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Former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi’s private disco featured not only aspiring showgirls performing striptease acts as sexy nuns and nurses, but one woman dressed up as President Barack Obama and a prominent Milan prosecutor whom the billionaire media mogul has accused of persecuting him, ...
Tonkatsu is comfort food, gourmand grub — not a gourmet delicacy. So what are those hearty, unpretentious deep-fried breaded pork cutlets doing in an elegant little bar-style restaurant above one of Ginza’s temples to high-end consumption? Katsuzen has come a long way from its ...
Life in Japan just seems tailor-made for certain foreign residents, who slip into the fabric of this society as smoothly as a hand slides into a glove. American Curtis Patterson, a professional koto player and music teacher, is a case in point. Not only ...
It is a tricky deal being an authorized biographer. Charles Moore’s big advantage over those who have previously tackled Margaret Thatcher is that he has been provided with material denied to them. Of the arrangement that he was offered by his subject, he writes: ...
Unbelievable energy. Splendid self confidence. Never-wavering faith in his abilities or his teammates. Those are ingredients to success for Draelon Burns, the Yokohama B-Corsairs’ super substitute. Burns buried a remarkable three buzzer-beating shots to close out the three final quarters, and his team needed ...
Good things happen for the Bruins in overtime. Even for Brad Marchand. Boston’s leading goal-scorer during the regular season scored his first of the postseason with 4:20 left in the first overtime and the Bruins beat the New York Rangers 3-2 on Thursday night in the first playoff game in ...
The Ottawa Senators have plenty of respect for Sidney Crosby. As they’re quickly learning, perhaps a little too much. Working ...
Johnny Oduya and Marcus Kruger scored in the third period, Corey Crawford made 20 saves and the Chicago Blackhawks beat ...
The Ottawa Senators know there is little margin for error if they want to upset the Pittsburgh Penguins. If they don’t slow down Pittsburgh’s potent power play, they’ll have a difficult time against Sidney Crosby and the rest of the Penguins. Paul Martin and ...
The Boston Bruins turned back Toronto’s comeback with a rally of their own. Trailing by three goals in the third period and still by two with less than 90 seconds left in their season, the Bruins scored twice in a span of 31 seconds ...
Veteran NHL coach Mike Keenan has signed a two-year contract to coach the Russian club Metallurg Magnitogorsk. The Kontinental Hockey League club announced the deal on its website Monday but did not disclose financial details. The 63-year-old Keenan led the New York Rangers to ...
The Detroit Red Wings had firm control of Game 7 right up until Henrik Zetterberg accidentally shot the puck over the glass in the waning minutes. While the captain sat in the box, the Anaheim Ducks scored on the power play to trim Detroit’s ...
Brooks Orpik’s goal would have been memorable even if wasn’t in overtime and didn’t put the Pittsburgh Penguins into the second round of the Stanley Cup playoffs. When you are a defensive-minded defenseman with only 12 goals in nine NHL seasons, they all tend ...
Dustin Penner scored the tiebreaking goal in the final second of the second period, and the Los Angeles Kings advanced to the second round with a 2-1 victory over the St. Louis Blues in Game 6 on Friday night. Jonathan Quick made 21 saves ...
The NHL is “proceeding under the assumption” its players will take part in next year’s Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia, deputy commissioner Bill Daly said Friday. NHL representatives and international hockey and Olympic officials met in Stockholm in a new round of talks aimed ...
One thing the Ottawa Senators and Montreal Canadiens agreed on at the end of their sometimes-bitter playoff series was it all came down to goaltending. Craig Anderson’s rock-solid play and some shaky moments for Montreal backup Peter Budaj put the Senators through to the ...
There’s something about the playoffs that brings the best out of Boston Bruins forward David Krejci. Krejci, in his sixth year in the NHL with the Bruins, broke the Maple Leafs’ hearts Wednesday night with a hat trick, including the overtime winner past James ...
Just when it seemed like the San Jose Sharks would have to make an unwanted trip back to Vancouver, their power-play clicked, and gave the franchise something it never experienced. Patrick Marleau scored a power-play goal 13:18 into overtime and the Sharks completed their ...
After going nearly two full games without a goal, the New York Rangers were hardly expected to net four against Braden Holtby and the Washington Capitals. They did, and it almost wasn’t enough. Derek Stepan and Arron Asham both scored tiebreaking goals in the ...
The reigning Stanley Cup champion Los Angeles Kings will play their first outdoor game in 23 years when they face the Anaheim Ducks next January at Dodger Stadium. The Kings and Ducks will play at the home of the Los Angeles Dodgers on January ...