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More than 50 million Americans tackle a crossword puzzle everyday.A crossword pro shared his tips for how the average person can improve his crossword skills.Get started with easier puzzles and look for fill-in-the-blank clues first, he says.For more than 50 million Americans, solving a crossword puzzle is a part of life. Advertisement But only one can claim to be the best in the country. That distinction goes to Howard Barkin, a New Jersey software analyst who won the American Crossword Puzzle Tournament April 2016.

The Grateful Dead's offshoot band, Dead and Company, concluded its final tour in California on Sunday. For fans and vendors who have been following the bands for decades, it's the end of an era. ncG1vNJzZmivp6x7r7zRZ6arn19nfXN%2FjmluaGlnZH5yhJdqb2pqZGl8qsCMsJisZZensqLAjLCfoqSVYra1ecuaqq2dlGKxpq3DZpinnF2YvK68wKewZqCRqHqku82co66clZl6p7XNmqNmrJ%2Bqv261zWaamqSZm7w%3D

Brits have been told to wait to book holidays until they have a valid passport. Picture: Alamy People awaiting passport renewals should wait to book holidays, the government has said. Listen to this article Loading audio... The government has urged people awaiting a passport renewal to hold off from booking holidays abroad. As many as 9.5 million passport applications are predicted to be made this year, after millions expired during the coronavirus pandemic.

Getty/Instagram/@countrymousee Big Ang's famous Staten Island mural is no more, but the late "Mob Wives" star's sister is vowing to find a new place for a piece of art to honor Ang. Janine Detore tells TMZ ... her landlord covered the larger-than-life tribute to Ang that had been on the side of her store -- Country Mouse Boutique -- following a dispute over some unpaid bills. Janine says the turmoil started in September when she underwent tests for some health issues .

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Just off a Houston freeway, in a strip mall with an Indian tailor and South Asian grocery store, is a small restaurant with an out-size reputation. It's called Himalaya and its chef and owner is a Houston institution. Chef Kaiser Lashkari is a large man with a bushy salt-and-pepper mustache. He's constantly in motion — greeting clients, inspecting steaming dishes carried by busy waiters, calling out to his wife overseeing the kitchen.

Today’s television landscape would look like an alien planet to visitors from 2002. Cable had only begun to hit its stride with original programming, “streaming” TV had not yet taken hold, binging an entire new series in a weekend wasn’t possible. And despite the existence of hundreds of channel options, a series focusing seriously on mental health was nowhere to be found. Then Dr. Phil McGraw came along. After several tryouts on “The Oprah Winfrey Show,” the folksy, mustached, straight talking doctor of psychology landed his own series.

The leak-to-official-release pipeline. Kim Petras is ready to feed the beast once again. On September 18, she released Problématique just three months after releasing her previous album, Feed the Beast. The storied new album was intended to be Petras’s major-label debut before it leaked in August 2022. In December 2021, prior to it leaking, she told Paper magazine that “it’s very European-themed. I’m from Europe, I grew up around Italian disco, dance, techno, German techno, there’s a whole scene.

TV Kristin Davis, famous for her role on 'Sex and the City', credits her acting career with saving her life. Published on October 9, 2020 2 min read The ladies of Sex and the City may have put the Cosmo on the map, but one cast member was not drinking them. Kristin Davis, who portrayed Charlotte York on the series for six seasons, has been sober for more than 30 years. Davis, who began acting as a young adult, has been open about her journey to sobriety, and she credits her acting jobs with keeping her alive.