Last season, the Minnesota Timberwolves heard how they had no chance of beating the Phoenix Suns in their first-round series. Minnesota swept the Suns and then sent the defending NBA champion Denver Nuggets home before it eventually lost to the Dallas Mavericks in the Western Conference finals. Then, as this season’s first-round series against the…
“Storytelling is magic,” Jason Isaacs said. “It’s sleight of hand, it’s delivering a surprise ending that people don’t see coming.” Isaacs, 61, best known for playing villains in “The Patriot,” “Peter Pan” and the Harry Potter films, was speaking via video call a few days before “The White Lotus” Season 3 finale. A keen amateur…
Athena didn’t crash. But what did happen to it? Hours after the 15-foot-tall robotic spacecraft arrived at the moon’s surface, closer to the lunar south pole than any spacecraft has been, it remained unclear whether its touchdown was smooth enough to perform its intended work, or if it toppled over in the process, potentially limiting…
