Category: 5. Entertainment

If the rumors are true, Venus was born when Saturn struck down his father, and the remnants of that celestial upheaval fell into the sea. From the chaos-mingled foam and divine essence, love and beauty were born. Now Venus sails into…

On a mild December afternoon in 1898, two men sat beneath a large umbrella on the terrace of L’Hôtel des Bains, high on a pine-clad hill above the sleepy fishing port of La Napoule, 8km west of Cannes. Their lunch – red mullet, steak and…

ASTANA – Ayash Kabdollayeva, a craft instructor from Glubokoye village in the East Kazakhstan Region, has become the world’s top female archer just a year after taking up the sport, capturing first place at the World Cup in Ulsan, South…

Their texts quickly became the highlight of her day. A week after matching, she accidentally butt-dialled him. The missed call turned into a four-hour FaceTime conversation. A few weeks later, he told her he would be in town “scouting…

The identity of the mystery man from the main event of tonight’s Survivor Series PPV has seemingly been revealed.

The finishing moments of tonight’s PLE saw Bron Breaker and CM Punk coming face to face as a mystery figure climbed into the…

Like triple-distilled whiskey, Irish pubs appear to have timeless appeal. They are staple setting in films, books and plays, draw tourists to Ireland, replicate themselves around the world and induce social media quests for the perfect snug and…

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It is a truism that angst yields greater art than does benign contentment. Back in 1965, a youthful Pete Townshend turned…

The entire quixotic notion of alternative rock as a commercial prospect was sputtering, too. Kurt Cobain had died the previous April, but the rock charts were still peppered with bands that had credible ties to the underground. Within a year,…