Issued on: 11/01/2021 – 16:49Modified: 11/01/2021 – 16:51 ENCORE! © FRANCE 24 With a voice that’s both soulful and haunting, London-based singer-songwriter Luca Wilding has carved out a niche in poetic, storytelling songs with a melancholy edge. He’s been dubbed an artist to keep an eye out for. He tells…
In the decades since engineers first blanketed the Los Angeles River with concrete, working-class communities along its armored banks have struggled with blight, poverty and crowding — unintended consequences perhaps of an epic bid to control Mother Nature. Now, as many of these neighborhoods suffer disproportionately higher rates of infection…
In Offill’s Weather, a sublime blend of hilarity, warmth and existential despair that’s far more entertaining than it has any right to be, given its subject matter, protagonist Lizzie is buckling as she tries to fulfil the roles of both Chris and Emma, prepper and pragmatist. It’s what Offill describes…
Issued on: 08/01/2021 – 16:22Modified: 08/01/2021 – 16:23 ENCORE! © FRANCE 24 Inseparable, intense, secretive and spookily intertwined: these are the two sibling protagonists at the centre of Daisy Johnson’s unsettling novel “Sisters”. The author tells us about how the relationship between July and her older sister September evolved throughout the…
Issued on: 08/01/2021 – 17:13 The Louvre, the world’s biggest museum, suffered a drop in visitor numbers of over 70 percent last year as Covid restrictions kept art lovers away, it said on Friday. Receipts fell by more than 90 million euros ($110 million) compared with 2019. The Louvre, which…
Publié le: 08/01/2021 – 13:28 Modifié: 08/01/2021 – 13:30 FASHION © Colette mon amour Par: Télévision multimédia | Pascal MOURIER Ce n'est un secret pour personne que la mode dépend fortement de l'attention des médias. Mais les documentaires de mode restent rares. Raison de plus pour saluer l'arrivée d'un film…
Une fable musicale de David Bowie, un concerto pour piano de Philip Glass et un hommage à un compositeur légendaire de Broadway sont en tête de notre liste hebdomadaire de concerts en ligne, de productions théâtrales en streaming, d'expositions d'art virtuelles et d'autres cultures à votre disposition ce week-end. Voici…
In painter Don Perlis’ re-creation of the brutal killing of George Floyd, an officer kneels on Floyd’s neck and two other officers further pin him down, as another officer in the background looks away from the scene. Floyd’s eyes, frozen in anguish, gaze out toward the viewer. The oil painting,…
Twenty films to watch in 2021 (Image credit: Focus Features) BBC Culture film critics Nicholas Barber and Caryn James pick their selection of the most exciting films to watch in the coming year. (Credit: Sony Pictures Classics) French Exit When this ultra-sharp black comedy was shown as part of the…
“Symbol of democracy.” The phrase echoed in one form or another throughout social media on Wednesday as swarms of Trump supporters smashed their way into the U.S. Capitol building, instigated by a bitter president who refuses to recognize his electoral defeat. Images of extremists sporting MAGA hats and Trump banners,…