On the eve of his pro tour debut, Danny Baggish talks bright lights, tense moments and how carnivals put the big stuffed animals away when they see him coming. After years of working construction in Florida and playing in not especially lucrative darts events in the United States, Danny Baggish finally made his big breakthrough
Daily Express/Pictorial Parade, Hulton Archive, via Getty Images How a Trinidadian Communist Invented London’s Biggest Party The Notting Hill Carnival was canceled last year. But it likely wouldn’t exist at all without the efforts of Claudia Jones. For the Caribbean diaspora living in London, there may never have been a quieter weekend than the one
New research finds that the British variant is “likely” to be linked to a higher risk of hospitalization and death, laying bare the danger facing countries that ease restrictions. LONDON — British government scientists are increasingly finding the coronavirus variant first detected in Britain to be linked to a higher risk of death than other
A report said the company, which has lagged behind on issues of race, needs to do more to promote diversity. The Paris Opera — one of the world’s most revered and traditional companies — has for years been seen as having much work to do on race. It has only a few Black dancers in
A New York-born protégé of Martha Graham, he and a rich patron revolutionized dance in the U.K. with a cutting-edge new form. Robert Cohan, a New York-born dancer and choreographer who changed the course of British dance by helping to establish an acclaimed contemporary dance company and school in London in the late 1960s, died
Portugal once stood out in Europe for having no real far-right presence in politics. Those days appear over. Portugal’s president was re-elected on Sunday to a second term in office, but the vote also confirmed the rise of a far-right politician who formed his party less than two years ago. Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, Portugal’s
This global cultural battle will continue because the conditions of its eruption — insecurity, disappearing jobs, resentment in societies made still more unequal by the impact of Covid-19 — persist from France to Latin America. The Trump phenomenon also persists. His tens of millions of supporters are not about to vanish. “Were the events at
The government survived a near-collapse, but it remained unclear just what Matteo Renzi, the ambitious former prime minister, hoped to gain by provoking it. ROME — The Italian government survived a near-collapse amid a pandemic and economic crisis on Tuesday as Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte cobbled together just enough support to win a confidence vote
She died above the bookstore, founded in 1840, where she had worked since the waning months of World War II. She locked it up for the last time in December. BERLIN — After Helga Weyhe locked up her bookstore in the town of Salzwedel, Germany, each evening, she would make her usual commute — a
Saying he will be vaccinated himself next week, Francis described the refusal to get the vaccine as suicidal. ROME — Pope Francis said he would be vaccinated against the coronavirus as early as next week, calling it a lifesaving, ethical obligation and the refusal to do so suicidal, according to remarks made to an Italian