Category: 5. Entertainment

The time loop story, in which characters repeatedly relive the same span of time, has become synonymous with the 1993 film Groundhog Day, but the idea has much older roots. In PD Ouspensky’s 1915 novel Strange Life of Ivan Osokin, the feckless…

Our Girls: The Southport Families

8pm, BBC One
“We sent her there as a treat,” says the mother of Elsie Dot Stancombe, remembering the day in July 2024 when her daughter went to a Taylor Swift-themed dance class and didn’t come home. This…

​A scene from the staged concert production of Mozart!. The German-language musical is presented at Shanghai Culture Square from Nov 27 to Dec 14. GAO ERQIANG/CHINA DAILY

Dec 5 marks the anniversary when the great…

Chinese fashion designers bring contemporary elements with traditional aspects to young consumers hungry for modernity.

​Designers draw inspiration from classical Chinese arts, such as calligraphy, paintings and embroidery….

The Way We Are
February 21, 2026–January 30, 2028

The collection exhibition The Way We Are is presenting itself in an altered form: new works, new collections, new thematic areas. Alongside these, familiar elements appear with modified…

Sometimes the hardest thing to buy for a bookworm is a regular novel, biography or history book. For the literature connoisseur in your life, we’ve compiled a selection of bookish gift ideas that go beyond the norm.

A literary membership

The…