Music
Mary Black looks very much like the next big Irish pop star in a pantheon that already includes Enya, Sinead O’Connor, Maire Brennan and Dolores Keane.
Nov. 1, 1993
World & Nation
The police chief in Tampa, Fla., has resigned after using her position to escape a ticket during a traffic stop involving a golf cart driven by her husband.
Dec. 5, 2022
Books
THE GOOD BODY: Asceticism in Contemporary Culture edited by Mary G. Winkler and Letha B.
Nov. 6, 1994
Movies
“Tumbleweeds” is one of those wonderful, deeply personal pictures that pop up every now and then to lift your spirits.
Nov. 24, 1999
Travel & Experiences
Thirteen years ago, when Theresa O’Connor was 87, she won $2,000 and various prizes on the television show “Tic Tac Dough.”
Oct. 7, 1993
PEN USA, the center for International PEN on the West Coast, will honor the distinguished American writer Gore Vidal with a Lifetime Achievement Award tonight.
Nov. 9, 2005
California
Police say Shannon Marie O’Connor gave so much alcohol to her son and other teens that they often vomited and passed out.
Oct. 14, 2021
In 1994, Kenzaburo Oe was awarded the Nobel Prize in literature and in his Stockholm speech, describing his vocation as novelist, he quoted Flannery O’Connor: To write novels is for him “a habit of being.”
May 12, 1996
A Roman Catholic researcher doubts the New Testament account that Christ was born in a stable on a cold winter’s night because there was no room in the inn at Bethlehem.
Dec. 26, 1987