The concept of the “inner city” — or “slums,” as The Times bluntly put it in its first review of “Sesame Street” — was therefore transformed into a kind of Xanadu on the show: a…

In the tennis world, labeling someone a “clay-court specialist” was once a backhanded compliment — code for inferior players often hailing from sunny climes in Spain and Argentina who outlasted…

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Almost all his life Jack Kerouac had a hobby that even close friends and fellow Beats like Allen Ginsberg and William S. Burroughs never knew about. He obsessively played a fantasy baseball game of…

Crunch Fitness, the health-club chain with cardio-strip tease and pole-dancing classes, may have marked the end of an era when it filed for bankruptcy last week after about a 25 percent membership…

A lesser movie would invent some deus ex machina plot device to rearrange these characters where the final scene needs to find them. Holiday, enormously to its credit, never really does that. The…

CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — A person with knowledge of the decision says Campbell will leave the Atlantic Sun Conference and return to the Big South in the 2011-12 academic year.

Le Havre’s relegation to Ligue 2 was confirmed tonight after a home defeat to fellow strugglers St Etienne. Mamadou Diallo and Massamba Sambou netted to put the hosts in the ascendancy after Ilan had…