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The New York TimesThis year’s Academy Awards ceremony airs on ABC. And PBS airs a three-part documentary pegged to Earth D...
SCMPIndonesia aims to welcome back foreign tourists to the resort islands of Bali, Bintan and Batam by the end of July, with a plan to speed up vaccinations in those areas to halt the spread of the coronavirus.The government is in talks with Singapore...
SCMPAfter a slow start fans have returned in droves to see the re-released Tolkien fantasy trilogy the Lord of the Rings. Chinese fans flocked to theatres over the weekend, celebrating the return of the Oscar-winning trilogy to screens, driving its bo...
SCMPLike her famous dad, Hayley Hasselhoff is huge in Germany.The buxom daughter of pop culture icon David Hasselhoff is celebrating the fact she’s the first “curve model” to be featured on the cover of Playboy magazine’s German edition.The 28-year-ol...
SCMPWeddings would not be weddings without a few photos to mark the occasion. Without question, all that surrounds these milestone-marking ceremonies comprises a minor pillar industry in Hong Kong, and has done for several decades. Whatever the person...
SCMPIn the first minute of Do Not Split, the Oscar-nominated short documentary on the 2019 protests, young protesters wheel a supermarket trolley down a street at night while urgently shouting at passers-by, “Where’s the Bank of China?” Eventually, th...
SCMPIf ever there was a time to ditch the razors, waxing strips and laser appointments, it’s been this past homebound year. The sight of singer and songwriter Julia Michaels on the red carpet at last month’s (mostly virtual) Grammys baring her armpit ...
The New York TimesThis classical superstar, just named as the Paris Opera’s next music director, isn’t the first maestro to jump to the theat...
The New York TimesKen-Matt Martin, the esteemed Chicago theater’s first Black artistic director, is going in with his eyes op...
SCMPRed Sands (2020) is more of a travelogue with recipes than a conventional cookbook. This is not meant as a criticism – author Caroline Eden writes beautifully and evocatively – but as a warning to those who dislike “life stories”, or too many word...
The New York TimesIn “Hawking Hawking,” Charles Seife offers a portrait of the famous theoretical physicist and tries to unpack his place in popular cultu...
The New York TimesTake the day to plan ahead and make a Mississippi Roast or fish cakes with herbs and chiles. Both will set you up for the days that foll...
SCMPIn the past week, K-pop acts including I. O. I, NCT Dream and Shinee have confirmed their plans for 2021, raising anticipation for the rest of the year. Short-lived but very popular girl group I. O. I, an 11-member team formed through the 2016 tel...
CNBCConsumers are trading puzzles and sweats for champagne and skirts as they get Covid-19 vaccinations and plan outings aga...
The New York TimesNewly spurred to action to combat bias, they generate subway posters, leverage social media, stage Zoom webinars. “Our community couldn’t take being invisible any longer,” one artist sa...
SCMPFirst Person Singular by Haruki Murakami (translated by Philip Gabriel), KnopfIn “Cream”, the opening story of Haruki Murakami’s new collection, the narrator buys a bunch of flowers for a pianist acquaintance who has invited him to her concert sev...
SCMPAfter she turned 40, Eunice Su-Ai realised that keeping fit was not as easy as it was before. In her 20s, she took part in triathlons, ran 12km (7.5 miles) every weekend, and hiked and climbed mountains regularly. Now, at 46, she says that recove...
The New York TimesLouis Menand’s new book about art and thought in the postwar years features a very large cast, including George Orwell, James Baldwin, Susan Sontag and the Beatl...
