PEBBLE BEACH, Calif. — Taylor Swift boosted ticket sales to the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-am without even being there. Pebble Beach had an extra buzz Friday morning with rumors swirling in the cool Pacific breeze Swift would be there to watch her fiancé, Kansas City Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce, playing in the PGA Tour…
NEW YORK — This Valentine’s Day, Rodney Ingram will be doing what he loves with the one he loves. All on Broadway. The newlywed plays the title role in Disney’s “Aladdin” alongside his wife, Sonia, who covers multiple roles. It’s a workplace romance at the pinnacle of musical theater. “This is so rare,” he says….
NEW YORK — NEW YORK (AP) — PEN America announced Thursday that interim CEOs Summer Lopez and Clarisse Rosaz Shariyf have been appointed to permanently oversee the century-old literary and free expression organization. “Summer and Clarisse have been the guiding force behind PEN America’s extraordinary literary programming and robust defense of free expression,” Dinaw Mengestu,…
ANTERSELVA, Italy — Strula Holm Laegreid of Norway won a bronze medal at the Milan Cortina Olympics on Friday in the men’s sprint biathlon race — three days after making an unexpected confession during a post-race interview. Laegreid also won bronze in the 20-kilometer individual race on Tuesday, but revealed in a live broadcast that…
DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. — Garrett Mitchell is better known as “Cleetus McFarland” to his millions of followers gained over the years as a racing influencer. He’s pretty much always been called a YouTuber, until he was out to dinner last week when a fan stopped by and referred to him as a NASCAR driver. It…
NEW YORK — Pene Pati was cautioned as a 20-year-old not to pursue a singing career, an unusual occupation for a Samoan who grew up in New Zealand “Lots of people want to become a singer because they want the lifestyle,” the tenor recalled. “Whereas for me, I did it out of spite, to be…
NEW YORK — The legacy of Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl halftime show continues. Streams of his catalog jumped 175% in the U.S. on Monday, the day after the Super Bowl, when compared to the previous Monday, Feb. 2. That’s according to Luminate, an industry data and analytics company that provides insight into changing behaviors across…
The American actor James Van Der Beek, best known for his role as the titular character of the ’90s and early ’00s teen drama “Dawson’s Creek,” has died Notable reaction to the death of actor James Van Der Beek at age 48. “James Van Der Beek was one in a billion and he will be…
NEW YORK — James Van Der Beek, a heartthrob who starred in coming-of-age dramas at the dawn of the new millennium, shooting to fame playing the titular character in “Dawson’s Creek” and in later years mocking his own hunky persona, has died. He was 48. “Our beloved James David Van Der Beek passed peacefully this…
NEW YORK — Hernan Diaz’s first novel since his Pulitzer-Prize winning “Trust” is a futuristic thriller in which a young orphan survives by stealing electricity from the grid and selling it on the black market. Riverhead Books announced Wednesday that the 464-page “Ply” will be published Sept. 29. At least in one way, the book…
