Days after the tragedy, T4F released a statement, pointing to climate change as the culprit: “Rising temperatures caused by climate change are a reality,” it reads, and stressing that in more than 40 years of event management the organisation has ensured safety for more than 50 million event attendees. “We are all subject to adverse […]
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“That said, when you tell these kind of binary stories of blackness, when you tell these stories about slavery, and the civil right era, what it allows white audience members to do is to say, this depiction of race does not harm my self image because I’m not burning a cross on anybody’s lawn, I […]
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Tchaikovsky’s classic Christmas ballet has been reimagined by Olivier Award-winner Drew McOnie. This production of Nutcracker, with music adapted by Mercury Prize-nominated musician Cassie Kinoshi, is set in the Tuff Nutt Jazz Club, at London’s Southbank Centre. Video Journalist Claudia Redmond. Dancers featured: Mark Samaras, Patricia Zhou, Amonik Melaco, Chanelle Anthony, Christie Crosson, Tim Hodges. […]
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Macaulay Culkin, who played the eight-year-old Kevin McCallister in Home Alone, has unveiled his Walk of Fame star on Hollywood Boulevard in Los Angeles. At the ceremony he was reunited with actress Catherine O’Hara, who played his mum in the 1990 hit film. She thanked him for “including me, your fake mum who left you […]
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His predecessor at the Bolshoi, 76-year-old Vladimir Urin, did not explain why he was stepping down after 10 years in the job. Although he joined a number of cultural figures in signing an anti-war letter at the start of the war, he later admitted that some names had been removed from Bolshoi posters because they […]
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Fans screamed as Taylor Swift and Beyoncé walked the red carpet at the London premiere of Renaissance. The film, which captures Beyoncé’s summer tour to more than 50 cities in Europe and North America, opens in cinemas on 1 December It follows the release of Swift’s Eras Tour concert film in October.
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Irish singer-songwriter and The Pogues frontman Shane MacGowan has died aged 65, following ill-health and a recent hospital stay after being diagnosed with encephalitis. The musician had been unwell for some time. MacGowan also had well-documented problems with drugs and alcohol. In the 2020 documentary Crock of Gold: A Few Rounds with Shane MacGowan, he […]
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He shares a place in culture alongside Dylan Thomas, George Best and Keith Richards. It’s a pity his drink, drugs and near death excesses have overshadowed the music, because in an era of glossy, MTV friendly, over-produced, rah-rah skirted pop, he was the perfect counterpoint.
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Luke McCullough, BBC Scotland’s head of corporate affairs, said: “Scotch on the Rocks was an iconic piece of TV drama made here in Scotland, but was never repeated following its original transmission due to the complaint being upheld about a key plot point in the first episode.
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Watch the moment Irish author Paul Lynch won the 2023 Booker Prize for Prophet Song, a dystopian vision of Ireland in the grips of totalitarianism. On picking up the award, he said the novel was “not an easy book to write”. The Booker Award is one of the leading literary awards in the English speaking […]
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