Artist Bill Walker is one of those guys who always seems to be in the right place at the right time. Having met Phil Lesh, the Grateful Dead bassist and avant-garde classical composer, as a student at Nevada Southern University (now the…
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‘Endless Cookie’ Review: An Animated Family History – The New York Times
- ‘Endless Cookie’ Review: An Animated Family History The New York Times
- Inside ‘Endless Cookie,’ a Surreal, Award-Winning Animated Doc Cartoon Brew
- Endless Cookie (2025) Documentary Review: Trippy, Imaginative, and Heartwarming, Often in the…
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Watch: Eurovision 2026 — the sound of music? Not for everyone
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Oh, the Eurovision. One would say it’s a celebration of music that unites all of Europe. And, for…
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Closure of Mid Essex long Covid service criticised by charities
Nikki FoxEast of England health correspondent
PA MediaA mobile bus used to be one of the support services offered to patients with long Covid Long Covid patients say they are being “thrown under the bus” after the decision to close Mid and South…
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Peng Liyuan, Brigitte Macron visit Beijing People’s Art Theatre-Xinhua
BEIJING, Dec. 4 (Xinhua) — Peng Liyuan, wife of Chinese President Xi Jinping, and Brigitte Macron, wife of French President Emmanuel Macron, visited the Beijing People’s Art Theatre (BPAT) here on Thursday.
Brigitte is accompanying the…
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Eurovision chiefs face thorny question of whether Israel should take part in the 2026 song contest
FILE – JJ, from Austria, stands on the stage with his trophy after winning the Grand Final of the 69th Eurovision Song Contest in Basel, Switzerland, May 18, 2025.
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The Abandons review — Gillian Anderson and Lena Headey face off in Netflix’s overblown western
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Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter.
What to make of The Abandons, a western so bizarrely camp and overblown that it ends up being utterly mesmerising, almost…
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Ballet star Matthew Ball on gruelling roles and getting ogled on Instagram: ‘I don’t feel precious about my body’ | Dance
In the expensive hush of a hotel bar over the road from the Royal Ballet and Opera in Covent Garden, London, Matthew Ball asks for a mint tea. I’m having a white wine; Ball’s body is clearly more of a temple than mine, although you don’t…
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National broadcasters consider Israel Eurovision participation amid boycott threats – Reuters
- National broadcasters consider Israel Eurovision participation amid boycott threats Reuters
- Eurovision faces crucial decision over Israel BBC
- Europe’s music giant hits breaking point The Express Tribune
- Today: 95th EBU General Assembly – Day One,…
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‘Embodying the zeitgeist more than ever’: German sitcom character Stromberg revived for Merz era | Germany
He’s the middle-manager who talks as if he’s the CEO, a beacon of workplace inclusivity in his own head but a bigoted chauvinist as soon as he opens his mouth. And listening to him creates a mix of familiarity and embarrassment-by-proxy that…
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