When Jane Austen died in July 1817, aged just 41, she was buried in Winchester Cathedral. I moved to the city in 2025. As a lecturer in English literature, I have long researched and taught Austen’s novels, so I was keen to visit her final…
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Tinsel Eyes, Coal Liner and More
It’s party time.
Between office-wide white elephant swaps and New Year’s Eve blowout bashes, the December calendar can book up quickly, with one social obligation after another, all with the same dress code: festive. In fashion terms,…
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Netflix’s $72 billion Warner Bros deal faces skepticism over YouTube rivalry claim – Reuters
- Netflix’s $72 billion Warner Bros deal faces skepticism over YouTube rivalry claim Reuters
- Netflix to Acquire Warner Bros. Following the Separation of Discovery Global for a Total Enterprise Value of $82.7 Billion (Equity Value of $72.0…
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Flavoured condoms, 120 turkeys and a Free Marlon Dingle poster: the weird and wonderful work making the film industry green | Film
It’s two days before Thanksgiving and Hillary Cohen and Samantha Luu are trying to figure out how they’re going to cook 120 turkeys with limited oven space in their food warehouse in downtown LA. “We’re going to have to do a bit of…
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Frank Gehry remembered, Serpentine and FLAG Art Foundation prize, Joan Semmel—podcast – The Art Newspaper
Frank Gehry, the architect behind the Guggenheim Bilbao, Geffen Contemporary at MoCA, Los Angeles, and the Fondation Louis Vuitton in Paris, among other museums and art spaces, died last Friday at his home in Santa Monica, California. He was 96….
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Hollywood director found guilty of scamming Netflix out of $11m for phantom show | US television
A Hollywood director was convicted Thursday on charges that he scammed Netflix out of $11m for a show that never materialized, while he instead used the cash for lavish purchases that included several Rolls-Royces, a Ferrari and about $1m in…
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Lombard Odier wins prestigious marketing Effie Award for “Rethinking Through the Noise” campaign
Lombard Odier is proud to have earned a Bronze Effie Award at the 2025 Effie Awards Europe, a globally recognised symbol of marketing effectiveness. This honour celebrates the campaign Rethinking Through the Noise, an idea born from our rethink…
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JG Neukomm Architecture layers eras of history in The Suffolk
In New York’s Lower East Side, one can indulge in the arts in its many upper-echelon galleries or hit the clubs with the twenty-somethings, eat the greasiest food imaginable or belly up to a Michelin-starred restaurant. The Lower…
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Pop art, folk festivals and grape crushing: Australian summer events worth travelling for | Australia holidays
New South Wales
Bundanon, once the home of painter Arthur Boyd, is hosting a show that casts an overdue spotlight on the women artists spanning five generations of the Boyd family. Photograph: Zan Wimberley Icons of Pop Art: Warhol and…
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Big tech’s ‘elite victim complex’
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