(Credit: iStock) Commercial real estate investors are looking at the difference between long-term interest rates and property yields and seeing a clear sign the current market cycle is sputtering out. That spread between rates and yields have reached their narrowest margin in more than a decade. For some market pros, that is enough to predict […]
Blog: Homage, Not Larceny: On Nicholas Friedman’s “Petty Theft”
DECEMBER 18, 2018 NICHOLAS FRIEDMAN’S first book of poems, Petty Theft, won the prestigious New Criterion Poetry Prize, a contest open to manuscripts that “pay close attention to form.” The selection of Friedman’s book is hardly surprising; his carefully crafted poems have been showing up with regularity in Poetry, The Yale Review, and other top […]
Blog: Galaxy welcome back Zlatan Ibrahimovic and Juninho
Te Kloese, the Galaxy’s new general manager, is off to an aggressive start in his own return to MLS. In addition to the acquisition of Juninho, Te Kloese has re-signed defender Rolf Feltscher and Ibrahimovic — by far his biggest offseason priority — and made progress on the re-signings of at least two other players. […]
New top story from Time: Penny Marshall, Director and Laverne and Shirley Star, Dies at 75
(LOS ANGELES) — Penny Marshall, who starred in “Laverne & Shirley” before becoming one of the top-grossing female directors in Hollywood, has died. She was 75. Mashall’s publicist, Michelle Bega, said Marshall passed away in her Hollywood Hills, Calif., home on Monday due to complications from diabetes. Marshall starred alongside Cindy Williams in the hit […]
Blog: The Fight Corner: Anthony Joshua vs. Deontay Wilder has to happen sometime
He told media outlets, including The Times, earlier Saturday that “I’m here. I’m someone who gets my feet wet before I dive in. I’m getting to know the fans, the culture, the people. It’s good for me to come in and let them get to know me, to speak to them, to get to know […]
Blog: ‘Simply heartbroken’: Penny Marshall remembered for her TV and film achievements
Some celebrated Marshall’s iconic monogrammed sweaters from her sitcom stardom days, and others praised her masterful direction of Tom Hanks in “Big.” But all mourned the woman who, along with Cindy Williams, immortalized the words “Schlemiel! Schlimazel! Hasenpfeffer Incorporated!” in the opening credits of “Laverne & Shirley.” Source: latimes.com – Los Angeles Times