Category: 5. Entertainment

Mark Savage
Music correspondent

There was no big break-out star in the mold of Chappell
Roan, and nothing like Charli XCX’s Brat to define the summer while pushing…

Eisner: Well, it depends on how much you like it. But just make it feel like it has no memories—think of it as a piece you got at a vintage or antique store. But if you really hate them, sell it or melt it down. Or, give it to your…

The information age has made it much more difficult for artists to cultivate mystique. Gone are the days when David Bowie could seemingly arrive fully formed with Space Oddity and Hunky Dory, with most of the record-buying public unaware of his…

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The Royal Scottish National Orchestra (RSNO) has appointed Shlomy Dobrinsky to the position of associate leader. The appointment completes the front desk of the orchestra following the recent appointment of Igor…

Attia was born in 1970 in Dugny, France, and lives in Berlin and Paris. He grew up between the French capital and Bab el Oued, a suburb of Algiers in Algeria, and his Algerian-French identity and the culture and history of Europe and North…

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Moira Buffini (Faber)
In her 2024 YA debut Songlight, Buffini plunged young adult readers into a dystopian landscape inspired by John Wyndham’s The Chrysalids, with nations bitterly divided by attitudes to telepathy. The second in…

In the latest episode of The Envelope video podcast, beloved Hollywood couple Ted Danson and Mary Steenburgen discuss working together on “A Man on the Inside” and Nina Hoss explains the work that went into her gender-swapped performance in

After the eye strain, the greatest occupational hazard of being a TV critic is people asking what’s good on television. It’s a question I typically find impossible to answer on the spur of the moment, as a show will run out of my…

When Amaarae made her debut at the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival in April, she strode onto the stage with a look of fearless intent in her eyes. Clad in a militant black two-piece, towering boots and a bust-down middle part wig (which…