Jasper Juinen | Bloomberg | Getty Images Philip Hammond, U.K. chancellor of the exchequer, speaks to journalists as he arrives for an Ecofin meeting of European Union (EU) finance ministers in Luxembourg on Friday, June 16, 2017. Britain’s Finance Minister Philip Hammond has slammed the opposition Labour Party’s calls for …

Painting didn’t pay the bills, and so she ran a boardinghouse where her tenants ranged from “inanimate, mincing ninnies” to “door slammers.” The house, which is on Simcoe Street, is around the corner from the Emily Carr House, with its small rooms crammed with books, prints, old china, furniture and, …

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Coates provokes and invites argument. He’s had a rich life as a blogger, and one of the ways he’s learned — he’s not shy about noting he’s an autodidact — has been through his many followers. It’s as if he’s still carrying on the conversation in his magazine stories. As …

Photo From left, Amy Acker, Natalie Alyn Lind, Stephen Moyer and Percy Hynes White in “The Gifted.” Credit Ryan Green/Fox A relentless hunt for X-men unites a half-mutant family in a new Marvel series. And “City of Ghosts” spotlights Syrian citizen journalists who risk their lives for their hometown. What’s …

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Yet, we, as viewers, don’t recoil at these actions. We root for them because we have spent years falling in love with this crew. We trust that they have noble intentions. It doesn’t seem out of character. Simply put: We like these guys. Star Trek III The Search For Spock …

Simon Dawson | Bloomberg | Getty Images An Airbus passenger aircraft, operated by Monarch Airlines, taxis at London Gatwick airport in Crawley, U.K., on Oct. 11, 2016. U.K.’s Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) said on Monday Britain’s Monarch Airlines ceased operations with immediate effect, leaving 110,000 customers stranded overseas and about …

Things get even worse when an overweight john propositions her at the Hi-Hat and she leads him huffing and puffing up a flight of stairs at the Lionel Hotel. (To have her asked on “a date” while she’s unwinding at the bar is a nice touch, like an overworked store …

But the surprises of this ambitiously conceived, modestly realized work are pretty much over once you’ve accepted its fanciful premise. To wit: Jefferson (Michael Laurence), Dickens (Duane Boutté) and Tolstoy (Thom Sesma) have died and gone to… well, where exactly? The silver-toned room in which they have found themselves (Wilson …