Sunday, September 8, 2024
As the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles grew to become a pop culture sensation, the place where they were conceived rarely got mentioned.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 05:30AMSaturday, September 7, 2024
By The Associated Press Hallmark launching a streaming service with two new original series, and Bill Skarsgård out for revenge in “Boy Kills World” are some of the new television, film…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMFriday, September 6, 2024
By JOCELYN NOVECK Three years ago, when Team Canada appeared at the opening ceremonies of the Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics, the athletes were dressed in sleek white jeans. They may have lo…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMThursday, September 5, 2024
THOMASTON, Maine (AP) — A Rembrandt discovered in an attic sold for $1.4 million. The 17th century painting, “Portrait of a Girl,” by Dutch artist Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn was di…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMMonday, September 2, 2024
By VINCENT THIAN BEIJING, China (AP) — In Beijing’s Forbidden City, once the sprawling palace to China’s Ming and Qing emperors and their legions of guards and servants, steady streams…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMBy BRYNN ANDERSON Why this photo? CHICAGO (AP) — The Democratic National Convention spans four days. There are a lot of delegates in a large open space. Trying to create an impactful image…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMBy HILLEL ITALIE NEW YORK (AP) — Brandon Sanderson, whose epic “Wind and Truth” is a highlight of the upcoming publishing season, sees nothing wrong with the idea of “escapism.” �…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMBy ANNIE RISEMBERG DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — In a classroom at the House of Urban Culture, tucked away in the narrow streets of Dakar, Senegal, Aminata Thiam claps her hands in time with a bea…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMSunday, September 1, 2024
By The Associated Press “The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives,” a docuseries following young wives in Utah, and the suspenseful thriller “Rebel Ridge” are some of the new television, fil…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMSaturday, August 31, 2024
By LINDSEY BAHR VENICE, Italy (AP) — Jude Law plays an FBI agent investigating the violent crimes of a white supremacist group in “The Order,” which premieres Saturday at the Venice Fi…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 09:43AMBy ALEXIS TRIBOULARD and JULIA FRANKEL HAIFA, Israel (AP) — As her 4-year-old son perused the Israeli museum’s ancient artifacts, Anna Geller looked away for just a moment. Then a crash …
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMBy JILL LAWLESS LONDON (AP) — Oasis fans seeking tickets to the band’s reunion tour endured hourslong waits, and in some cases disappointment, as online platforms strained under demand S…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 05:09AMFriday, August 30, 2024
By VIRGINIA MAYO ANTWERP, Belgium (AP) — The city palace of Baroque painter Peter Paul Rubens is partly reopening this weekend, allowing Antwerp to show off the life and work of perhaps it…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMThursday, August 29, 2024
By ADRIANA MORGA NEW YORK (AP) — Longtime celebrity watchers may not have been shocked when Jennifer Lopez filed for divorce from Ben Affleck, but what was surprising was that Lopez’s di…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 07:25AMWednesday, August 28, 2024
By JAMES POLLARD NEW YORK (AP) — The notion that online gaming could help players develop charitable habits seemed bold when the anti-poverty nonprofit Comic Relief US tested its own multi…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMSaturday, August 24, 2024
By The Associated Press “The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power” returning for its second season and Adam Sandler’s first comedy special since 2018 are some of the new television, f…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMFriday, August 23, 2024
By JESSICA DAMIANO Alicia Silverstone worried fans this week when she posted a TikTok clip of herself nibbling a poisonous berry she found along a sidewalk on a trip to England. The “Cluel…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMTuesday, August 20, 2024
By RYAN DOAN-NGUYEN NEW YORK (AP) — In 1974, Harlem’s deserted streets and tumbledown tenements told the story of a neighborhood left behind. Decades of disinvestment had culminated in a…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMSaturday, August 17, 2024
By The Associated Press Albums from Sabrina Carpenter and Lainey Wilson, as well as John Woo revisiting his 1989 Hong Kong-set action movies “The Killer” are some of the new television, …
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMROME (AP) — Madonna will fund an artistic project involving youths, she announced during her 66th birthday celebrations in Pompeii. While touring the Pompeii archeological park Friday with…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 05:50AMFriday, August 16, 2024
By MARK KENNEDY NEW YORK (AP) — Jack Russell, the lead singer of the bluesy ’80s metal band Great White whose hits included “Once Bitten Twice Shy” and “Rock Me” and was fronting…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 10:22AMThursday, August 15, 2024
By The Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — Los Angeles police have arrested four suspects in the fatal shooting of former “General Hospital” actor Johnny Wactor. The four suspects who …
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 08:05PMBy MICHAEL BALSAMO and ANDREW DALTON LOS ANGELES (AP) — Authorities have arrested at least one person in connection with Matthew Perry’s death from an accidental ketamine overdose last y…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 10:31AMBy CARLA K. JOHNSON In the 1980s and ’90s, Ron Spitzer played bass and drums in rock bands — Tot Rocket and the Twins, Western Eyes and Band of Susans. He sang and wrote songs, toured th…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMMonday, August 12, 2024
By HIRO KOMAE OSHU, Japan (AP) — Katsunori Suzuki is one of a few craftsmen in Japan still producing cast iron cookware by hand using laborious traditional techniques. The president of the…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMSaturday, August 10, 2024
By The Associated Press A country album from Post Malone and Awkwafina playing a struggling actor whose winning lottery ticket has her on the run for her life in “Jackpot!” are some of t…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMFriday, August 9, 2024
By ALICIA RANCILIO Corn dogs, funnel cakes and fried Oreos may come to mind when you think of state fair food, but fairgrounds are also the place where bakers test out their creations by ent…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMThursday, August 8, 2024
By MARK KENNEDY NEW YORK (AP) — Visitors to corn mazes across the country are finding a familiar and joyous figure in the winding labyrinth of tall stalks. Snoopy. More than 80 farms in th…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMSaturday, August 3, 2024
By The Associated Press Netflix’s “The Umbrella Academy” premieres its final season and a Boston heist movie starring Matt Damon and Casey Affleck are some of the new television, films…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMTuesday, July 30, 2024
NEW YORK (AP) — Francine Pascal, a onetime soap opera writer whose “Sweet Valley High” novels and the ongoing adventures of twins Elizabeth and Jessica Wakefield and other teens captiv…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 11:58AMSaturday, July 27, 2024
By ALICIA RANCILIO From “Beaches” to “First Wives Club” and “Hocus Pocus,” Bette Midler has starred in a number of projects where women aren’t just at the center of the story �…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AM 
