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The cultural legacy of the 1984 rock-mock-doc โThis Is Spinal Tapโ is of sufficient amplitude that, to give the bandโs guitarist Nigel Tufnel (Christopher Guest) his knob-twiddling due, itโs gone way past 11. Perennially quotable, ad-libbed to Brit-accented perfection by co-creators Guest, Michael McKean and Harry Shearer and finessed into an iconic spoof by director…
JERUSALEM ย โย Hamas accepted most of President Trumpโs terms for ending the war in Gaza on Friday, delivering a โYes, but โฆโ response that agreed to handing over all hostages and relinquishing control of the enclave, but stopped short of the full surrender outlined in the agreement. The response came the day Trump said that the…
A federal judge Thursday said she was โinclined to extendโ an earlier ruling and order the Trump administration to restore an additional $500 million in UCLA medical research grants that were frozen in response to the universityโs alleged campus antisemitism violations. Although she did not issue a formal ruling late Thursday, U.S. District Judge Rita…
Two years after a crushing breakup, singer-songwriter Amanda Shires is sitting in an empty hotel bar, her arms shaking as she reads a page from her notebook. Sheโs been stumbling, she says, in interviews, struggling to explain how she transformed one of the deepest pains of her life into art. The work in question, โNobodyโs…
Lin-Manuel Miranda: The Education of an Artist By Daniel Pollack-PelznerSimon & Schuster: 400 pages, $30If you buy books linked on our site, The Times may earn a commission from Bookshop.org, whose fees support independent bookstores. For a high school assignment, Lin-Manuel Miranda tried to make a film about the 1804 duel between Alexander Hamilton and…
The Sparks won a critical game Sunday, defeating the Washington Mystics 81-78 to keep their slim playoff hopes alive heading into the final two weeks of the regular season. Washington hit a trio of three-pointers in the final minute, but Dearica Hambyโs jumper in the paint and Kelsey Plumโs two free throws in the final…
The private equity backers of London’s biggest estate agency chain are exploring a potential sale valuing it at more than ยฃ500m, despite the looming threat of Rachel Reeves’ new “mansion tax”. Sky News has learnt that Oakley Capital, which acquired a majority stake in Dexters in 2021, is close to hiring investment bankers to evaluate…
A suspended Labour MSP has denied allegations he placed a secret camera in toilets in the Scottish parliament. Colin Smyth has been charged by police in relation to the allegation, according to the PA news agency. The South Scotland MSP was arrested on 5 August and charged with a separate offence of possession of indecent…
Salzburg, Austriaย โย The news of Robert Wilsonโs death at age 83 in New York reached me in a Wilsonian way โ at the theater and absorbed in the kind of uncompromisingly slow, shockingly beauteous and incomprehensibly time-and-space-bending weirdness Wilson took infinite pleasure in hosting when he made what he called operas. He called everything he staged…
Its campus and enrollment are tiny, but Marymount High is a giant in the world of high school volleyball and this yearโs squad looks to have the talent to compete for a championship. The Sailors took first place out of 64 teams at the prestigious Durango Fall Classic in Las Vegas, taking down rival Sierra…
