Category: 5. Entertainment

Mayfair’s Shepherd Market was Maqbool Fida Husain’s favourite London haunt. India’s most fabled — and most expensive — artist often walked there from his studio on nearby Curzon Street. By the early 2000s, Husain, then in his eighties,…

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“My favourite thing to give and be given is a bare-root rose,” says Milli Proust, gardener and one half of the Sussex…

As celebrities go, few can top the anticipation that awaits a small, stout, furry individual with a button nose, wearing a blue duffel coat and a battered red hat. Paddington is the undoubted star of this festive season in London — the little…

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“I have a pet peeve about Chinese festivals,” says Amy Poon, gathering coriander and spinach into bunches in her…

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The last time I went to The Dover in Mayfair, I wasn’t celebrating a birthday, but four other people were, judging by…

A haunting 1940 self-portrait by famed Mexican artist Frida Kahlo sold Thursday for US$54.7 million and became the top-selling work by any female artist at an auction.

The painting of Kahlo asleep in a bed — titled “El sueno (La cama)” or in…

Brendan Fraser leads the cast of the new movie, “Rental Family.” He plays an actor living in Japan who is offered the opportunity to play some different kinds of roles…not on TV or in the movies…but in life.

He goes to work for a rental agency…

The release date for Kendrick Lamar‘s comedy from South Park creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone has been pushed back yet again.

The film’s release date has been delayed, The Hollywood Reporter has confirmed, after already being…

Indian entertainment platform PTC Punjabi has partnered with Australian production company Temple to co-present three Punjabi-language feature films under the Australia-India Audiovisual Co-Production Treaty, marking one of the largest…

Two-time Oscar winner Kevin Spacey said he “literally” has no “home,” and is living out of his suitcase in various hotels and Airbnbs while working as a lounge singer in Cyprus. The embattled actor, whose work in Hollywood has dried up…