Book review (Nonfiction): ‘The Glass Universe: How the Ladies of the Harvard Observatory Took the Measure of the Stars’ by Dava Sobel

Marchand says the slur happened two days ago and he thought it important to go public and reply directly to the person who wrote it. The player says this struck home because he has a “few friends that are in same-sex relationships.”

TONIGHT ON ABC 20/20: Todd Fisher on the death of his mother Debbie Reynolds a day after his sister Carrie Fisher passed away: “She then said that she really wanted to be with Carrie in those precise words….and within 30 minutes she technically was gone.” http://abcn.ws/2iyEOzQ

With the 2017 Allstate Sugar Bowl drawing near, the city of New Orleans prepared Friday for an influx of Auburn and Oklahoma fans by garbing itself in orange and blue. Throughout the French Quarter, several local business displayed Auburn flags, T-shirts, beads and more while Tigers fans enjoyed the local entertainment and dining.

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Few would call it a banner year for WWE, but we found the company’s brightest spots of 2016. On our wrestling podcast “Rammer Slammer,” we talked things over with Ben Stark, Graham Flanagan and Will Nevin to single out our favorite WWE wrestlers, matches and moments of the past year.

DEAR ABBY: I’m a 27-year-old mother of three in the process of divorcing a man I have been with for seven years, during two of which we were married. We have remained civil up to this point, although he is hurt because I’m the one who ended things.

Where should you travel in 2017? Maybe you want to witness the U.S. solar eclipse, take advantage of great exchange rates abroad or get in on the hoopla for big anniversaries in places like Alaska, Germany, Canada or Finland. Perhaps you’re looking for a Zika-free beach or a destination unscathed by terrorism.

Victoria Beckham has been recognised with an OBE in the New Year’s Honours after establishing herself as a powerful force in the fashion industry. We are unable to send your welcome email at this time.

A total of 455 scripted series aired in 2016, and 2017 is poised to be even more jam-packed. Check out exclusive new images and first looks at new and returning series premiering in the first half of the year.

An African-American father struggles with race relations in the U.S. while trying to raise his family in the 1950s and coming to terms with the events of his life. Rated PG-13 Over the holidays, Ned, an overprotective but loving dad, and his family visit his daughter at Stanford, where he meets his biggest nightmare: her well-meaning but socially awkward Silicon Valley billionaire boyfriend, Laird.

… their actual homes could not be farther from it. Who are these celebrities, you may ask? PrettyFamous , an entertainment site by Graphiq , found the answer. The team of experts looked up the backgrounds of prominent American-born actors to find the …

DEAR ABBY: My husband and I are in our 30s. We do well for ourselves and are generally happy.

I have someone wonderful in my life. We’ve been living together for almost three years and she wants to get married in a year.

Polished, perverse and filled with enough twists to snap your neck, “Evolution” is a sinister French fantasy that is about children, but decidedly not for them. An acute sense of melancholy and existential dread is exclusively for grown-ups.

The rankings are according to the “percentage of fatal crashes that involved alcohol” based on statistics from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.

Gabor died at 99 after suffering a heart attack at her home in Bel-Air, Los Angeles, on December 18. A memorial service for the Hungarian-born star is being held at the Church of the Good Shepherd in Beverly Hills A memorial service is being held at the Church of the Good Shepherd in Beverly Hills on Friday, hosted by her widower Frederic Prinz von Anhalt. The service will be followed by a private burial where Gabor will be laid to rest next to her sister Ava Gabor and daughter Francesca Gabor Hilton, who died last year.

The famous bathing scene in this year’s series of Poldark has topped a poll of biggest television moments of 2016. A year after Aidan Turner’s shirtless scything in the BBC drama staked its claim in the same list, the scene in this year’s series, which showed him washing himself down in a tin bath, enthralled viewers once again.

Conor Kennedy is in trouble, trouble, trouble.

And he delivered results in the form of an ACC Coastal Division title, road conquests of North Carolina and Pittsburgh, and an innovative attack reminiscent of his time as TCU’s coordinator and Memphis’ head coach. Then came Thursday, a night this program, this coach and these resolute players, not to mention their leather-lunged fans, will long treasure.

Janice was a character on the TV show Friends. She was the character Chandler’s on-again, off-again girlfriend.

