Remembering

Believe it or not, in the 1930s, UCLA had a live bear mascot running about the sidelines at football games instead of a costumed one.At the time, the Bruins played home football games at Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum, sharing their…

Juhi Chawla who turns a year older today, has done her share of dramatic and comedy scenes in her career. But thinking about her only action sequence, in Rahul Rawail’s Arjun Pandit in 1999, still gives her the shivers. Recalls Juhi,…

Julie Powell rose to fame by cooking recipes but inspired scores of people with her recipes for success. Julie Powell started out as a food blogger and became a ground-breaking author before she died at the age of 49 in Olivebridge. If…

NEW DELHI: Virat Kohli's unbeaten match-winning half-century in Adelaidein the T20 World Cup Super 12 match against Bangladesh on Thursday once again highlighted the former India captain's love for the conditions Down Under, particularly…

A rare gem in the Indian film industry is a thespian like the late actor Om Puri. As a foundational figure in the Indian new wave, Puri played a significant part in creating a parallel universe for thought-provoking movies. The late…

Om Puri would have turned 72 today if he had not passed away in 2017. He was once shooting with the awesome Helen Mirren in the French town of Albi for Swedish director Lasse Hallstrom’s The Hundred-Foot Journey. He was happy to be in…

When picking your Scrabble partner, or looking for help with the Sunday crossword, you're better off having the girls on side.That's because a new study has found that women are better at finding and remembering words than men.Researchers…

"Women are better. The female advantage is consistent across time and life span, but it is also relatively small," says Marco Hirnstein, professor at The University of Bergen, Norway. Hirnstein is interested in how biological,…

Long Nguyen, in fact, was a walking tome of fashion history, much of which he’d lived—and the rest he had studied. This made him impatient when he felt a designer had failed to live up to his expectations the runway. “He definitely thought…

Come January, Google will be shutting down its Stadia cloud gaming service. In some ways, the move isn’t much of a surprise — as my colleagues have pointed out, there’s been doubt about whether Google was in it for the long haul with Stadia…