Travis M. Andrews – Page 5

Texas man tries in vain to save infant left in hot car by placing her in refrigerator

June 10, 2018 at 10:51 a.m.

When Michael Thedford arrived at the daycare Tuesday morning to drop off his three children, he found that the youngest, his 6-month old daughter, was a little ill and running...

NASCAR’s Mike Wallace, daughter attacked after Rascal Flatts concert in Charlotte

June 10, 2018 at 11:52 a.m.

The Rascal Flatts concert at Charlotte, N.C.'s PNC Pavilion had just let out, two days before Father's Day. Amid the flood of fans rushing to their cars was 57-year-old NASCAR...

Nick Cave has been singing about mortality for decades, and he's really good at it. Whether the narratives are biblical or pulpy, the victims innocents or death row convicts, the circumstances comprehensible or cruelly random, Cave's songs are on intimate terms with the infinite ways a life can be extinguished. And yet, "Skeleton Tree", his latest album with his estimable band, the Bad Seeds, is a relatively concise song cycle shadowed by death that feels different than all the rest. <a href="http://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/music/kot/sc-music-nick-cave-skeleton-tree-ent-0916-20160916-column.html" target="_blank">Read the full review.</a>

‘Alt-right’ white supremacists have chosen Taylor Swift as their ‘Aryan goddess’ icon

June 10, 2018 at 12:53 p.m.

Taylor Swift is not a white supremacist. She doesn't identify as a Neo-Nazi, and there is no evidence to suggest that, behind closed doors, she might. That hasn't stopped some...

‘Tetris the Movie’: Coming soon to a theater near you

June 10, 2018 at 4:28 p.m.

Know how everyone always said Hollywood should make a movie based on "Tetris," the 1984 video game in which players fit differently shaped blocks into one another? Oh, wait -...

Clownfish swim through an anemone near Dobu Island, Papua New Guinea, on Jan. 18, 2013.

Real clownfish suffered after ‘Finding Nemo,’ so ‘Finding Dory’ raises concerns

August 21, 2019 at 6:21 p.m.

Finding the message of many films can be challenging, but the moral of "Finding Nemo" seems pretty straightforward: Leave fish in the ocean, where they belong.In the children's movie, the...

Female meteorologist in L.A. given sweater on air to cover skin, Twitter erupts

August 21, 2019 at 6:19 p.m.

A Los Angeles television station has come under fire after a male anchor handed his female colleague a cardigan so she could cover her bare shoulders.It happened during the 8...

This canned Canadian air goes for $32 a canister

June 10, 2018 at 3:35 p.m.

How much should a breath of fresh air cost? Most people would likely respond to that question with an obvious answer: Nothing! Most people, though, are not Moses Lam, who...

Target CEO responds to boycott of chain over transgender bathroom policy

June 10, 2018 at 4:07 p.m.

Target CEO Brian Cornell has now spoken publicly about the backlash the company experienced after releasing a statement declaring that transgender individuals shopping at the retail giant can use whichever...

Group claims to be sending men into women’s restrooms at Target

March 27, 2019 at 7:34 p.m.

As an online petition to boycott Target continues to attract signatures, an American Family Association leader said the organization has sent men into women's bathrooms at Target.The petition, which launched...

‘A danger to wives and daughters’: Petition calls for Target boycott over transgender restroom policy

June 8, 2018 at 2:44 p.m.

An online petition by the American Family Association calling for a boycott of Target reached more than 650,000 signatures early Tuesday morning and was growing by the minute. It was...

All Stories