Christopher Rice returns to New Orleans to honor his famous mother, reflect on the past

On a cool Wednesday morning, sunlight slipped through the curtains of a hotel suite in downtown New Orleans, where Christopher Rice was staying for the week. Starting with the broad balcony overlooking high-rises and a blue sky, he gave a brief...

Epstein cultivated celebrity relationships, even as his 2019 arrest neared

Many of the famous and powerful people who have long sought to publicly downplay their connections to Jeffrey Epstein in fact had more involved relationships than they've acknowledged, according to documents recently made public by Congress....

Why this Giannis Antetokounmpo move wasn't a travel — even if it (maybe) should be

A key moment early in Tuesday’s nationally televised New York Knicks-Milwaukee Bucks game reignited the always-simmering debate over the NBA’s loose interpretation of traveling rules, and it involved a superstar who’s been caught in the crosshairs...

Scholastic Roundup: The 2 most important things in October

When you think of October, two things quickly come to mind – Halloween and “Dig Pink” at St. Edmund Prep High School in Sheepshead Bay. For the past 10 years, during October’s Breast Cancer Awareness Month, the “Dig Pink” campaign has been a...

Which States Are the Most Haunted?

It’s the spooky season. A time to watch horror/slasher films, dress up as a ghoulish monster, and eat a ton of candy. Folklore suggests we put on masks and disguise ourselves to trick the real ghosts on All Hallows’ Eve. It’s fun and exciting, but...

Premier League predictions: Liverpool misery goes on, no stopping Arsenal run

Saturday: Brighton v Leeds United (7pm kick-off UAE) Brighton head into the game on the back of successive aways defeats – 4-2 at Manchester United last Saturday followed by a 2-0 midweek League Cup exit against Arsenal. The Seagulls are 13th in...

‘Malka’ Helmer Stacey Maltin’s Indie Feature ‘C-Side’ Casts Tovah Feldshuh, Lea DeLaria, Jelani Alladin & More As Production Begins In New York

EXCLUSIVE: Production is underway in New York on C-Side, an independent feature film from writer-director Stacey Maltin (Triple Threat), who reunites with Emmy and Tony nominee Tovah Feldshuh (Nobody Wants This) following her performance in the...

Hotel demand slow ahead of FIFA World Cup 2026

Length-of-stay rules have restricted hotel room inventory ahead of the FIFA World Cup 2026, according to a Monday update from hospitality data provider Lighthouse. Meanwhile, overall average hotel prices for the global soccer competition — which...

John Edwards, globe-trotting Daily Mail reporter

John Edwards was enjoying a quiet drink in a Fleet Street bar on May 13, 1981, when the phone next to the till rang. It was his editor at the Daily Mail ordering him to Rome: Pope John Paul II had been shot four times in St Peter’s Square by...

Remembering Catherine Lynch, Berkeley elementary teacher for 30 years

Catherine Lynch. Courtesy of her family Catherine Lynch of Berkeley passed away after a brief illness on Oct. 19. She had the good fortune to end her life in the home where she’d lived for more than 25 years, with her family close by, near the...

The Astorian Lunch Breakers: The gang goes to Mo’s

A newsroom these days might not look like some you may have seen in movies or on TV. There’s the hustle and bustle cacophony of clacking typewriters and ringing phones in “All the President’s Men” and even to a lesser extent, HBO‘s “The Newsroom”...

Delta Air Lines boost African expansion with Atlanta–Marrakech flight

Delta Air Lines has officially launched its first nonstop flight between Atlanta and Marrakech, reportedly marking a historic milestone for the United States carrier and a major step forward in US–Morocco connectivity. Operated by a Boeing...

Is Sophie Cunningham appearing on 'Good Morning America'? Indiana Fever star spotted in New York amid injury setback

Sophie Cunningham. Image via: Sean M. Haffey/ Getty Images Indiana Fever guard Sophie Cunningham will appear on ABC’s Good Morning America on Monday, bringing her vibrant personality to national television just weeks after suffering a...

He escaped from the Nazis, then fought against them

Just weeks before Nazi soldiers came to his house looking for him, Oscar Stein fled home — now, at 102, he’s sharing his story. “When the Nazis took over, it was all low-caliber turmoil,” Stein said from his condo in Malibu, California while...

Everyone seems to think Giannis obviously traveled against Knicks, but did he?

The internet was up in arms over a play in the first quarter of the Milwaukee Bucks' 121-111 win over the New York Knicks on Oct. 28. Giannis Antetokounmpo appeared to take as many as six steps on his way to the rim for a basket, prompting NBC...

Elaine Mokhtefi - “There was a current of confidence and warmth between all of us who were in Algiers working with liberation movements.”

Ari M. Brostoff: You say in your book that you became “Algerianized” before you had ever been to Algeria. What do you mean by this? Elaine Mokhtefi: A few months after I arrived in Paris, I went to the May Day Parade, an enormous event that takes...

All That Jazzmaster: Ode to an icon that luckily missed its mark

How did a guitar that failed to grab its intended market – the market it was literally named after – end up becoming the instrument of choice across surf-rock, post-punk, new wave, power pop, shoegaze and more? If my house was on fire, and my wife...

November in nonfiction: Six new titles featuring iconic moments and fabulous histories of India

All information sourced from publishers. Governors of Empire: The East India Company’s Chief Functionaries in India, Amar Farooqui In April 1608, when a ship named Hector – belonging to the English East India Company – arrived on the shores of...

EXCLUSIVE: Exxon Spinout Sable Leaked Key Info To Investors Including Golfer Phil Mickelson 

Hunterbrook Media’s investment affiliate, Hunterbrook Capital, does not have any positions related to this article at the time of publication. Positions may change at any time. Full disclosures below. The leaked audio recording of the video...

Grand Egypt Museum showcasing glory of the pharaohs finally opens

In an extravaganza of pharaonic imagery with a drone light show depicting ancient gods and pyramids in the sky, Egypt inaugurated its long-delayed Grand Egyptian Museum, a megaproject aiming to give the country’s millennia-old heritage a rich,...