The night began with the image of Ryan Castro on screen singing “SENDÉ” [the intro to the album of the same name, inspired by the classic “You Don’t Love Me (No, No, No)” by Dawn Penn] from inside a National Police helicopter, before “REBECCA” started playing and a double appeared, simulating[the artist walking on the…
Zara Larsson has announced an all-star ‘Midnight Sun’ remix album, inspired by the ‘Brat’ spinoff record. The Swedish pop star released her fifth studio record last summer, including the singles ‘Pretty Ugly’, ‘Midnight Sun’ and ‘Crush’, and now she has revealed details of a deluxe edition, titled ‘Midnight Sun: Girls Trip’. It will see a range of big names featuring on…
Most music students prepare for their graduation recitals alone in a practice room. On Friday night, though, the pianist Yunchan Lim had Carnegie Hall. It can be hard to remember that he is still a student. A phenomenal 22-year-old who shot to stardom when he became the youngest winner of the Van Cliburn International Piano…
Superstars perform “Permission to Dance” and “Magic Shop” as surprise song encore as stadium trek comes stateside After concerts in Seoul and Tokyo, BTS brought their Arirang World Tour to North America on Saturday with the first of three sold-out nights at Tampa, Florida’s Raymond James Stadium. The superstars’ set list didn’t deviate too far…
Heartsinks, in doctors’ private and profane lingo, are difficult patients who conjure dismay in the hearts of the medical professionals they come to see. So Dr Jeffrey Longford (Aden Gillett) reminds his friend and fellow GP after dealing with a “fit as a flea” hypochondriac who returns, week after week, albeit always with a slice…
Dave Grohl and company perform “Caught in the Echo” and “Child Actor” as first American musical guest to play U.K. version of SNL Foo Fighters performed two Your Favorite Toy songs live for the first time as the band served as musical guest on the latest episode of SNL UK. Just a day after the…
A few weeks after the German publication of his debut novel in 2024, author Matthias Jügler received a call from an employee at the German government agency tasked with investigating the human rights abuses of the socialist east. The call wasn’t overtly threatening; Jügler was asked to explain what historical source material he had consulted for…
Four millennia ago, a Sumerian king, his frontier beset by nomadic tribes fleeing prolonged drought in their own lands, ordered the construction of the world’s first border wall: a 177km-long boundary laid in stone between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers. Since humanity’s earliest city-states and kingdoms arose in ancient Mesopotamia, walls, ditches and fences have defended…
BTS is officially back and breathing U.S. air again. On Saturday (April 25), RM, Jin, SUGA, j-hope, Jimin, V and Jung Kook took the stage in front of 60,000 exhilarated fans at Raymond James Stadium in Tampa, Fla. While the concert marked BTS’ long-awaited return to a stadium in the States, it was only the…
GHOST TOWN, by Tom Perrotta Upon finishing Tom Perrotta’s new novel, “Ghost Town,” I found myself agreeably haunted by the corpulent specter of Harold Bloom: the late, great literary critic who called the Harry Potter books “rubbish only good for the dustbin where they will certainly wind up in a generation or so,” and Stephen…
