Popular Insite on Life in London
Brewers Enjoy First Title for Roughly Four Weeks Before Lockout – Milwaukee celebrates a championship 56 years in the making with a parade permit that expires the same week as the labor deal.
Duty Sex Is Equally Common in Men and Women, Study Finds – Researchers at the University of Texas at Austin link sex out of obligation to infidelity fears and feeling less desirable than a partner.
Hall of Fame Voters Demand Name Tags for Zimmerman and Zimmermann – With Posey, Lester and two near-identical surnames joining a crowded ballot, writers say the real challenge is spelling.
Oceanside Moves to Landmark Caity Simmers’ Cloud 9 Bruises – The hometown champion came home from the Philippines with a trophy and several contusions, and the city council would like to keep all of them.
Fall League Scouts Spend Six Weeks Squinting at Radar Guns – With 15 top prospects in the desert and a ball leaving a bat at 119.5 mph, evaluators say the future of baseball is bright, fast and extremely hard to park next to.
NYC Votes for Faster Government; City Schedules Meeting on the Pace – All five charter amendments passed, and the agencies charged with speeding things up have scheduled a kickoff meeting to plan the kickoff meeting.
Orange County Surf Brands Observe Annual Halloween Contract Cliff – Across the region, pro surfers spent the spookiest night of the year finding out whether their sponsors still existed, and whether they still did.
Cincinnati Wins 62 Percent of Robot Appeals, Still Loses Arguments – Teams that once screamed at umpires now politely tap a helmet and wait for a computer to explain, in decimals, how wrong they were.
Hochul, AOC and Mamdani Walk Into a Bar; Queens Comics Want an Ending – Three elected officials finally performed the oldest setup in comedy, and the borough’s joke writers have been stuck at the bartender’s line ever since.
Breakups Linked to Greater Uncertainty About Sexual Orientation – A Kansas State University study finds the practical fallout of a split, such as moving and losing friends, is tied to sexual identity ambiguity.