Friday, December 19, 2025
By The Associated Press As 2025 winds down, holiday lights are illuminating communities around the world, transforming familiar landmarks into scenes of shared wonder. From glowing waterfron…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 03:38AMThursday, December 18, 2025
By RONALD BLUM NEW YORK (AP) — Christine Baranski was in the playground outside St. Matthew’s Church in Bedford, New York, about three years ago when she came across Matthew Guard, artis…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:15AMWednesday, December 17, 2025
By JOHN MYERS JR. and DÁNICA COTO KINGSTON, Jamaica (AP) — The instructions on Wednesday were clear: no serious, sad or long faces. And the crowd filing into a gymnasium in Jamaica’s ca…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:13PMSunday, December 14, 2025
By FERNANDA PESCE and MARIA VERZA SAN ISIDRO BUEN SUCESO, Mexico (AP) — In the Mexican mountain town of San Isidro Buen Suceso, Virginia Verónica Arce Arce begins her days as she has for …
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:30AMSaturday, December 13, 2025
By ALMUDENA CALATRAVA BUENOS AIRES (AP) — At a dance hall in the heart of Buenos Aires, 14 men in elegant dark suits sat at separate tables while across the room, 14 women in dresses and h…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 07:00AMBy The Associated Press Marlon Wayans starring in the Jordan Peele-produced football thriller “Him” and the iHeartRadio Z100’s Jingle Ball 2025 featuring Conan Gray, Ed Sheeran, Jelly …
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:05AMFriday, December 12, 2025
GENEVA (AP) — Switzerland’s long-celebrated yodeling has received a response from the U.N. cultural agency: The Alpine tradition of chant and song is indeed worthy of classification in a…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:05AMThursday, December 11, 2025
Dozens of pieces from the collection are expected to fetch at least $50 million.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 01:26PMThe sale set records for highest selling piece of memorabilia from the film franchise.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 01:22PMBy MOSA’AB ELSHAMY MARRAKECH, Morocco (AP) — The carpet outside the 2025 edition of the Marrakech International Film Festival was unfurled in its usual red, but the stars who walked acro…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 07:33AMBy DÁNICA COTO and EVENS SANON PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Compas, a beloved Haitian music and dance genre inspired by merengue and infused with percussion, made UNESCO’s cultural heri…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:15AMBy HILLEL ITALIE NEW YORK (AP) — Melanie Moore, who runs the Ohio-based Cincy Book Bus, is one of hundreds of booksellers who received a pleasant surprise for the holidays: a check for $50…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:05AMBy The Associated Press The joy of being there, of prayer and play, a dance in a bomb shelter, a kiss in a flood and a hug in the mud, kids rolling tires and scooting among the ruins of Gaza…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 03:02AMTuesday, December 9, 2025
By HELENA ALVES AMADORA, Portugal (AP) — One mural, “No Poverty,” shows a Black woman tenderly braiding the hair of a white woman — a snapshot of family bonds that grew out of diffic…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:20AMBy HILLEL ITALIE NEW YORK (AP) — A memoir by Eric Dane, the “Grey’s Anatomy” and “ Euphoria” actor who has been diagnosed with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, will be published ne…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:05AMSaturday, December 6, 2025
By The Associated Press A six-episode, behind-the-scenes Disney+ docuseries about Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour and Rian Johnson’s third “Knives Out” movie, “Wake Up Dead Man,” are so…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:05AMWednesday, December 3, 2025
NEW YORK (AP) — The end of 2025 is near. And the season of unwrapping our online lives — or at least a glimpse of what they looked like over the past year — is well underway. Music str…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 03:00PMBy HILLEL ITALIE NEW YORK (AP) — The year in publishing saw such notable releases as the latest “Hunger Games” novel and the first book in years from Thomas Pynchon. Readers also sough…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:05AMSaturday, November 29, 2025
By The Associated Press George Clooney playing a dashing movie star with nagging midlife regrets in “Jay Kelly” and Zac Brown Band returning with fresh tunes are some of the new televisi…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:05AMFriday, November 28, 2025
By CIARÁN FAHEY BERLIN (AP) — Rare photographs of Ireland from 1963 show a world about to disappear, a country before it took its first steps toward modernity. Black and white images capt…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:15AMBy JILL LAWLESS LONDON (AP) — A rare crystal and diamond Fabergé egg crafted for Russia’s ruling family before it was toppled by revolution is going up for auction, valued at more than …
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:05AMThursday, November 27, 2025
By The Associated Press Acclaimed architect Robert A.M. Stern, a prominent figure in American architecture who designed notable museums, libraries and residences, died Thursday, according to…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 04:06PMWednesday, November 26, 2025
By HILLEL ITALIE NEW YORK (AP) — Writers in U.S. prisons will have a new path to getting their work seen through a website managed by PEN America that includes information on publishers, a…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:05AMTuesday, November 25, 2025
By MARIA SHERMAN NEW YORK (AP) — ‘Tis the season to put on some brand-new holiday music. The best way to get festive is to sing along to Christmas classics new and old. But don’t know …
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:05AMSaturday, November 22, 2025
By The Associated Press Bong Joon Ho’s “Mickey 17,” a new batch of “Stranger Things’” final season and Kevin Hart debuting a new comedy special on Netflix are some of the new tel…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:15AMFriday, November 21, 2025
The two went from adversaries to friends during the AIDS crisis.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 02:06PMBy JOSEPH B. FREDERICK and PHILIP MARCELO NEW YORK (AP) — A beloved Christmas tree tradition is returning to Manhattan for the holiday season next week. No, it’s not the towering spruce …
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 07:15AMThursday, November 20, 2025
The painting shows Kahlo asleep in a bed with a skeleton above her.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 02:12PMBy PAN PYLAS LONDON (AP) — Gary Mounfield, the former bass player of the Stone Roses and Primal Scream, two of the most influential British rock bands of the past four decades, has died. H…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 12:59PMBy COLLEEN BARRY MILAN (AP) — Prada heir Lorenzo Bertelli will have a major strategic role as executive chairman of Versace after the Prada Group completes its 1.25 billion-euro ($1.4 bill…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 07:10AMBy HILLEL ITALIE NEW YORK (AP) — The 76th National Book Awards will unveil this year’s winners Wednesday night, with novels by Megha Majumdar and Karen Russell, and a memoir by Yiyun Li …
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:05AM 
