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The Past and the Future of TV
To a 20th century household TV was the same thing fireplace was in the Middle Ages: the focal point and probably the most important thing in the world. Generations ...
May 4, 2017
Irish GTA V gamers pay 30% more than British
GRAND Theft Auto V (GTA V) may have had record-breaking sales in its first week, but there were few winners among Irish gamers who had to pay almost 30% ...
April 12, 2017
Is Body Shop still worth it for L’Oréal?
The beauty of its natural ingredients, reusable bottles and stand against animal testing was such that even L’Oréal could not resist the allure of the Body Shop (Alexandra Frean ...
March 31, 2017
Making classical music sexy on screen
Gael García Bernal, the star of a hot TV drama about a rock-star conductor, explains who inspired his character ...
March 15, 2017
‘He has music coming out of his pores’
Meet the 11-year-old prodigy preparing to conduct a 75-piece symphony orchestra ...
March 1, 2017
Return of the comic book superheroes
The Flash, the Green Lantern and Wonder Woman will get another outing on the big screen, Iron Man and Captain America will go head-to-head and Spider-Man is to weave ...
February 15, 2017
The man who saved the comic book
Stan Lee, creator of Hollywood’s favourite superheroes, has just written his memoirs. He’s not as rich as Iron Man, he insists, and, no, he didn’t know Iceman had turned ...
February 2, 2017
Damien Chazelle: ‘Movies have got too cynical, too realistic-minded — very literal’
The director of the award-winning musical La La Land on why we need old-style Hollywood romanticism more than ever ...
January 23, 2017
Home of modern arts has to close its doors
An arts gallery that has showcased modern works and botanical treasures for 30 years is to close to save money. ...
January 7, 2017
Found: the opera rat by Degas that really gave birth to modern art
It is the original sculpture credited with bringing about the birth of modern art: a teenage dancer whose pose pushed artists into revolution. ...
December 23, 2016