Paramilitary forces in Sudan unleashed “a wave of intense violence…shocking in its scale and brutality” during their final offensive to capture the besieged city of El Fasher last October, committing ...
It is no surprise that Hasan Hadi’s 'The President’s Cake' won the prestigious Caméra D’Or for best first feature at the 2025 Cannes Film Festival. The hard-hitting and intimate drama is both a ...
What the hell was Prince William doing in Saudi Arabia, in his suede boots and open-necked shirt, his lemon-faced presence giving legitimacy to one of the most repressive regimes on the planet?
You’re never too old to release your first rock single, as proven by the Vampire Lestat, who turns 266 years young this ...
Every time I travel and introduce myself as Malawian, I brace myself. Not for curiosity—that would be welcome—but for the predictable interrogation that follows. The moment I hand over my passport, I ...
This week the Ghanian musician Ebo Taylor died at 90 years old. While he was not well known in the U.S. he was a star in Africa, and a defining force in highlife music.
Ebo Taylor has died at 90. He was a world-renowned musician and composer of African highlife music, but it took decades for him to come to the U.S.
Glengarry Glen Ross, Magnolia, and Fargo are all among the absolute best movie masterpieces of the 1990s with excellent ...
The event also revealed that Springsteen shared some of my initial hesitations about “Streets of Minneapolis.” He said that before releasing it, he’d sent it to Tom Morello, the former Rage Against ...
“And then he played me the whole Mercyful Fate medley down the phone. He said, ‘What do you think?’ I said, ‘Are you kidding?
On Saturday, the Tithe Barn in Bradford on Avon played host to a tradition known as the Wassail, to awaken the cider apple trees and to scare away evil spirits and bad bugs to ensure a good harvest of ...