ESPN broadcaster Holly Rowe and Appalachian State women’s basketball coach Angel Elderkin are co-recipients of the USBWA Pat Summitt Most Courageous Award. Rowe has also been battling cancer this year.

You can add Rob Kardashian to the list of people who are ready to get 2016 over with already. The reality star was rushed to the hospital following a medical emergency on Wednesday night.

New York City police want to question three women in connection with the hit-and-run death of a popular Spanish radio DJ. Jean Paul Guerrero was fatally struck crossing a Brooklyn street Dec. 19. He was better known as DJ Jinx Paul on Mega 97.9, a New York Spanish-language radio station that broadcasts tropical music such as salsa and merengue.

To find out if more famous people really are dying this year, DailyRecord.co.uk looked at the list of celebrity deaths on Wikipedia from 2010 to 2016. Then we obtained the traffic statistics for each of those celebrities’ pages on the online encyclopedia for the year before they died.

The singer was spotted shopping in Beverly Hills yesterday, keeping a low profile with an oversized hat and dark glasses. Some of the singer’s followers rushed to Twitter to share their excitement, with one saying: “Ok look at her hand… It’s a f***ing wedding band! You can argue with me but still.”

A 65-year-old Akron bar DJ will serve four years in prison for beating a man to death who had complained that the music he was playing was too loud. Robert Jarvis was sentenced Wednesday in Summit County Common Pleas Court for the fatal Jan. 8 fight that resulted in the death of 43-year-old Forrest Ryan, of North Canton.

Russian Defense Ministry spokesman Maj. Gen. Igor Konashenkov described the cartoons as “excrements,” saying in Thursday’s statement that “it is humiliating for a normal person even to pay attention to this labored filth.”

The couple spoke openly and honestly in a candid 14-minute video – dubbed A Conversation on Alcoholism and Addiction – posted to YouTube by Nadia, on the page she shares with Loose Women co-host Kaye Adams.

The St. Louis Dispatch reports that the crew from A&E Network’s “The First 48” is scheduled to begin taping in the city in mid-January, with the first episode expected to air six to eight months later. Police Chief Sam Dotson says that, although the show emphasizes violence and has the potential to complicate prosecutions, he believes St. Louis’ involvement could improve the reputation of the city’s officers and boost cooperation with the public.

They say breaking up is hard to do, but in Hollywood it seems like staying together is the real challenge. Take a look back at the most shocking celebrity splits of 2016 …

A woman involved in a heated debate with Fox News Channel’s Tucker Carlson over Ivanka Trump said Tuesday she’s received thousands of angry responses, including being threatened with rape on Christmas Day. The reaction to Lauren Duca, a writer for Teen Vogue magazine, is the latest example of how ugliness in political discourse didn’t end with the election.

Carrie Fisher at the red-carpet premiere of “Star Wars: The Force Awakens” in Hollywood on Dec. 14, 2015. Last year, months before “Star Wars: The Force Awakens” officially reunited the original cast and crew of the Millennium Falcon, there was a small disturbance in the Force.

Inspection Highlights: Poisonous/Toxic material stored above food, equipment, utensils, linens, single-service articles, single-use articles by locating poisonous/toxic materials as to not permit contamination. Observed tops to drinking cups stored with hazardous chemicals.

Albums at that time, nearly dead in the music industry, remained a niche of audiophiles and collectors. But new pressings by small and obscure bands hooked Harrington on the vinyl music medium and partly led to a stint working in a record store.

Andrew Garfield, star of Mel Gibson’s “Hacksaw Ridge” and Martin Scorsese’s “Silence” stops by TheWrap for interview and phhoto session.

The weather outside is frightful, but Kylie Jenner isn’t feeling the cold.

The weather outside is frightful, but Kylie Jenner isn’t feeling the cold.

Pop superstar George Michael has been described by his closest friends as a “beautiful person” and a “kind and generous man” following his shock death. We are unable to send your welcome email at this time.

The Night Manager has scored another victory this year by being named the best television programme of 2016 in a Radio Times critics’ poll, just weeks after it picked up four Golden Globe nominations. We are unable to send your welcome email at this time.

The Night Manager has scored another victory this year by being named the best television programme of 2016 in a Radio Times critics’ poll, just weeks after it picked up four Golden Globe nominations. We are unable to send your welcome email at this time.