Category: 5. Entertainment

From Vincent van Gogh to Virginia Woolf, from Nina Simone to Amy Winehouse, the tortured-artist archetype looms large: private torment fuelling public brilliance.

But across opera, theatre, film and television, a growing movement is pushing back…

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New York is a city of sushi fanatics, and omakase – which translates literally as “I’ll leave it up to you” –…

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When I think about summer reading, I think about relaxing with an easy page-turner … but I also think about finally having the headspace for the more complex,…

The Critics Choice Awards are off and running with Australians Sarah Snook and Jacob Elordi taking out awards. 

Snook won Best Actress in a Limited Series or Movie Made for Television with All Her Fault.

Snook had not prepared a speech, saying her…

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“In Greenland, one discovers, as though for the first time, what beauty is,” Rockwell Kent wrote in 1935. “God must forgive me,” he…

RED ROCK, Arizona — On Jan. 3, 2026, the 655th Quartermaster Detachment (Petroleum) cased its colors during a small, intimate farewell ceremony at the Arizona National Guard Center near Red Rock, Arizona, ahead of the unit’s…

After two years of destabilisation due to industry strikes, the US road to the Oscars is back in full swing with today’s Critics Choice Awards ceremony.

In their 31st year, the annual awards — led by Warner Bros, soon to be acquired by Netflix…