic, key leaders of the New York Philharmonic and Lincoln Center met in July 2020 under the trees of the venue’s Capital Grove patio to try to finally solve a decadeslong problem.

  • German federal court mulls bid to remove antisemitic relic

    May 30, 2022 - 8:10 AM

    BERLIN (AP) — A German federal court on Monday mulled a Jewish man's bid to force the removal of a 700-year-old antisemitic statue from a church where Martin Luther once preached, and said it will deliver its verdict in the long-running dispute next month.

  • Something old, something new - the costumes of Downton Abbey

    May 19, 2022 - 10:05 AM

    LONDON (AP) — Something old, something new, something borrowed and something blue — all these elements went into the costuming of “Downton Abbey: A New Era.”

  • Echoes of 2006: Jazz Fest returns to New Orleans for 2022

    April 29, 2022 - 7:08 PM

    NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Once silenced by the COVID-19 pandemic, the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival opened Friday for the first time in three years — a long awaited 2022 revival that holds echoes of 2006 when the annual celebration of music and culture went on even after Hurricane Katrina.

  • Who's going back to the movies? So far, not everyone

    November 11, 2021 - 7:34 AM

    NEW YORK (AP) — The movies are clawing their way back in theaters, but, so far, not everyone is showing up like they used to.

  • Jimmy O. Yang's Crab Club feasts on Asian American stories

    November 05, 2021 - 10:18 AM

    One of the hottest “clubs'' in Hollywood is run by “Crazy Rich Asians” actor Jimmy O. Yang and his producing partners. There's no DJ or bottle service. If you gain entry, you better know how to eat a Dungeness crab.

  • New Orleans gets some Ida relief, but rural pain will linger

    September 10, 2021 - 10:48 AM

    NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Supply trucks are once again delivering beer on Bourbon Street and the landmark Cafe Du Monde is serving beignets, fried pastries covered with white sugar, even though there aren’t many tourists or locals around to partake of either.

  • The Latest: US health officials to release new COVID-19 data

    July 29, 2021 - 5:08 PM

    NEW YORK -- U.S. health officials are expected to release new data about the spread of COVID-19 on Friday that led to their decision to recommend that vaccinated people wear masks in some situations, a reversal of previous guidance.
  • iN RESPONSE: Readers have their say
    Following are emailed reader responses to stories or letters to the editor for the third week of April 2024. They have been edited slightly for readability.  Got something you want to add? Send an email to editor Marshall Jones at mjo
  • Discharge coming from the Sandher Fruit Packer plant. Fruit packers near Kelowna fined another $78,000
    A fruit packing plant in the Ellison area east of Kelowna was hit with another $78,368 in fines for discharging effluent into a failed septic field. That’s now more than $110,000 in fines since 2022 for the same issue at Sandher Fruit

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