Category: 5. Entertainment

  • House of Dynamite writer ‘respectfully disagrees’ with Pentagon’s complaints about nuclear missile thriller | Film

    House of Dynamite writer ‘respectfully disagrees’ with Pentagon’s complaints about nuclear missile thriller | Film

    Noah Oppenheim, the writer of Kathryn Bigelow’s nuclear-missile thriller House of Dynamite has responded to complaints from the Pentagon over the accuracy of its depiction of the US’s defence systems, saying he “respectfully disagree[s]”.

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  • The Strad News – Violist Karolina Errera secures two new roles

    The Strad News – Violist Karolina Errera secures two new roles

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    Violist Karolina Errera has announced that she has secured two positions: principal viola of the Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra and viola lecturer at the Barenboim-Said Foundation in Seville, where she joins the…

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  • Paul Gauguin’s final self portrait—previously decried as fake—is authentic, museum concludes – The Art Newspaper

    Paul Gauguin’s final self portrait—previously decried as fake—is authentic, museum concludes – The Art Newspaper

    Paul Gauguin’s last self-portrait—recently argued to be a fake—is authentic, according to new research at the Kunstmuseum Basel. However, part of the face was retouched after the artist’s death.

    The museum’s extensive investigation began…

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  • Singer Raye says lost songbooks found ahead of album two

    Singer Raye says lost songbooks found ahead of album two

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    PA Raye ahead of her half time performance during the NFL International match at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium earlier this monthPA

    Singer Raye has said her songbooks stolen last year when her car was broken into, meaning her album two plans had to be put on hold, have been found.

    The star had been working on the follow-up to her multi-Brit…

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  • A listener’s DIY project helps others deal with high medical bills

    A listener’s DIY project helps others deal with high medical bills

    In April, Thomas Sanford, a medical student who regularly listens to “An Arm and a Leg,” set out to create a resource he could easily share with patients to help them deal with unaffordable medical bills.

    In this mini-episode, host Dan Weissmann…

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  • Netflix and Amazon Prime are using AI algorithms that hide content from some users, media executive says

    Netflix and Amazon Prime are using AI algorithms that hide content from some users, media executive says

    Artificial intelligence may be changing how content is made, but its bigger impact on media is how the technology is altering who is able to access that content, one media executive said.

    Jyoti Deshpande, a film producer and president of media…

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  • The Stack launches with inspiration and choice for readers through curated book lists

    The Stack launches with inspiration and choice for readers through curated book lists

    With 200,000 books published a year in the UK, it can feel impossible to know which books are
    worth your time – and to resist the lure of the shiny and new. The Stack podcast is launching on 28th
    October to tackle these challenges, with…

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  • Kéré Architecture Breaks Ground on Museum Ehrhardt Museum in Plüschow, Germany

    Kéré Architecture Breaks Ground on Museum Ehrhardt Museum in Plüschow, Germany