Новости за 17.08.2016

Q Our class will converge on Charleston for our 30-year reunion: We booked Magnolias for our Saturday night dinner, but just realized that it is too chichi and expensive for a bunch of 55- to 60-year-old kids. Could you suggest some venues that might be suitable for our group? Considerations are budget; noise (we need to catch up and perhaps some...

Karim Elkady lives in Summerville.

Chefs asked to contribute this project were invited to submit a current recipe that "captures Charleston dining in 2016." If you’ve been following along, you’ll recall The Watch supplied a falafel recipe and Leon’s provided a black-eyed pea recipe. Clearly, falafel and black-eyed peas are where it’s at...

Spiked shakes

You don’t need a weathervane to know which way the wind blows, but it sure doesn’t hurt to have a frozen drink maker. When Home Team BBQ opened its downtown location, one of the most heralded menu items was a negroni slushy. But the drink machine can only handle two cocktails at a time, and the negroni, formerly the height of...

"Do you know what every dark-skin girl thinks when she sees only light-skin girls in magazines?" Missy Vaughn (Teyonah Parris) asked on "Survivor’s Remorse" on Sunday night. "They think their dark skin has made them invisible."

LOS ANGELES — "The Wire" and "Treme" actor Wendell Pierce’s home was destroyed by flooding in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, 11 years after his childhood home was ravaged by Hurricane Katrina.

LOS ANGELES — Johnny Depp and Amber Heard settled their contentious divorce on Tuesday and the actress withdrew her allegations that the actor had been physically abusive toward her one day before a restraining order hearing was scheduled to begin.

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Kiefer Sutherland has one of the most recognizable voices on television and film whether he’s playing agent Jack Bauer on "24" or the action hero Snake from the video game "Metal Gear Solid V."

Makes 8 skewers

ANDERSON, Alderlee Flood, 89, of Folly Beach, widow of Daniel M. Anderson, died Saturday. Arrangements by Stuhr’s West Ashley Chapel.

ACKERMAN, Randy, Shulerville

When I was a correspondent in Brazil 30 years ago inflation was rampant. It ran at an average of 707.4 percent a year from 1985 to 1989. The salaries of the poor were wiped out within hours of being paid. The country went through three currencies — cruzeiro, cruzado and cruzado novo — while I lived in Rio. The only way out...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Ellen DeGeneres says she's not racist after receiving backlash on social media for posting an edited photo of herself riding on the back of Jamaican sprinter Usain Bolt.

Бар асари боронгарии шадид ва фаромадани сел, манзилҳои зиёди шаҳрвандон дар Исфара осеб дида ва зерсохторҳои шаҳр ба мушкил рӯбарӯ шуданд ва хатҳои интиқоли барқ осеб диданд. (Аксҳо аз сафҳаи "Фейсбук"-и Иқбол Тешаев.

A "gutsy" move by a rising Mexican drug cartel to abduct a son of imprisoned drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman is raising alarms of a possible wave of bloodshed as it challenges his Sinaloa Cartel.

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper are starring in a remake of "A Star is Born."

Music icon Ogie Alcasid has been in the industry for decades now but he has maintained his youthful pogi looks. (May pinapahid kaya siya sa fez?!)

Over 150 biler er satt i brann i Malmö og flere andre svenske byer siden i sommer. Talet er høgare enn under opptøyene i Malbö-bydelen Rosengård i 2009, og vekker uro.

HAVANA (AFP) - Madonna celebrated her 58th birthday Tuesday in Havana, dancing to Cuban beats during a night on the town and drawing crowds as she toured the city.

Singing icons the New Minstrels and the Circus Band headline “See You In September” on Sept. 2 at The Theatre of the Solaire Resorts and Casino.

Fire ripped through the second deck of a docked tourist cruise boat under repair at Lake Tahoe on Tuesday, severely damaging the popular paddle wheeler and injuring two workers on board before crews extinguished the flames that sent a plume of black smoke high above the Sierra waters.

Pokemon trainers who were walking along Bonifacio High Street got lucky because not only did they catch several pocket monsters in the area, they also caught a glimpse of international popstar, 2NE1’s Sandara Park!

Madonna is the latest celebrity to visit Cuba, dancing in a restaurant for her birthday and touring Havana with her family and friends.

NEW YORK (AP) — E! network is canceling "I Am Cait" after two seasons.