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  • The irony of Steve Martin's life isn't lost on him

    March 28, 2024 - 10:16 PM

    NEW YORK (AP) — Steve Martin has long marveled at the many phases of his life. There’s his youth as a Disneyland performer, surrounded by vaudeville performers and magicians. A decade as a stand-up before the sudden onset of stadium-sized popularity. An abrupt shift to movies. Later, a new chapter as a banjo player, a father and, a comedy act, once again, with Martin Short.

  • The irony of Steve Martin's life isn't lost on him

    March 26, 2024 - 6:04 PM

    NEW YORK (AP) — Steve Martin has long marveled at the many phases of his life. There’s his youth as a Disneyland performer, surrounded by vaudeville performers and magicians. A decade as a stand-up before the sudden onset of stadium-sized popularity. An abrupt shift to movies. Later, a new chapter as a banjo player, a father and, a comedy act, once again, with Martin Short.

  • Dior mania and K-Pop overtake Paris Fashion Week menswear

    January 20, 2023 - 3:53 PM

    PARIS (AP) — Dior mania descended on Paris Fashion Week menswear Friday as over a thousand screaming fans thronged the magnificent Place de la Concorde for a glimpse of their favorite stars, with some almost risking their lives in snarled traffic.

  • Beyond the grunt: Umpires mic up, and baseball changes a bit

    October 04, 2022 - 12:12 PM

    NEW YORK (AP) — After a century and a half of Major League Baseball — after generations of grunts and growls, of muffled shouts and dramatic arm gestures and a cultivated sense of remoteness — something quietly extraordinary happened to the national pastime this year: The umpires began talking to the world.

  • Celebs try to out-camp each other at wild Met Gala

    May 07, 2019 - 6:43 AM

    NEW YORK - Cardi B swept by in a stunning red quilted dress accentuated with a matching sequin headpiece, feathers and a train that took up much of the pink carpet, Jared Leto was accompanied by his own (fake) head and Katy Perry came as a candled chandelier at the crazy, campy Met Gala on Monday night.

  • 'McQueen' examines career of a brilliant, troubled designer

    July 17, 2018 - 4:09 PM

    NEW YORK - The London fashion world didn't know quite what hit it when Alexander McQueen's disheveled models staggered down the runway at his 1995 "Highland Rape" show, their Scottish-inspired clothing ripped to expose breasts and nether regions.

  • AP: Slavery, child labour tied to shrimp global supply chains, including Wal-Mart, Red Lobster

    December 14, 2015 - 6:05 PM

    SAMUT SAKHON, Thailand - Poor migrant workers and children are being sold to factories in Thailand and forced to peel shrimp that ends up in global supply chains, including those of Wal-Mart and Red Lobster, the world's largest retailer and the world's largest seafood restaurant chain, an Associated Press investigation found.

  • Unboxing videos on the rise, freezing that big reveal of anything from new phone to Happy Meal

    November 25, 2014 - 10:24 AM

    NEW YORK, N.Y. - Rrrrip goes the packing tape and squeak goes the protective foam. Are there sweeter, more seductive sounds than the opening of a new toy or gadget?

  • Though rare, retinal detachments put vision at risk; immediate care required

    July 15, 2013 - 6:00 AM

    TORONTO - Pat Sedgwick awoke earlier than usual on an August morning last summer to a rolling curtain of black dots blocking the vision of her right eye.
  • 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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