Dinosaur Bar-B-Que, the 42-year-old barbecue chain that started as a mobile concession at motorcycle rallies and eventually grew to 10 locations across the Northeast, is losing its Brooklyn restaurant later this spring, and that closure will bring the chain down to exactly half o
Charlize Theron gave the most detailed account of her life she has ever given in a New York Times Magazine interview published April 18, 2026. The detail that is stopping people is the moment she describes watching her father’s headlights move across her bedroom wall as he turned
A drug called plixorafenib just received Breakthrough Therapy Designation from the FDA for treating a specific type of aggressive brain and spinal cord tumor, and the reason the designation was granted is a 67 percent overall response rate in a group of patients with a cancer tha
Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan: Ghost War has a full trailer and a release date, and both arrived this week to remind the internet that John Krasinski is not done being Jack Ryan. The feature film, a continuation of the Prime Video series that ran for four seasons from 2018 to 2023, prem
Multiple tornadoes tore through Olmsted County in southeast Minnesota on the afternoon of Friday, April 17, 2026, damaging more than 50 homes, knocking out power to approximately 2,500 customers and prompting the Olmsted County Board of Commissioners to issue a disaster declarati
Erie County Executive Mark Poloncarz wants to replace the Assigned Counsel Program — a 60-year-old system that meets the state-mandated obligation to provide lawyers to people who cannot afford one, those charged with crimes, and indigent parents in Family Court proceedings. He s
Bob Kevoian, who co-founded The Bob & Tom Show with Tom Griswold in Indianapolis in 1983 and built it into one of the most widely syndicated morning radio programs in American history, died on Friday April 17, 2026 at his home surrounded by family and friends. He was 75. He had b
Sabrina Carpenter’s second Coachella headlining set on Friday night, April 17, delivered what the first one promised, and then went significantly further. Where Weekend 1 brought actors, Weekend 2 brought a music legend. Geena Davis appeared during the set to deliver a dramatic m
Apple’s iPhone 18 Pro and Pro Max are coming in September 2026, and for the first time anyone has seen them, they are coming in Dark Cherry. That is the signature new color for this year’s Pro lineup, a deep, wine-toned red that Apple has been developing as the replacement for Co
The Houston Texans and Will Anderson Jr. have agreed to a three-year, $150 million contract extension, making the 23-year-old defensive end the highest-paid non-quarterback in NFL history. The deal, reported by NFL Network’s Ian Rapoport and confirmed by ESPN’s Adam Schefter on F
Top Gun 3 is real. Paramount confirmed it at CinemaCon in Las Vegas on Thursday, April 16, 2026. Tom Cruise is returning as Lt. Pete “Maverick” Mitchell. Jerry Bruckheimer is back as producer. Ehren Kruger, who co-wrote Top Gun: Maverick, has a script that is described as “well u
Garret Anderson, the left fielder who spent 15 seasons as the quiet constant of Los Angeles Angels baseball and became the franchise’s all-time leader in hits, RBIs, games played and five other offensive categories, died on April 16, 2026 at his Newport Beach, California home aft
