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On a crisp Thursday morning hours before Desire Marea’s performance at the Transform Festival in Leeds, England, earlier this month, the South African songwriter sat in Kirkstall Valley Nature Reserve, communing with his Zulu ancestors. It’s a practice he honed through his training as a sangoma, a traditional spiritual healer, and it is essential to…

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The summer of 2023 was painted pink. The “Barbie” movie broke records at the box office and inspired “Barbiecore,” an aesthetic “made up primarily of hot pink, and similarly bold rosy hues like fuchsia and magenta,” according to a New York Times article about the rise of Barbie-inspired home décor. “Everything I buy is always…

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Containment is a strategy that works only so long; the war will not stay put, the war will come to you. The Kyiv Biennial, a key fixture of contemporary art in Eastern Europe over the past decade, has opened its fifth edition on time and at full scale, but not (or not principally) at home….

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Matthew Perry’s fellow “Friends” cast members expressed their grief and sadness about his death in a joint statement to People magazine on Monday. “We are all so utterly devastated by the loss of Matthew. We were more than just cast mates. We are a family,” Courteney Cox, Jennifer Aniston, Lisa Kudrow, Matt LeBlanc and David…

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Rebecca Loos said she would “rather not be here” as she appeared on Good Morning Britain on Monday, 30 October, to speak about about David Beckham‘s new Netflix documentary. The former personal assistant to the football star was embroiled in a celebrity scandal in 2004 after claiming she’d had an affair with Beckham while she…

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Bobi broke the Guinness World Record for oldest dog in February.—Guinness World Records  Bobi, the world’s oldest dog, passed away in Portugal at the remarkable age of 31, confirmed by Guinness World Records. Bobi, a purebred Rafeiro Alentejano, spent his entire life in a village in central Portugal and achieved the remarkable feat of living…

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Hollywood’s ongoing actors’ strike has already brought the US entertainment industry to a halt – and now it is coming for the nation’s favourite spooky holiday too. The Screen Actors Guild (SAG-AFTRA) this week advised its 160,000 members to avoid dressing as characters tied to the studios it is currently striking against. That rules out…

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In the excerpts released so far, Spears rewinds back to her days as a preteen in “The Mickey Mouse Club” — recalling a truth-or-dare kiss with Timberlake, a fellow cast member — and to coming close to being cast as the lead opposite Ryan Gosling in “The Notebook,” a role that ultimately went to Rachel…

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