Author: Jim Springer
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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
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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.
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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…
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Vogue makes history with male editor
Edward Enninful is expected to add pop culture to the grande dame of fashion titles
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Ice cream has fashion licked on high street
The boss of Next has been saying for some time that fashion has fallen out of, well, fashion with shoppers…
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Playing dress up, Japanese style
Japan isn’t weird. Spending hundreds of thousands of yen transforming yourself into the human equivalent of a computer-game character, a…
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Botanic’s popular light show switched to new festive event
An award-winning night-time sound and light show at the Royal Botanic Garden in Edinburgh has been replaced by a new…
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Galaxy Note 7 burns £1.9bn hole in Samsung profits
Samsung has slashed its estimate for quarterly profits by £1.9 billion after scrapping the Galaxy Note 7 smartphone.
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Can bunnies help Samsung bounce back?
I have seen the future and it has bunny ears. Yes folks, the younger generation’s obsession with adding animal parts…
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Smartphones blamed for rise in child road deaths
The number of children killed or seriously injured on Britain’s roads has jumped by more than a fifth in the…