Month: April 2023

Introduce your child to the wide array of vehicles that you might buy to broadcast your loss of identity to the outside world.

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LOS ANGELES—Explaining that he didn’t quite understand it but was humbled by the support, Los Angeles Angels pitcher–designated hitter Shohei Ohtani told reporters Monday that he was recently surprised to learn he was massively popular in Japan. “Yeah, apparently I’m huge over in Japan—it’s kind of random, I know, but…

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In her first memoir All You Can Ever Know, Nicole Chung reflects on her adoption story. In her new book, she addresses family and class and her struggles to help her adoptive parents.

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NEW YORK—Amid a slew of rules changes designed to improve the game in the upcoming season, Major League Baseball officials announced Monday that they would speed up play by switching to a computer simulation after the second inning. “Baseball needs to get with the times by making games shorter, so we’ve designed an…

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Listening to old playlists triggers more complicated emotions than looking at old journals; instead of reading stories told from my perspective, I’m hearing music for what it was and always has been.

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In Shouts & Murmurs, Evan Allgood lives the dream: buying a big old house (cheap), chopping wood until he gets buff, and playing poker with the colorful locals. With cameos from John Oliver and A.O.C.

“Son of a Sinner” singer Jelly Roll got emotional during the show in Austin, Texas, as he thanked the country radio industry for its acceptance and shouted out to those who felt like him.

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Seymour Stein, who helped found the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Foundation and was himself inducted into the Rock Hall in 2005, died of cancer in Los Angeles, according to a statement by his family.

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