John Powers

Correspondent at The Boston Globe

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'Jane Austen Wrecked My Life' doesn't live up to its namesake

3 days ago | nhpr.org | John Powers

On the stock exchange of literary acclaim, reputations rise, fall, go bust and sometimes rise again. These days, few writers have a higher valuation than Jane Austen, who's gone from being merely a great novelist to becoming a marketable brand. Beyond the scads of adaptations, we've had movies titled Austenland and The Jane Austen Book Club, Anne Hathaway playing the young Jane, and Mr. Darcys popping up everywhere from Bridget Jones' Diary to the Hallmark Channel's Mr. Darcy Trilogy.
Mission: Impossible's overblown 'Final Reckoning' still thrills

2 weeks ago | nhpr.org | John Powers

Pop culture has long had a tendency toward bloat. The catchy two-minute singles of the 1950s gave way to the laborious concept albums of the '60s. The slim, mind-blowing novels of Philip K. Dick and J.G. Ballard led to the doorstops of Stephen King and Neal Stephenson. And then there's Mission Impossible, which began in 1966 as a tautly unpretentious hour-long TV series with a fantastic theme by Lalo Schifrin.
Defending Boston Marathon champions Hellen Obiri and Sisay Lemma will have plenty of runners hot on their heels Monday - The Boston Globe

1 month ago | bostonglobe.com | John Powers

Last year, Hellen Obiri came here to defend her crown and lock in a place on Kenya’s team for the Paris Olympics, where she won the bronze medal. This time, she’ll be chasing a bit of history at Monday’s 129th Boston Marathon, bidding to become only the third woman in the modern era and first from her country to claim three consecutive titles.
The Boston Marathon was a far different race when Bill Rodgers shocked himself and the racing world by winning in 1975 - The Boston Globe

1 month ago | bostonglobe.com | John Powers

“This is absurd,” he marveled after winning by two minutes and posting a time of 2 hours, 9 minutes, 55 seconds, smashing the mark set by Ron Hill by 35 seconds — at the time the fifth-fastest marathon ever run. “I can’t run that fast.”For his labors, Will Rodgers, as the next day’s headlines called him, got the customary amateur reward — a laurel wreath, a medal, and a bowl of canned beef stew.
Did elite runners from other countries have any trouble obtaining visas in order to compete in the Boston Marathon? - The Boston Globe

1 month ago | bostonglobe.com | John Powers

Back when the Boston Marathon field was composed of locals, New Yorkers, and Canadians, none of the contestants even needed a passport. But since the world’s most fabled footrace went truly global with the arrival of the Africans in 1988, getting to the starting line often requires elite athletes to obtain a visa. Ordinarily it’s a matter of paperwork and patience.
Jon Hamm puts a twist on his Don Draper swagger in 'Your Friends & Neighbors'

1 month ago | nhpr.org | John Powers

In the decades after World War II, America was flooded with novels, movies and hot-button studies pondering the nature of suburbia — its comfort and consumerism, its safety and soullessness. Nobody explored these themes any better than John Cheever, whose elegantly devastating stories captured suburban life in both its sunlit splendor and shadowy desolation.
A renaissance across the board for US in World Figure Skating Championships - The Boston Globe

2 months ago | bostonglobe.com | John Powers

For four days last week the International Skating Union, which oversees this sport of kissing, crying, and quads, brought its new sound-and-light show to TD Garden where the 21st-century technology was ideal for pumping up the volume. Not that these World Championships needed an amplifier. The historic performance of the home side blew the roof off the building day and night.
Will Ilia Malinin attempt seven quadruple jumps in Saturday’s free skate?

2 months ago | bostonglobe.com | John Powers

If this were a prize fight — and given the International Skating Union’s new “fan engagement” emphasis on whirling lights and maximum decibels it could be — Saturday night’s men’s free skate could be hyped as Ice War: The Rematch. That victory restored the crown to the Americans, ending Shoma Uno’s two-year reign after Nathan Chen, Malinin’s countryman, had claimed three in a row. For decades the men’s side of the sport has featured a clash of shifting superpowers.
Ilia Malinin ‘just went with the flow’ in his soaring men’s short program at World Figure Skating Championships - The Boston Globe

2 months ago | bostonglobe.com | John Powers

“Let’s get this party started!” That was Ilia Malinin’s message to the ticketholders on the Hub Vision screen before he took the ice at TD Garden on Thursday afternoon. The men’s short program at the World Figure Skating Championships had been underway for five and a half hours and more than three dozen competitors already had skated. But the party couldn’t truly start until the American world champion turned up to launch his Flying Circus, which is unlike anything the sport ever has seen.
With ban on Russians, World Figure Skating Championships less predictable, more intriguing – and open to a new face - The Boston Globe

2 months ago | bostonglobe.com | John Powers

You probably haven’t heard of Adeliia Petrosian but from Volgograd to Vladivostok she’s renowned as the Motherland’s reigning ice queen. Petrosian, a 17-year-old Muscovite who’s barely tall enough to peer over the boards, has won the last two Russian titles. In an ordinary year – remember those? – Petrosian would have been at TD Garden on Wednesday afternoon competing in the women’s short program at the World Figure Skating Championships.

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