The Crucible Curse refers to the fact that no first-time winner of the World Snooker Championship has retained the title ...

Award-winning comic creator Edward Taylor is seeking support for his latest project, 100 Dialogues between St. Jerome, a Cat ...

Trump has built his season around competing for a second world championship, but hasn't reached a final so far in 2025 ...

When getting to the stage of my fire service career where I wanted to become a captain, I didn’t truly understand what I needed to do. I thought I did, but I didn’t. I was convinced, even though I had ...

I fancy solemn, angular, creaky-sounding words—those that ... bare under the demands of agriculture requiring expertise not found in manuals but earned through the crucible of experience. As the tale ...

The Shanghai International Circuit is crucible of engineering and driver skill, where Formula 1 teams must strike the right ...

The Magician has put in a host of impressive showings but a man who knows all about winning in Sheffield doesn't fancy him ...

The French director Alain Guiraudie’s latest film, a bent kind of murder mystery, presents life at its basest and gamiest. By Wesley Morris This gimmicky thriller starring Bill Skarsgard and ...

For a period of time, the Grill always felt like a gentlemen’s club (even though women were technically allowed) serving up classic meat dishes as opposed to fancy French food. With the smell of smoke ...