Category: 5. Entertainment

Two more headline acts for a series of open-air concerts have been announced.

The Southampton Summer Sessions will be held at the city’s Guildhall Square in June 2026 with Bowling For Soup and Frank Turner and the Sleeping Souls co-headlining on…

The BBC has acquired an adaptation of Treasure & Dirt, the twisting crime novel by Scrublands writer Chris Hammer for BBC One and BBC iPlayer from Sphere Abacus. Set in a dying opal town in the middle of the desert, when a miner is found beheaded…

In 1964, the Estonian composer Arvo Pärt was suffering from a creative crisis. As he neared his 30th year, he began to doubt the value of his music. Since graduating from the Tallinn Conservatory, he had composed almost entirely in the…

Pick of the week
Left-Handed Girl

Shih-Ching Tsou is a regular collaborator of Sean Baker, the Oscar-winning director of Anora. He returns the compliment here by co-writing and editing her vibrant debut solo feature, where his interest in the least…

On a hot Saturday afternoon at Glastonbury, while many are nursing halfway-point hangovers, the Dublin garage punk quartet Sprints whip up a jubilant mosh pit with their charged tune Descartes, Irish tricolour flags bobbing above them. As summer…

A haunting 1940 self-portrait by famed Mexican artist Frida Kahlo sold Thursday for $54.7 million and became the top-selling work by any female artist at an auction.

The painting of Kahlo asleep in a bed — titled “El sueño (La cama)” or in…

TOKYO — Ryuichi Ichinokawa’s life could be right out of the movie “Rental Family” as the founder nearly two decades ago of the Heart Project business in Japan, which he bills as a surrogate attendance service complete with furnishing of…

A Strictly Come Dancing star has reportedly been arrested on suspicion of rape.

The Sun reported that a man, who cannot be named for legal reasons, was arrested in October over an alleged incident last year. The alleged victim was not a contestant…