The evils of late-stage capitalism have been addressed at every film festival ever in recent years, but hardly ever in the midnight strand. This ingenious horror-comedy anthology achieves the almost unthinkable; while it delivers the requisite laughs and shocks — never an easy balance to strike, even at the best of times — Grind is…
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — The Big 12 Conference is ditching its slippery new glass floor for hardwood for the final two days of the tournament. “After consultation with the coaches of our four semifinal teams, I have decided that in order to provide our student-athletes with the greatest level of comfort on a huge…
Paleontologists analyzing fossils from Ethiopia have described a previously unknown crocodile species that shared the landscape with a hominid species called Australopithecus afarensis. Named Crocodylus lucivenator, the formidable predator may have stalked Australopithecus afarensis at watering holes in the wetlands and woodlands of the Pliocene. Crocodylus lucivenator overlapped with the famed Lucy and her hominin…
As the romantic comedy continues to make a comeback, Wishful Thinking adds some magical chaos to the genre. Marking writer/director Graham Parkes feature debut at SXSW, the film stars Lewis Pullman and Maya Hawke as Charlie and Julia, a Portland, Oregon couple whose relationship is riddled with emotional highs and lows as they struggle to…
KANSAS CITY — The Big 12’s LED floor just glitched out permanently. Commissioner Brett Yormark made the decision late Thursday night to make a drastic switch before Friday’s Big 12 Tournament semifinals. The controversial glass floor is gone and a traditional hardwood court is being brought in and installed overnight. Yormark gave CBS Sports this…
Nearly every part of the United States is getting walloped by wild weather or just about to be. Days of downpours have begun in Hawaii. The Southwest will soon bake with day after day of record 100-degree-plus (38 Celsius-plus) heat. Two storms will dump snow by the foot over northern Great Lakes states. And the…
Keeping pace with Hollywood’s awards horserace. Sign up for the newsletter here. Photo: Jesse Grant/Getty Images for TCM Ahead of the 2026 Academy Awards, host Conan O’Brien gave a brief tease at what the late Rob Reiner’s in memoriam tribute would look like on Sunday. “It’s hard to sum up in this environment and would…
After a string of terrorist attacks on U.S. soil, MSNOW’s hacks are pointing the finger of blame in the right direction. No, not at the Islamic culprits. Don’t be silly. They’re pointing at the obvious cause: President Donald Trump! He’s responsible for everything, don’t you know. We’re kidding. But it’s become obvious that the…
CHICAGO — This was hardly a masterpiece of Big Ten basketball, what with the barrage of bricks and busted possessions. Nor was it the sort of night to convince you of UCLA’s chances as a surefire conference contender. But amid the mess of its 72-59 win over 14th-seeded Rutgers on Thursday night, UCLA showed the sort of…
Carolyn Hax is away. The following first appeared March 16, 2012. Dear Carolyn: My last relationship was several years ago. We’d been together for four years and engaged for one. Right before we were supposed to do the deed, he informed me that he never wanted to marry me, never wanted to be in a…
