Britain honoured the life of Prince Philip this week at a funeral limited to 30 guests amid Covid-19 restrictions, while Raul Castro stepped down as head of Cuba’s communist party. Calls to waive vaccine patents grew as global Covid-19 deaths passed 3 million. Here in France, a top publisher asked writers to stop…
Issued on: 16/04/2021 – 15:45 FASHION © BARBARA BLANCHARD @bb_casting @alkesocce By: Media TV | Pascal MOURIER Barbara Blanchard is a business owner on a mission. Her belief in the importance not only of diversity but also inclusion infuses everything she does. In the 1990s she helped put on a…
Gustavo Dudamel will become music director of Paris Opera beginning Aug. 1, the company is expected to announce Friday morning, and Los Angeles will share the conductor with the City of Light for at least five years. Dudamel, who remains artistic and music director of the Los Angeles Philharmonic, will…
Issued on: 16/04/2021 – 16:48 We take a look at the new Netflix series which retraces the steps of a true-life, cold-blooded killer in “The Serpent”. Yena Lee tells us why actor Tahar Rahim is the major draw in this dramatisation of events in the 1970s that saw French murderer…
“Assassins” is a hard musical to love, but maybe even a harder one to forget. This show by Stephen Sondheim and John Weidman is built around a rogue’s gallery of infamous Americans who tried, in some cases successfully, to kill the president of the United States. As a description, “audacious”…
Lupin One of the year’s first hit shows was the delightful high-energy French heist comedy, inspired by classic stories of gentleman thief Arsène Lupin, written in the early 1900s. Many binged the slick and fast-moving series of five episodes (the remaining five are set to follow later in 2021), and…
The Times is committed to reviewing theatrical film releases during the COVID-19 pandemic. Because moviegoing carries risks during this time, we remind readers to follow health and safety guidelines as outlined by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and local health officials. If every picture tells a story, the…
A dance showcase with Tiler Peck and Charles “Lil Buck” Riley, a theater benefit with Matthew Broderick and Jane Krakowski, and a show for L.A.’s Downtown Women’s Center that includes watching Maria Bamford sleep for eight hours. Those are among the abundant options in our weekend list of in-person and…
Issued on: 15/04/2021 – 17:12 Two years after the historic blaze which devastated France’s iconic Notre-Dame Cathedral, filmmaker Jean-Jacques Annaud is shooting a feature inspired by the firefighters caught up in the event. Our reporters bring us a preview from the set. We also delve into the intrigue surrounding the…
While bathrooms are still full of shiny white, glass and mirrored surfaces, these are now being softened with a mix of textured materials. Meanwhile, stone, ceramics and vintage wood give character, and plants love steamy tropical bathrooms (or faux plants for the windowless). These materials are a far cry from…