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A 2019 Timeline

1. ~January 25~   The longest United States federal government SOHWTUND in history ended. It lasted 35 days. It stemmed from ...

Japanese theatre to stage kabuki version of Star Wars

1. The Star Wars franchise is about to breach the artistic final frontier with a one-off performance of a kabuki ...

Dancing Past 60

1. At the Korean Community Services of Metropolitan New York center in Flushing, Queens, men comb through newspapers and sip ...

Zoom sur Merce Cunningham

1. ~Philosophy~   Led by his technique, Cunningham was obsessed with exploring the near limitless possibilities for human movement.   ...

Hip-hop to haute couture: dance's love affair with fashion

1. The shy bookseller played by Audrey Hepburn in 1957’s Funny Face wears couture versions of ballet pumps. The actor ...

Accent bias in UK

1. Working class Birmingham and Afro Caribbean accents sit at the bottom of an “enduring hierarchy of accents” in the ...

Sur le vif

1. ~Chiffre de la quinzaine~ 6,000 While there seems to be a race for ever snazzier in-home entertainment setups, more ...

A 360°

1. ~Habsburg jaw (ESPAGNE)~ The House of Habsburg produced Austrian and Spanish kings and queens who occupied the throne of ...

TikTok’s silly clips raise some serious questions

1. If this article were a TikTok video, it would already be almost over—and you would be smiling. TikTok’s 15-second ...

Uber loses London licence

1. Uber has been stripped of its London licence after authorities found that more than 14,000 trips were taken with ...

Is it time we stopped glorifying Ricky Gervais?

1. There have been a number of Golden Globes hosts funnier than Ricky Gervais. There have also been ones that ...

Netflix's New Cinema

1. NEW YORK — When the Paris Theater, New York City’s last surviving single-screen movie house, shut its doors in ...

Les Echos

1. ~No fairytale~   Mena Massoud, the Egyptian-Canadian actor who played Aladdin in the recent Disney live-action remake does not mince ...

Study finds key to good pop music

1. Enjoyment of music comes from the right combination of uncertainty and surprise, according to an analysis of more than ...

Humans placed in ‘suspended animation’

1. US doctors have placed live human patients in suspended animation for the first time, in trials designed to allow ...

Le dessin

1. big deal; loan    2. ~Stamped out~   U.S. Department of Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue has criticised the 80-year-old federal ...