PHILADELPHIA (CBS) -- Even though the Philadelphia 76ers fell short of tying up their series against the New York Knicks, the team was in good company on Sunday.North Philly native and former Temple University women's basketball coach Dawn Staley was nothing short of an all-star in South Philly on Sunday. Staley kicked off the Sixers game by ringing the bell and flaunting her Allen Iverson T-shirt. The University of South Carolina women's basketball coach had to make a pitstop at Mitchell & Ness...
As nature falls silent in most cities around the world, New Zealand’s capital has been transformed by the sound of native birds returning to the dawn chorus: No birdsong, no water in the creek, no beating wings: how a haven for nature fell silentSome time in the pre-dawn darkness, the commotion starts. From her bed, Danae Mossman hears the noise building: loud romantic liaisons, vomiting, squeals, the sound of bodies hitting the pool at full tilt.Things get particularly loud between midnight and...
This week's featured read is "The Homewreckers" by Mary Kay Andrews.
With four million copies sold and three books in adaptation, the Beach Read author is riding high. She talks about hope, TikTok tropes and escapismA few weeks after Emily Henry’s second romance novel, You and Me on Vacation, was published in May 2021, she noticed a “giant” spike in sales. Her editor and agent had noticed it too. They were all emailing and texting, trying to figure out what was happening, when someone finally cracked it: “It’s BookTok”.Henry had already made it on to the New York...
The special meeting was called after some councillors claimed the consultation did not adequately involve organisations representing people with disabilities.
They had only been married for 11 months when the world-famous novelist was attacked by a frenzied knifeman. His wife remembers the intense drama of hearing the news, and the traumatic aftermathI woke early and alone on the sunny morning of Friday 12 August 2022. I was having coffee at the moment my husband, the Indian novelist Salman Rushdie, was nearly killed in a stabbing on stage in Chautauqua, New York.This was the last morning, innocent and ordinary, before my life was shattered by the 27...
A cocktail recipe book inspired by your favorite pop divas is available to buy. Author Ashley Gibson is a self-proclaimed professional Swiftie. Her new mixology recipe book is called Sip Me, Baby, One More Time
Leicester City have been promoted back to the Premier League from the
Win over Southampton means Midlands side need just one more win – or a Leeds defeat – to secure an instant return to the Premier League
It looks the Women Gamecocks and Coach Dawn Staley have a fan in a famous face in music.
A California Christian club is fighting to put their cross back on display after city officials used eminent domain to remove it while citing complaints of it being "reminiscent of KKK cross-burnings" and offensive to "diverse communities."
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