LOS ANGELES — Take your seat because Taylor Swift’s “Tortured Poets Department” meeting has officially been called into session and, surprise, it’s a 31-song mega double album. The Grammy-winner first released her highly anticipated 11th studio album on Friday, with the album appearing on Apple Music sometime prior to its scheduled midnight release time. At […]
LONDON — All five members of the Spice Girls have reunited, just perhaps not as you’d expect. On Saturday night, Victoria Beckham, Melanie Brown, Emma Bunton, Geri Horner and Melanie Chisholm, better known as Posh, Scary, Baby, Ginger and Sporty Spice, came together to celebrate Victoria’s 50th birthday in London. The bandmates partied like it
LONDON — The cast of The Lords of the Rings have paid tribute to their co-star Bernard Hill, who has died aged 79. The actor — who played King Théoden in Peter Jackson’s trilogy — passed away early on Sunday morning. Elijah Wood, Billy Boyd, Dominic Monaghan and Sean Astin, who played the four hobbits
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DHAHRAN: Saudi filmmakers of the future were given a masterclass in the latest animation techniques as part of the Saudi Film Festival this week. The animation workshops were led by experts from the US as part of a collaboration between the festival and the American Chamber of Commerce and US Consulate in Dhahran. The animation
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DHAHRAN: Saudi filmmakers of the future were given a masterclass in the latest animation techniques as part of the Saudi Film Festival this week. The animation workshops were led by experts from the US as part of a collaboration between the festival and the American Chamber of Commerce and US Consulate in Dhahran. The animation
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Highlights from the Middle East Institute’s ‘Louder Than Hearts’ in Washington DC DUBAI: The Middle East Institute in Washington DC is hosting works by female photographers from the Arab world. Tasneem Al-Sultan ‘Diversity Within Saudi Weddings’ The acclaimed Lebanon-born Palestinian-American photographer Rania Matar has curated “Louder Than Hearts,” an exhibition of work by 10 female photographers,
MALMO, Sweden: The second semifinal of this year’s Eurovision Song Contest will take place in Sweden on Thursday, with Israel’s performance expected to draw attention due to large pro-Palestinian protests planned in host city Malmo. Some 100,000 visitors have gathered in Malmo in southern Sweden for the annual kitsch-fest, which is watched by some 200
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DUBAI: The 13-year-old Saudi social-media personality, host of the “Rateel Alpha Talk” podcast, recently topped the ranks of content creators born in the Kingdom on the US site Famous Birthdays. Here, she talks fashion, time management and more. Best fashion trend of 2024? Denim tops. I think they can get styled very easily and they
Best & Worst: Saudi teen social media star Rateel Alshehri talks fashion and outdated apps DUBAI: The 13-year-old Saudi social-media personality, host of the “Rateel Alpha Talk” podcast, recently topped the ranks of content creators born in the Kingdom on the US site Famous Birthdays. Here, she talks fashion, time management and more. Best fashion
DUBAI: Dalya Moumina is an emerging New York-based artist whose imaginative landscape paintings partially pay tribute to her Arab and Asian heritage. She was born in Washington DC in 1996 to a Saudi-Palestinian father and a Filipina mother. Both were travel lovers, who luckily happened to have met each other on a flight. When Moumina
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