A group of officials, table tennis enthusiasts and community leaders recently gathered to celebrate the 53rd anniversary of Ping-Pong Diplomacy, with its legacy remaining a powerful testament to the ...

In the 1940s and '50s, New York City table tennis was a gritty subculture full of misfits, gamblers, doctors, actors, students and more. They competed, bet on the game or both at all-night spots like ...

“Drama is very important to me. I can’t undercut the drama,” notes one of the year’s most deeply carved cinematic characters, Marty Mauser, played by Timothée Chalamet with a staggering commitment to ...

Timothée Chalamet's new movie "Marty Supreme" arrives in theaters nationwide on Christmas Day. Director Josh Safdie's genre-busting sports drama is rated R. The young actor deserved an Oscar for ...

Carolina Pong founder Tripp Roche, middle, watches as table tennis players play at St. Andrews Park gym in Columbia, S.C. on Dec. 1, 2025. The game of table tennis, also known as ping pong, is taking ...

PythoC lets you use Python as a C code generator, but with more features and flexibility than Cython provides. Here’s a first look at the new C code generator for Python. Python and C share more than ...

BELFAST, Maine — On a November Saturday, the Belfast farmer's market was bustling with people. In a large back room, David Smith and Kevin Finnigan walked past playing children and shoppers taking a ...

Josh Safdie's new Timothée Chalamet-led ping-pong movie, Marty Supreme, is as intense as his past work like Uncut Gems. Even if the movies aren't necessarily comparable, it was inevitable that fans of ...

Marty Reisman was a rather notorious figure from the late 1940s in New York City’s underground table tennis (aka ping pong) world as a twentysomething shark who lured in unsuspecting amateur players ...

CHICO — Pickleball players and more flocked to the grand opening of Chico Pickle and Pong, a 52,000 square foot facility that features pickleball, ping pong and more. Annie Yoder, who owns the ...

One benefit of working on Josh Safdie's Marty Supreme was an increase in Timothée Chalamet's ping-pong skills, which have led to some “super aggressive” behavior. Speaking after a screening of Marty ...

For Tripp Roche, the most inspiring thing at his family’s restaurant isn’t the homemade pizza or lasagna. It’s the ping pong table upstairs. The hidden gem at Villa Tronco, Columbia’s oldest ...