Category: 5. Entertainment

The BBC has acquired Dustfall, a gripping new six-part crime drama series starring internationally renowned actor Anna Torv (The Newsreader, Territory), for BBC iPlayer and BBC One from Federation International.

Based on the novel The Unbelieved…

In 2019, leaked documents showed that TikTok instructed moderators to suppress content from users who were “ugly”, poor, disabled or LGBTQ+ because this material created a “less fancy and appealing” environment. At the time, TikTok said the…

NEW YORK — A 1940 self-portrait by famed Mexican artist Frida Kahlo of her asleep in a bed could make history Thursday when it goes on sale by Sotheby’s in New York.

With an estimated price of $40 million to $60 million, “El sueño (La…

Entrants from all genres – and even songwriting duos – submitted original tracks online, echoing Nashville’s open-door approach to creativity. From there, a panel of industry heavyweights – including platinum-selling artist Breland, Whiskey Jam…

This is a new series on All Songs Considered, hosted by NPR Music critic Ann Powers and editor Daoud Tyler-Ameen. Most of what you hear on All Songs is focused on new music, but now, every other Thursday, Ann and Daoud will pick an old…

Last week in the comments, someone dared raise the ancient philosophical conundrum: when we say “the first line of a play”, do we mean the first words spoken by a character, or do the stage directions count? The Thursday quiz condemns such…