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Statues are problematic. We throw them up for the great and the good, but they all too easily paper over the bad traits and dirty bibs from which none of us are immune. These are the very things that make the person who is being venerated in bronze, a human rather than a symbol, and if we are able to relate to them on that level, then it only makes their accomplishments all the more incredible. I thought a lot about monuments watching this documentary portrait of Dublin rock icon Phil Lynott by Emer Reynolds. It made me think just how effectively they can communicate when executed with imagi...

At 5-foot-2, a college guard puts up numbers that overshadow his height Rick Maese, The Washington Post Dec. 24, 2020 FacebookTwitterEmail UMBC guard Darnell Rogers watches shoot-around with teammates before a game last season against St. Francis (Pa.).photo for The Washington Post by Terrance Williams. CATONSVILLE, Md. - When the huddle breaks, the players scatter, and the one in the center is finally visible. Darnell Rogers stands only chest-high to his teammates, a full head shorter than his head coach. By now, he's not much of a basketball oddity, though. Opposing players know if they ta...

People often talk about the impact Irish musicians have had on our national self-confidence over the years, whether it’s U2’s dragon-slaying in America, Enya’s sonic ubiquity in the late 1980s, or The Boomtown Rats’ first appearance on Top of the Pops. But before any of them, and long before the dreaded boy bands, there was Philo. From the moment Thin Lizzy first appeared on Top of the Pops in 1973 having scored an unlikely hit with the traditional song Whiskey in the Jar, Phil Lynott looked and sounded like a megastar. The boy from Crumlin in Dublin hit the ground running, grabbing...

The March 17 murder of eight people, six of whom were women of Asian descent, in three Atlanta-area spas shocked the nation, as we witnessed another instance of devastating, targeted violence. And unfortunately, acts of racism, discrimination and violence against Asians and Asian Americans have been on a steady rise for the last year, fueled […] Songwriter and lead guitarist of Grammy Award-winning band Hootie & the Blowfish Mark Bryan dropped a new solo album Midlife Priceless last Friday. This record is Bryan’s fourth solo album, though it’s been three years since his last album hit t...

>> actually it's a tax. wait until you hear who gets hit the hardest. it's not the rich. "fox & friends" starts right now. >> good morning, everyone. hope you had a fantastic weekend. we have eric sitting in today for steve. welcome. >> thank you. good to be here. >> this means you're up so early, you could nod off during "the five" today, are you concerned about that? >> i won't nod off. i'll be here, i'll be there. lot of news today. >> there is. dana perino will be here a little later to tell us what you missed. your ex-teammate. let's bring you up to speed with some headlines for...