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Forbes
02-05-2025
- Sport
- Forbes
What Time Is 2025 Kentucky Derby? How To Watch On Free TV And Streaming
The 2025 Kentucky Derby — the first stop on the road to the Triple Crown — is this weekend. Where you can watch and stream the event? Per usual, the 151st Kentucky Derby will take place at Churchill Downs in Louisville, Ky. Nineteen 3-year-old horses are competing in this year's event, which has a purse of $5 million. Two of the horses — Grande and Rodriguez — were scratched from the race earlier on Friday. As for the weather for the Derby, Kentucky television station WLKY is forecasting a 'rather cloudy' day on Saturday with occasional showers and a few storms possible. "It does not look like a washout for Derby, but definitely bring the poncho or a raincoat as we will have periods of rain,' WLKY reported on Friday. 'It also looks a little cooler for Derby as temperatures will hold in the 60s for most of the day.' Those not attending the Kentucky Derby in person will have options to watch the race for free on broadcast on NBC-TV and streaming on NBC Universal's Peacock subscription service. The 2025 Kentucky Derby can also be streamed on and the NBC Sports app on mobile. Live coverage of the 2025 Kentucky Derby begins at 2:30 p.m. ET/11:30 PT. The post time for the 2025 Kentucky Derby is set for 6:57 p.m. ET/3:57 p.m. PT. The post positions for the 151st Kentucky Derby were posted on the Derby's official X account on Friday, which can also be seen below. The Kentucky Derby, also known as the Run for the Roses, has only produced 13 horses that have gone on to win the Triple Crown. The winner of the 2025 Kentucky Derby will need to win the Preakness Stakes on Saturday, May 17, at the Pimlico Race Course in Baltimore, Md., and the Belmont Stakes on Saturday, June 7, at the Saratoga Race Course in Sartoga Springs, N.Y. To date, there have only been 13 horses in history to win the Triple Crown, with the last being in 2018 with Justify. Prior to Justify's feature, the Triple Crown was won by Sir Barton (1919), Gallant Fox (1930), Omaha (1935), War Admiral (1937), Whirlaway (1941), Count Fleet (1943), Assault (1946), Citation (1948), Secretariat (1973), Seattle Slew (1977), Affirmed (1978) and American Pharoah (2015). The post time for the 2025 Kentucky Derby is set for 6:57 p.m. ET/3:57 p.m. PT and the race will be broadcast on NBC-TV and stream on Peacock, and the NBC Sports app. Live coverage begins on NBC-TV and its streaming platforms begins at 2:30 p.m. ET/11:30 PT. All of the past winners of the event are listed on the Kentucky Derby website.
Winnipeg Free Press
26-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Winnipeg Free Press
Vignettes capture poignant cast of Viennese café
The Café with No Name is a slender novel about the everyday lives of the kinds of simple people who are usually overlooked, scorned or forgotten, and not just in fiction. Set in a nondescript café in a rundown section of Vienna during the city's reconstruction period (1966-76), Robert Seethaler's story is warm, sympathetic and real. He makes these people's lives matter. Like Cheers, the renowned NBC-TV sitcom of the '80s, The Café with No Name is about the 'found family' that meets there. But it's more situation dramedy than a gag-oriented story that goes for big laughs and put-downs. It can be amusing, but mostly it focuses on the poignant micro-dramas of ordinary lives that most of us can easily relate to. Its main character, Robert Simon, is a thirty-something handyman who takes over an abandoned café, a dream he's had since he was an orphan. For the most part, he's a hard-working man, accepting and contented with his lot in life. Simon (as he's called by the author throughout the novel) lives uneventfully in a single room in a house with a reclusive war widow. The Cafe With No Name His closest friend is a jolly butcher from a stall in the nearby marketplace who gets Simon to hire a waitress, Mila, a small-town girl who's been unexpectedly let go by a textile factory closed by competition from China. Other regulars at the café include Blaha, a man with a glass eye he regularly removes; Rene, a small-time professional wrestler; Mischa, a struggling artist who lives with Heide, an older woman who owns a cheese shop and is fed up with his constant cheating; and Rose, a lonely woman past her prime and looking for a man, any man. No outsiders impinge on these people's lives — no authorities, no politicians, no middle- or upper-class interlopers. It's a closed circle. So the characters aren't vehicles for social commentary nor political satire; they simply exist to show how lives can intertwine in sometimes surprising and satisfying ways. Befitting such an approach, the novel is divided into 39 short chapters, most of which are three to five pages long. It proceeds like a series of brief linked short stories or vignettes. During Elections Get campaign news, insight, analysis and commentary delivered to your inbox during Canada's 2025 election. The vignettes begin and develop in often unexpected ways. Near the book's end, for instance, a chapter begins with a response to an unspoken statement: ''I think it's a terrific idea,' the butcher said, stabbing his knife into the chopping block.' The rest of the chapter is a conversation about the butcher's wife being pregnant again and how it's recharged his love for his wife. This prompts Simon to think of women in his life: his own mother, the widow he boards with and the strange woman he loved briefly and thankfully lost. The 'terrific idea' — a party — is returned to at the end of the chapter in a marvelous display of Seethaler's easy narrative skill. What sustains this chapter, and indeed the entire novel, is Seethaler's gift for convincing dialogue. His characters talk as if he's somewhere close at hand, listening intently and carefully transcribing what they say. In fact, six chapters are just dialogue, amusing exchanges between unattributed speakers that run together in one long paragraph. It's like we the readers are eavesdropping on actual lives. In a world of oversized action heroes, amped-up plots and raging social media, Robert Seethaler's highly-regarded novels (including 2017's A Whole Life, which was a finalist for the Booker Prize) are warm retreats into truer personal interconnections. The Café with No Name will greatly appeal to anyone looking for a realistic account of everyday human relations. Gene Walz is a Winnipeg writer and editor.
