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Image copyright Wiener Staatsoper/Michael Pöhn Image caption Kate Lindsey will play the title role of Orlando For the first time in its 150-year history, the Vienna State Opera is staging an opera by a woman. Austrian composer Olga Neuwirth has written a new opera based on Virginia Woolf’s 1928 novel Orlando which deals with themes […]

This is ― and we can’t stress this enough ― literally bananas.  A banana duct taped to the wall of an art gallery has reportedly sold for a whopping $120,000, proving that Lucille Bluth’s assessment that a banana could potentially cost $10 was wildly off. On Friday, the art world took center stage on social

Image copyright Panipat film Image caption Sanjay Dutt (R) plays Afghan leader Ahmad Shah Abdali The argument over a war that took place in the 18th Century began in a modern way: with a tweet. “Death strikes where his shadow falls,” wrote Sanjay Dutt, the veteran Bollywood actor who plays the Afghan leader, Ahmad Shah

Comedian and actor Tiffany Haddish honored her Jewish heritage during a star-studded bat mitzvah ceremony in Los Angeles this week. The star’s bat mitzvah ceremony took place on Tuesday, the same day Haddish turned 40 years old and released her new Netflix comedy special, “Black Mitzvah.” In an Instagram post, Haddish called it “one of the

Image copyright Bob Brechin Image caption Palitoy executives visited the United States to see the very first Star Wars toys Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker, released on 19 December, is sure to set tills ringing just as loudly in toy shops as in cinemas. But the decades-spanning success of Star Wars toys owes much

It’s rare to see a woman in the public eye who doesn’t color her grays. So when artist Alexandra Grant — a 46-year-old with a mane of naturally silver hair — was thrust into the spotlight a month ago when she was photographed holding hands with her longtime collaborator Keanu Reeves, 55, people were intrigued.

The Lan Colliery employed more than 300 people but when a gas explosion tore through the coal seem, 16 people were killed. Among the dead were two children aged just 11 and 12. The mine’s overman, Abraham Phillips, who was killed in the disaster, was blamed for taking men underground having been warned of the

“Waves,” the new family drama written and directed by filmmaker Trey Edward Shults, is a story about what happens when things go unsaid. The film has two major parts. In the first, teenager Tyler (Kelvin Harrison Jr.) grapples with the emotional weight of a volatile first love, a career-ending wrestling injury, and his strict father’s

Image copyright Getty Images Image caption Adam Lambert, Mchelle Gonzalez and Rita Ora were among the stars who paid tribute Stars including Rita Ora, Adam Lambert and David Guetta have played a charity tribute concert in honour of the late Swedish DJ Avicii. Avicii, whose real name was Tim Bergling, was found dead in Oman

“The Late Show” host noted how Giuliani is currently “being very coy” about continuing his Ukraine dealings amid the impeachment inquiry into Trump. He then aired Giuliani’s recent interview with disgraced former Fox News host Eric Bolling in which the former New York City mayor verbally stumbled and inadvertently admitted to being in Ukraine. “I