Glory

One of these days, the right guy will get the right girl in a New Found Glory song. Until then, New Found Glory will keep blasting out jeeped-up pop-punk gems like this. On "Radiosurgery," its seventh album, New Found Glory flaunts the chemistry brewed over the 14 years that these five Floridians have been together. Guitarists Chad Gilbert and Steve Klein maneuver speedy melodies around singer Jordan Pundik's tales of love and loss, while drummer Cyrus Bolooki and bassist Ian Grushka propel the band.

This is why we watch sports, isn't it? Kerry Wood's final (?) appearance has already become a baseball legend, a moment that's up there with Gehrig and Yaz Day, but with so much more precious importance. Here was a man who could have, maybe should have, been the best righthander since his idol Roger Clemens, in his final moment of glory, going down with the strikeout for which he is most known. And in an instant - a 95-mile-per-hour fastball moment - Wood went from what defined and meant so much to him in his career to what defines and means so much to him in life.

Music’s trouble and glory is its insubstantiality: insistently communicative yet only vaguely meaningful, powerful and fleeting all at once. The program presented last weekend by the Boston Philharmonic and conductor Benjamin Zander consistently teased the imagination with the various ways it made that elusiveness paradoxically assertive. The centerpiece was Karol Szymanowski’s Violin Concerto No. 2, written in 1933, the composer’s last major work. Szymanowski’s music has always hovered just outside the classical canon, bearing the hallmarks of cult status: rich but esoteric, vibrant yet...

Recalling glory days at Hopkinton High More than 60 years after graduating from Hopkinton High, where he was the captain of the football and baseball teams, Ted Hunt, 85, still remembers his season-by-season batting averages. "Over .300 as a freshman, over .400 as a sophomore, .564 as a junior, and over .600 my senior year," recalled Hunt, class of 1945, who will hold the distinction of being the oldest living inductee at next month's Hopkinton High Athletic Hall of Fame ceremony.

LOS ANGELES — Kevin Jarre, who wrote the screenplays for the movies “Glory’’ and “Tombstone,’’ has died. He was 56. He died of heart failure April 3 at his Santa Monica home. His research on a black Civil War regiment led him to write the 1989 movie “Glory,’’ which won three Academy Awards. His 1993 “Tombstone,’’ about the shootout at the OK Corral, got mixed reviews, but was a hit. Mr. Jarre also co-wrote “Rambo: First Blood Part II,’’ “The Devil’s Own,’’ and “The Mummy.’’ He was the adopted son of composer Maurice Jarre.

The funeral finally arrives 45 minutes into "Pride and Glory," but the movie's been preparing for it from the opening credits: Everything in this good-cop/bad-cop action drama is shrouded in gray and attended by wailing. This isn't a feel-good genre, granted, but does it have to feel this bad? When "Pride and Glory" opens, four cops are dead, apparently shot in a Bronx drug raid gone wrong. Precinct commander Francis Tierney (Noah Emmerich) assigns his brother Ray (Edward Norton)

PARIS -- Wars and weather have left few scars on Paris's Arc de Triomphe. Commissioned by Napoleon to celebrate his victories, the 15-story tower of bone-white stone stands as an eternal monument to French glory, a time when Europe trembled before this nation's might. The national mood now, as France enters the final week before next Sunday's presidential election, is far less exultant. To Roland Perrossier, whose great-great grandfather fought for Napoleon, the arch has become a symbol of decline.

This is why we watch sports, isn't it? Kerry Wood's final (?) appearance has already become a baseball legend, a moment that's up there with Gehrig and Yaz Day, but with so much more precious importance. Here was a man who could have, maybe should have, been the best righthander since his idol Roger Clemens, in his final moment of glory, going down with the strikeout for which he is most known. And in an instant - a 95-mile-per-hour fastball moment - Wood went from what defined and meant so much to him in his career to what defines and means so much to him in life.

Girls Guns and Glory is getting a boost from Chad Ochocinco . The Boston rock band has become a favorite of the new Patriot, who tweeted to his more than 2 million followers on Saturday: "Had an opportunity to hear Girls Guns n Glory perform at Toby Keith s restaurant tonight. I've played the song #UniverseBegan 73 times already. " Later in the weekend, Ochocinco tweeted: "Prius flow blasting Girls Guns n Glory song entitled Universe Began headed to Starbucks to eat dinner.

