Poulin, Desbiens come up big as Victoire edge Frost in SO

Marie-Philip Poulin scored the only goal of the shootout as the Montreal Victoire extended their lead atop the Professional Women’s Hockey League with a 2-1 win over the Minnesota Frost on Tuesday night at Place Bell. With the win, Montreal’s lead in first place is now nine points over the second-place Toronto Sceptres with 10 … Read more

From dad Donovan’s rejection to a toxic relationship with Anthony Kiedis, Gen X it girl Ione Skye bares all

On the Shelf Say Everything By Ione SkyeGallery Books: 304 pages, $30If you buy books linked on our site, The Times may earn a commission from Bookshop.orgwhose fees support independent bookstores. “I often fantasized that one day my dad would stumble across my face on a magazine cover and be overcome with regret for not … Read more

Review: Indie survivor Ed Burns returns with the bland ‘Millers in Marriage’

Thirty years after his breakout as a Sundance darling with “The Brothers McMullen,” Edward Burns may have faded from view as an indie troubadour of middle-class mores, family fractures and romantic entanglements. But the writer-director-star is still wholly committed to his East Coast brand of beige, affable, lightly weathered angst, in which nobody exhibits too … Read more

PBS and NPR on edge over FCC letter and Trump budget scrutiny

Forty years ago, the Reagan administration told PBS to find ways to increase funding for public television outside of taxpayer dollars. It did. PBS’ response to the challenge was to enhance the way it acknowledged sponsors. Instead of merely running a company logo before its programming, PBS let corporate underwriters place messages that looked more … Read more