Category: 5. Entertainment

In the world of child prodigies, novelists are the rarest breed. Barbara Newhall Follett, born in Hanover, N.H., in 1914, fit the bill. By the time she was 9 years-old she had completed her first novel, a subsequent draft of which was…

Fall always feels like the perfect moment to venture over to the dark side. Case in point: Ariana Grande, who revealed today that she’s swapped the icy-blonde hair she adopted for her role as Glinda in the Oscar-winning Wicked, for a warm,…

When Sir Tom Jones struck gold in 1965 with his first number one, It’s Not Unusual, his father was still working down the coal mines of the Rhondda Valley.

Known as “the miner’s son from Pontypridd”, Jones’s life had moved far from the working…

Daniel Radcliffe is set to star in the Broadway premiere of Every Brilliant Thing, the hit one-person play that deals movingly with depression. The actor, who won a Tony award last year for his performance in the Stephen Sondheim revival Merrily…

Cameras have started rolling on Andrew Haigh’s latest feature, A Long Winter, and Ebon Moss-Bachrach and Caitriona Balfe have been added to the cast. 

The film is currently shooting in Alberta, Canada. Written by Haigh, the script is an…

Stella Donnelly didn’t want to write songs about a friend who broke her heart. But any time the Welsh-Australian singer-songwriter tried to channel anything else into her lyrics, the hurt was always there on the surface.

We have a language for…