For nearly two decades, Adrian Maclin has changed lives inside and outside of his classroom. Maclin, a music teacher at Cordova High School in Memphis, Tennessee, is the winner of the 2025 Music Educator Award, which is presented by the Recording Academy and the Grammy Museum. “We don’t refer to ourselves as a choir class,”…
A JetBlue Airways plane prepares to take off from the Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport on January 31, 2024 in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Joe Raedle | Getty Images JetBlue Airways shares fell more than 25% on Tuesday and are on track for the biggest one-day percentage loss since the company went public more than two decades…
Kelly Ortberg speaks at the 14th annual U.S. Chamber Of Commerce Foundation Aviation Summit in downtown Washington, D.C. Kris Tripplaar | SIPPL Sipa USA | AP Boeing CEO Kelly Ortberg on Tuesday laid out a recovery plan for the company as he faces investors antsy for answers after the plane-maker posted its sixth consecutive annual…
Shemar Moore recently appeared on The Jennifer Hudson Show touting the fact that he is a proud #girldad. The SWAT actor opened up on the show telling the EGOT-winner that the birth of his daughter, Frankie, “saved my life.” “[Frankie] is the reason I’m so damn happy, and my girl Jesiree [Dizon],” he said in…
Born in Annandale on November 30, 1955, Furness was raised in Melbourne and always dreamed of acting. After finishing high school, her mother urged her to get some sort of training that she could fall back on if acting didn’t work out, so Furness trained as a secretary and landed a job as an assistant…
A still from the film “Wicked.” Source: Universal Studios Universal is hoping the excitement around “Wicked” can hang around — for good. The movie studio faces a unique challenge: promote and release two build-on films just one year apart. Part one of the “Wicked” cinematic project dazzled at the box office, collecting more than $700…
Travelers walk through O’Hare International Airport in Chicago on Dec. 20, 2024. Kamil Krzaczynski | AFP | Getty Images Higher airfare is in store this year as strong demand, even during the dead of winter, and limited capacity growth prompt airlines to flex their pricing power. Fare-tracking platform Hopper this month said domestic “good deal”…
Shares of Netflix soared more than 14% Tuesday after the company posted fourth-quarter results that beat on the top and bottom lines. The company surpassed 300 million paid memberships during the quarter, adding a record 19 million subscribers. Netflix said the growth was driven by its content slate, improved product and typical fourth-quarter seasonality. The…
When you see a painting by Tamara de Lempicka, it’s hard to resist leaning in for a closer look. “It’s just exquisite,” said Furio Rinaldi, one of the curators of the first-ever Lempicka retrospective in the United States. “You don’t see the brush strokes. They are just polished and incredibly deliberate. It’s such a clean…
A Spirit Airlines plane at New York’s LaGuardia Airport Leslie Josephs/CNBC Spirit Airlines is cutting about 200 jobs across the company as the struggling budget carrier seeks to reduce costs after it filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in November. “These decisions were not made lightly, as we know they impact professional and personal lives,”…
