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Published on 15/06/2026 – 14:18 GMT+2 Oscar winner Robert De Niro attended a “Rise Up” event last night as part of some counterprogramming to Donald Trump’s 80th birthday cage fight celebrations. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT The New York event, which celebrated the First Amendment, saw the 82-year-old screen legend speak out against Trump. “I’m pretty close to…
Between streaming and cable, viewers have a seemingly endless variety of things to watch. Here is a selection of TV shows and specials that are airing or streaming this week, June 15-21. Details and times are subject to change. Pop culture, a summer surprise and football cheerleading. Cue AC/DC’s “Thunderstruck” and find your favorite vest…
Trying to unlock the secrets of Debussy’s opera Pelléas et Mélisande, based on Maeterlinck’s symbolist play, is a slippery task at the best of times. Doing so in a barely there staging, with the orchestra on the platform with the singers, is even trickier. For the opening performance of this summer’s Aldeburgh festival, that was…
Denmark’s Den Gamle By (National Open-Air Museum of Urban History and Culture) is celebrating after winning the coveted European Museum of the Year Award. The Aarhus based arts centre collected the title on Saturday night at the EMYA award’s ceremony in Bilbao, Spain. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT Presenting the prize, EMYA’s co-chair and jury member Daniëlle Kuijten…
It was a perfect sunny day for lounging poolside at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel. The sky was a keen pale blue, with that piercing quality familiar in Southern California. The pool, where a man with straight black hair drifted on a pink and green striped raft, was a deeper, cerulean blue. It looked a lot…
Just as I am about to interview this year’s Women’s prize winner, debut American novelist Virginia Evans, at the party on a drizzly evening in a leafy London square, we are interrupted because someone wants to congratulate her. The fan is Richard Curtis. A warm-hearted weepy with a sprinkling of gentle humour, Evans’s prize-winning novel…
When was the last time you visited a museum? What exhibitions or experiences left a lasting impression on you? The answers to these questions will possibly determine who wins this year’s prestigious European Museum of the Year Award (EMYA). ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT Established in 1997, the EMYAs celebrate excellence, innovation, humanitarianism and sustainability. Last year’s winner,…
Over the years, there have probably been 10,000 balcony scenes in 10,000 productions of “Romeo and Juliet.” And in that time, Juliet’s spot high above the Capulet garden has been played onstage by a window, a ladder, an Italianate porch, even a chair. There have been as many kinds of balconies as there have been…
Turner goes full-on drill sergeant for one scene as a dog-trainer, her forearms covered with scratches. Marley the irrepressible yellow labrador retriever knocks her to the ground and gives her a more vigorous humping than any co-star since William Hurt in Body Heat. A late-career chance to bare her claws again … Turner (right) and…
Lawyers for Nick Reiner, who has been charged with the murder of his parents, filed legal papers on Monday requesting money from a trust fund of more than $1.5 million to help finance his defense. Mr. Reiner, the younger son of the Hollywood director Rob Reiner and Michele Singer Reiner, pleaded not guilty to the…
