Tag: expression

Mali Obomsawin: Sweet Tooth review – proud, vital marriage of folk and far-out jazz improv | Music

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The artwork for Mali Obomsawin: Sweet Tooth

Mali Obomsawin is a musician from the First Abenaki Nation, growing up on ancestral land in Maine and Quebec, whose debut album asks vital questions about the reception and expression of indigenous and traditional music. […]

A Faithful Recounting of the ‘Planes, Trains & Automobiles’ Infidelity Storyline That Was Left on the Cutting Room Floor

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A Faithful Recounting of the ‘Planes, Trains & Automobiles’ Infidelity Storyline That Was Left on the Cutting Room Floor

Continue Reading Below I’d come from the theater and was used to having three weeks of rehearsal, but this was all pulled together very fast. For example, John Hughes gave me this new phone call […]

The Crown season 5 review: Queen’s death brings timeliness, but not relevancy

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Elizabeth Debicki as Princess Diana, sitting at a desk and looking up at someone, in The Crown

Early in the new season of The Crown, Prince Philip (Jonathan Pryce) sits across from Queen Elizabeth II (Imelda Staunton) at a dining table aboard the Royal Yacht Britannia, lamenting the decrepit state of the […]

Worst Instant-Save Advances, Best Booted

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Worst Instant-Save Advances, Best Booted

One Instant-Save contestant — who should have never been there — delivered one of the most mind-blowing performances of the season … and still lost! We’re still trying to pick our jaws up off the […]

The scary truth about AI copyright is nobody knows what will happen next

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Two images of the Mona Lisa each in a different art style, one classical, the other more modern abstract with vibrant colors.

Generative AI has had a very good year. Corporations like Microsoft, Adobe, and GitHub are integrating the tech into their products; startups are raising hundreds of millions to compete with them; and the software even […]

Zachary Quinto: ‘I have lost a certain faith in America’s system’ | Stage

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David Harewood and Zachary Quinto in rehearsals for Best of Enemies.

When the uncompromising American writer Gore Vidal had people over for dinner, he would often put on old tapes of his televised debates with conservative William F Buckley. Deep into his old age, he would […]

Maybe Studio Ghibli will finally let Star Wars characters enjoy food

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Shaggy old hermit Luke Skywalker (Mark Hamill) presses an alien boob to produce some greenish milk in Star Wars: Episode VIII – The Last Jedi

Quick: What’s the first thing that comes to mind when you hear “Star Wars food?” It’s a safe bet that most people either think of blue or green milk, or the roasted Porg from The […]

Winston Duke & Damson Idris Sizzle The Savage X Fenty Show

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Damson Idris

A M’Baku playing actor’s appearance in a fashion show has the Internet Jabari Tribe tingling. Likewise, Franklin Saint’s scintillating appearance is garnering lust “brick by brick.” Winston Duke and Damson Idris are just two of […]

The best ‘Chinese anime’ donghua you can watch right now

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A small child with large blue eyes peers into the sky, with the stars reflected back in their eyes, in Pan Gu.

Donghua — Chinese animation, sometimes mistakenly conflated with anime — covers as wide a variety of tones and subjects as any other type of animated story, from sunny necromancers to particularly rebellious children with dragon […]

Chinese animation is booming — but don’t confuse it with anime

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A young person wearing a white robe puts their hand on a dragon’s head while standing over it in a drawn image from Nezha Conquers the Dragon King.

In 2021, Funimation viewers got what might have been their first introduction to donghua when the anime streaming service added the series Heaven Official’s Blessing to its roster. But the service mistakenly listed the language […]

Chinese animation is booming — but don’t confuse it with anime

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A young person wearing a white robe puts their hand on a dragon’s head while standing over it in a drawn image from Nezha Conquers the Dragon King.

In 2021, Funimation viewers got what might have been their first introduction to donghua when the anime streaming service added the series Heaven Official’s Blessing to its roster. But the service mistakenly listed the language […]

Cheick Tidiane Seck: Kelena Fôly review – deeply human vocals and piano from a Malian master | Music

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Cheick Tidiane Seck: Kelena Fôly album cover

There are few places to hide on a solo piano record. The often fragile and expressive format has been a gauntlet for some of music’s great improvisers, including Abdullah Ibrahim on 2021’s Solotude and Keith […]

Elton John Enters Roblox to go ‘Beyond the Yellow Brick Road’

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Elton John Beyond the Yellow Brick Road

Photo Credit: Roblox Elton John is joining Roblox with his own world, ‘Elton John Presents: Beyond the Yellow Brick Road.’ The world was created in partnership with Elton John by Rocket Entertainment and Roblox creators, […]

From Tampongate to the Bashir bombshells: will King Charles III finally hit back at The Crown? | Television

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Imelda Staunton as Queen Elizabeth II and Jonathan Pryce as Prince Philip.

The Prince of Wales invites prime minister Sir John Major to a secret meeting to explore the possibility of becoming Charles III in 1991 not 2022. The Princess of Wales seduces heart surgeon Hasnat Khan […]