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Associated Press Writer LOS ANGELES — Pastors have long competed with the NFL on Sundays, but this season a hipster megachurch is turning the tables with a 30-second ad that could muscle its way into that all holiest of sporting events: the Super Bowl. Mosaic, a 3,000-member megachurch, is one of six finalists in the [...]
Associated Press Writer VANCOUVER, British Columbia — With its colorful ornamental gate, traditional garden and old-Shanghai-style street lamps, a small section of Vancouver lays claim to the title of Chinatown. However, it’s the nearby suburb of Richmond that acts like it. Home to one-sixth of Vancouver’s nearly 700,000 Asians, Richmond considered installing Chinese street signs [...]
AP Drama Writer “The Play That Changed My Life: America’s Foremost Playwrights on the Plays That Influenced Them†(Applause, 173 pages, $18.99), edited by Ben Hodges: Theater can be a transformative experience, particularly for those who choose it as a career. Now the American Theatre Wing has compiled the remembrances of 19 playwrights talking about [...]
Associated Press Writer LITCHFIELD, Conn. — Rip Torn was so intoxicated when he broke into a Connecticut bank carrying a loaded gun that he thought he was home, taking off his hat and boots and leaving them by the door, according to court records. The 78-year-old actor was wearing the same battered boots Monday when [...]
AP Entertainment Writer NEW YORK — “Avatar†is on the cusp of toppling the domestic box-office record after leading all movies for a seventh straight week. James Cameron’s 3-D epic earned $30 million over the weekend, and its domestic total reached $594.5 million, according to studio estimates Sunday. That puts the film only about $6 [...]
MEXICO CITY — Paraguay striker Salvador Cabanas is conscious and could talk to police about being shot in the head while in the bathroom of a Mexico City bar. Cabanas continued his strong recovery Monday, speaking to family members and taking food after doctors lowered his sedation level. A star of the Paraguay national team [...]
RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Brazilian supermodel Gisele Bundchen says she gave birth to her son in a bathtub and that it didn’t hurt a bit. The wife of New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady tells Globo TV she wanted to be aware and calm during birth. So she decided to have her boy, Benjamin, [...]
Associated Press Writer “The Patience Stone†(Other Press, 160 pages, $16.95), by Atiq Rahimi: According to tradition, there’s a stone to which you can vent your pain, share your secrets and unburden your soul. It listens, it absorbs, then one day, it explodes, relieving you of your suffering. In Afghan writer Atiq Rahimi’s clever novel [...]
LEXINGTON, Ky. — DeMarcus Cousins doesn’t answer questions after games so much as he holds court. The gregarious freshman center is as refreshingly unfiltered as head coach John Calipari is polished. Blunt and direct, Cousins is unapologetically honest whether the topic is his sometimes eccentric postgame attire or his ability to attract controversy wherever he [...]
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