Brooklyn Dodgers great Gil Hodges shaves a new bat in October 1952. Former Dodgers slugger Gil Hodges, who won championships as a player in Brooklyn and Los Angeles and managed the New York Mets to the 1969 World Series title, was one of four players elected to the National Baseball Hall of Fame on the Golden Days Era ballot on …
In the 18th century, Indian shores beckoned a number of European artists. A lesser known name among them was Baltazard Solvyns whose work didn’t get much attention at the time. While Hodges, Kettle and the Daniells painted the beautiful countryside and the rich and famous, Solvyns cast his gaze on the ordinary people of Bengal and created several extraordinary etchings. …
Republican Rep. Adam Kinzinger choked up when he spoke to the officers who testified about what happened that day Republican Rep. Adam Kinzinger on Wednesday described how he was overtaken by emotion at the vulnerability displayed by police officers as they recounted being attacked on Jan. 6. Aquilino Gonell of the US Capitol Police, Officer Michael Fanone of the DC …
“Sundowners” filmmakers, from left, screenwriters Anna Greenfield and Jessy Hodges and director Lisa Steen in Los Angeles on Jan. 21. “It feels like a real moment in its characters’ lives: There are no heroes or villains; things aren’t over-explained; it doesn’t tell you what to think,” explains Mike Plante, Sundance’s senior short film programmer. FULL COVERAGE: 2019 Sundance Film Festival …