Smarty Jones's older half-sister, Adopted Daughter, posted a 1 1/2-length victory in the featured $54,925 allowance for fillies and mares, 3 years old and up, yesterday at Churchill Downs in Louisville, Ky. Adopted Daughter, ridden by Robby Albarado, covered 6 furlongs in 1:09.82 and paid $2.80, $2.40, and $2.10. Charismatic Appeal returned $6 and $2.60, and Fashion Girl paid $2.20 to show. Adopted Daughter is the 4-year-old daughter of Elusive Quality, who also sired this year's Kentucky Derby and Preakness winner.

It took a stray bit of dirt to scratch the perfection of "Cabaret," and painstaking effort to return it to cinematic glory. The restored "Cabaret," minus damage that had prevented a high-definition version, debuted Thursday at the opening of the four-day TCM Classic Film Festival. Stars Liza Minnelli, Joel Grey and Michael York were cheered by fans at the Grauman's Chinese Theatre ceremony marking the musical's 40th anniversary. Minnelli, whose turn as cabaret singer Sally Bowles captured a best actress Academy Award and cemented her young stardom, said making "Cabaret"...

The day after Harvard clinched its first NCAA Tournament bid in 66 years, members of the basketball team stood in the suddenly bright lights that success - even if it was expected this season - brings. Television cameras were in place. Reporters moved from player to player as they talked not only about a season which produced a 26-4 record, but the team's first NCAA Tournament bid since 1946. "To have all you guys here on a Wednesday, it's crazy," said senior Oliver McNally, who acknowledged he slept through some of Princeton's victory over Penn on Tuesday...

NEW YORK - What it came down to was she couldn't see herself as a spectator. Nastia Liukin was going to London for this summer's Olympics anyway, but she didn't want to be there in street clothes. "I didn't want to have these thoughts of sitting in the stands watching Team USA walk onto the floor and thinking what if," the Beijing gymnastics champion was saying yesterday on the eve of this afternoon's American Cup at Madison Square Garden. "Those two words are the scariest for me. I just never wanted to have any regrets.

Myles Dias was forced to watch Carver's season-ending 74-58 loss to Cathedral in last year's Division 4 South semifinal from the bench. Dias had suffered a concussion in a quarterfinal win over Southeastern five days prior, leaving the Crusaders minus their offensive catalyst. "Last year was my first time in the tournament and I feel like when I got my concussion, I got cut short, so I didn't get where I wanted to go," said the 5-foot-9 Dias. "This year, I have been motivated and just working as hard as I can to get to where I want to be now that the tourney is coming up. I'm more...

You have to know how the rice is prepared - and rice comes with every entree - in order to fully appreciate the complexity of dishes at Sabzi Persian Chelow Kabab. Co-owner Mehran Khosrowdad, who was born in Tehran, rinses and soaks basmati rice in salted water until the grains turn brilliant white, then cooks it until it's almost done. At that point, the rice is strained and steamed for 15 minutes. When you get the rice, the first thing you notice is its topping of bright golden grains.

I was hoping that New England Patriots coach Bill Belichick would put Tom Menino into the game. There was an opportunity, second half, free safety Eugene Wilson lying on the ground with a busted arm, a spot now open in the lineup. Menino could have ambled onto the field as if he were looking for dining room chairs placed in shoveled-out parking spaces in Brighton, mumbling in consternation, ready to attack the problem. Wouldn't it have been a sight? This would have been the final local dropkick in the pants for the disbelievers out there.

There's a comic irony underlying "The Powder and the Glory," a smart new PBS documentary about two pioneers of the cosmetics industry. During their lives, entrepreneurial giants Elizabeth Arden and Helena Rubinstein chose never to meet, even while they lived and worked in the same neighborhood. They were rivals of the first order. But here they are, stuck side by side in the same film, twin symbols of the dramatic changes in the beauty business in the 20th century. "The Powder and the Glory," which airs tonight at 10 on Channel 2, portrays two women who came from radically different backgrounds,...

If you missed the premiere of "Postcards from Onset" last summer, you can catch a free screening of the film on Thursday, Jan. 26. The local documentary chronicles Onset's colorful past and shows how the seaside village evolved from a Spiritualist summer resort to the community it is today. It features hundreds of historic postcards and photographs, as well as interviews with longtime residents and anecdotes from Onset's glory days, when it was a summertime destination for entertainers such as Duke Ellington, Ella Fitzgerald, and Benny Goodman.

Twas' the night before skiing when all across the resort, skiers were sleeping, their jackets hanging by the door. The children had been excited, and hard to put to bed. But they had to rest up for tomorrow's skiing, their parents said! As skiers dreamt about the next day's first tracks, the groomers and snowmakers loaded up their backpacks, to head out on the slopes for their long night of work. They fired up the groomers and were off with a jerk. With stars, the moon and headlamps as their only light, snowmakers went out into the cold dark night.