sign up to our National World Today newsletter Music fans from across the country will be flocking to Yorkshire at the end of August. Leeds Festival is returning and promises to be yet another huge weekend of live music. sign up to our National World… Read More »Leeds Festival 2022: line-up, tickets and when is the festival
“Heat 2” (William Morrow, 480 pp., ★★★ out of four) – both prequel and sequel to Michael Mann’s iconic 1995 film starring Al Pacino as LAPD Lt. Vincent Hanna and Robert De Niro as violent professional thief Neil McCauley – is sort of an odd… Read More »Michael Mann’s sequel a must-read for film fans
Welcome to Group Text, a monthly column for readers and book clubs about the novels, memoirs and short-story collections that make you want to talk, ask questions and dwell in another world for a little bit longer. ________ When I first read about Harvey Weinstein’s… Read More »Review: ‘Complicit,’ by Winnie M Li
The Gold Coast Titans have produced their best performance of the season to end Manly’s with a 44-24 victory on Sunday night. Titans coach Justin Holbrook breathed a huge sigh of relief as his men played with a freedom rarely seen this season to snap… Read More »Gold Coast Titans vs Manly Sea Eagles, result, match report, Justin Holbrook, Beau Fermor, David Fifita, SuperCoach scores, video
Ellen De Mejeir, “4th Generation Bill” (2020), oil on canvas, 19.7″ x 15.7″ Courtesy of Unix Gallery It’s often said that there’s nothing new in art, and it can certainly seem that way at times. But there is much value in revisiting familiar genres if… Read More »Art review: New takes on classical art forms in two Portland shows
The Master Chief returns to our screens this week, with the Halo TV series launching today (24th March) over in the USA. But how are people in the UK meant to watch it? Fans who have played the Halo games and even watched the Halo… Read More »How to watch Halo TV series in the UK
Steven Page has had a decades-long career in Canadian music, and is known for his witty and humorous songwriting. Page was a founding member and lead singer of the multiple-award-winning Barenaked Ladies, which was formed over three decades ago. I have left the group in… Read More »Steven Page talks Greenway Jam, pandemic crowds and playing live from the kitchen
Ata key moment in this self-consciously deconstructive slice of spectacular cinema from Jordan Peele, writer-director of get-out and Usa character theorises that the monster (whatever it may be) is at its most dangerous when being looked at. It’s an idea that’s as old as the… Read More »Nope review – Jordan Peele’s brilliantly horrifying ride to nowhere | horror movies
King Juan Carlos I of Spain Center (53 Washington Square South, New York, NY) will present “Illustrating Spain in the US,” a joint artistic effort to deepen the Spanish presence in America. Commissioned by the Cultural Office of the Embassy of Spain and curated by… Read More »Illustrated Spain in the US
Peter A. Flynn, Sr. Jan 6, 1932 – Aug 10, 2021 RESTON, VA – Peter A. Flynn, Sr., a longtime resident of Reston, VA, died at home, surrounded by his family, a year ago on Aug. 10, 2021. Peter was born in Auburn on Jan.… Read More »Peter Flynn Obituary (2022) – Auburn, NY