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SENSATIONAL: Andy Warhols A Boy for Meg series, on display at the National Gallery, takes on the tabloids enchantment with celebrity, which Warhol shared. (Paul J. Richards, AFP/Getty Images)

Is todays jobs report good news? Oh, the headlines will be nice: A lowering of the national unemployment rate from 9.2 percent to 9.1 percent, private sector employment increasing by 154,000, a revision of previous months data to show slightly better numbers But as many others have noted this morning, almost another 200,000 Americans left [...]

Billy Hunter doubts entire 11-12 season – Players Association executive director Billy Hunter says the 2011-12 NBA season will likely be canceled entirely because the commissioners negotiating leeway is in danger of being undermined by a group of hard-line owners.  The circumstances have changed among [David Sterns] constituency, Hunter told a group of lawyers Wednesday, [...]

Tony Parker: Why The Hate? (Part 1) – Three time NBA Champion, three time NBA All-star, and throw in an NBA Finals MVP award. Normally, any player with those type of credentials would be forever loved in the city he plays in. That’s not the case for Spurs guard Tony Parker, who has all the [...]

Foreclosure filings excite media outlets Just as it has been in recent history, low foreclosure filing numbers have traditional media outlets and misled bloggers to proclaim a sunny spot in the real estate sector. Looking at a chart of foreclosures just for the past year, the first half of the year looks pretty healthy as [...]

Nowitzki, Mavs take big honors at ESPY Awards – Dirk Nowitzki and his teammates were feeling so good, they broke out in another rendition of We are the Champions.  It was definitely a fun night to be a member of the Dallas Mavericks.  Nowitzki picked up a pair of trophies, including male athlete of the [...]

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Al Foster, a master drummer who famously collaborated with Miles Davis for many years, is the headlining closer Sunday at 7:30 pm for the 20th annual Greater Hartford Festival of Jazz, a free, three-day bash this weekend in Hartfords Bushnell Park. As a sign of this years tight budget constraints, the GHFJ has had to [...]

Josh Ritter’s most recent album is 2010′s “So Runs the World Away,” its title a literary reference to a line Hamlet speaks to Horatio as imagined, of course, by William Shakespeare. So it should be no surprise that the 34-year-old rock singer-songwriter has written his first novel, Bright’s Passage, released on June 28. “Bright’s Passage [...]