The Red Sea International Film Festival kicked off with the premiere of the film, Giant, a British-Yemeni boxing biopic directed by Rowan Athale, starring Amir El-Masry as Prince Naseem Hamed and Pierce Brosnan as his trainer, Brendan…
Category: 5. Entertainment
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I was enthralled by Crime and Punishment at 14. Rereading it after 60 years, I’m still awed
The old woman who once sliced our front garden hose with a knife has just walked past our home without pausing. Not long after the hose incident I confronted her with what she had done and she denied ever walking along our street, let alone…
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Tommy Hilfiger Honored with Lifetime Achievement Award at the 2025 Footwear News Achievement Awards
At the 39th Annual Footwear News Achievement Awards (FNAA), Mr. Tommy Hilfiger received the Lifetime Achievement Award, recognizing more than 40 years of shaping global fashion and defining modern American style. The FNAAs are the industry’s…
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‘A joyous and emotional journey’: immersive exhibition charts Coventry’s south Asian heritage | Art
As you enter the living room at the Stories That Made Us exhibition, a stereo plays the Hindi anthem Yeh Dosti Hum Nahi Todenge. It is a ballad celebrating friendship and love from the epic film Sholay. Beside the stereo sits a bottle of Johnnie…
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Four countries to boycott Eurovision 2026 as Israel cleared to compete | Eurovision
Ireland, Spain, Slovenia and the Netherlands will boycott next year’s Eurovision after Israel was given the all-clear to compete in the 2026 song contest despite calls by several participating broadcasters for its exclusion over the war in…
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Chuck Palahniuk’s ‘Survivor’ Being Adapted For Film By Daniel Brown
EXCLUSIVE: Daniel Brown (Your Lucky Day) wrote and is gearing up to direct a feature adaptation of Survivor, the satirical 1999 novel from Fight Club‘s Chuck Palahniuk.
Set to shoot in Auckland, New Zealand in early 2026, the…
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Inside The Stahl House: Exclusive Tour
It’s not every day Rambling gets treated like a prospective eight-figure homebuyer, but when the Stahl House — yes, that Stahl House, Case Study House #22 — hit the market last month for $25 million, the listing agent offered a private…
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Jane Birt obituary | Art
My mother-in-law, Jane Birt, who has died of cancer aged 82, was an Anglo-American artist whose work was shown at the Portico Gallery, Manchester, Leighton House in London, the Piers Feetham Gallery and the Mall Galleries.
She worked in…
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Currents of Memory: The Oceanic Worlds of “Stray Dog Hydrophobia”
Earlier this month, LACMA hosted a special outdoor screening of Stray Dog Hydrophobia with a live performance, where Art + Technology Lab grant recipients Patty Chang and David Kelley presented their multidisciplinary film accompanied by a new…
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Margaretta D’Arcy obituary | Theatre
Political activism, protest, dissent and conflict with the theatrical establishment were not acquired through the life experience of the writer and dramatist Margaretta D’Arcy, who has died aged 91.
They were genetically formed, deep in her…
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