This is Beirut, 14/04 14:00 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
A Minecraft Movie easily held on to the top spot in North American theaters this weekend with estimated ticket sales of a solid $80.6 million, analysts said Sunday. That was roughly half the total of its huge opening last weekend. But with $281 million in domestic ticket sales to date, along with $269 million internationally, Minecraft has set ...
This is Beirut, 14/04 10:00 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Osaka Japan Expo 2025 Exhibition Art Culture
A multi-eyed mascot, a vast wooden Grand Ring, 160 countries and regions strutting their stuff, and robots and sushi galore: Expo 2025 began on Sunday in Osaka, Japan. The World Expo is held every five years in different global locations. Here are five things to know about this event, which runs until mid-October. Grand Ring Encircling dozens of ...
This is Beirut, 13/04 14:00 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Disney Premiere Paris Disneyland Culture Art
Disneyland Paris will open to the public on May 15 the newly redesigned “World Premiere,” a fully reimagined building and the first step in the massive renovation of its second park, Walt Disney Studios, which is set to double in size. The American group The Walt Disney Company announced in 2018 a large-scale expansion and transformation plan ...
This is Beirut, 12/04 18:00 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
The California desert was buzzing Friday as the premier music festival Coachella got underway, with Lady Gaga and Missy Elliott set to helm day one's main stage. Thousands of music fans traversed the sprawling grounds whipping paper fans and wielding parasols, as temperatures cracked the 100-degree Fahrenheit mark (37.8 degrees Celsius). That ...
This is Beirut, 12/04 15:00 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
Series Art Film Psychology Thriller
After 20 years saving lives in the title role of Grey’s Anatomy, actress Ellen Pompeo makes a dramatic career shift in Good American Family, a tense series inspired by true events where she plays a disturbing adoptive mother — a “big challenge” she had long been hoping for. Already airing in the United States since March and arriving ...
This is Beirut, 12/04 10:30 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Iran Censorship Cannes Film Cinema Art
The Iranian directors of the film My Favorite Cake, praised in both France and the United States, have been sentenced to suspended prison terms, according to an independent legal website and a human rights NGO. Maryam Moghadam and Behtash Sanaeeha, already recognized in 2020 for Ballad of a White Cow, were prosecuted for “propaganda against ...
This is Beirut, 11/04 18:00 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
Sweden's recycling centers are overflowing with clothes after an EU-wide ban this year on throwing away textiles, leaving overwhelmed municipalities eager to have fast fashion giants take responsibility. "It's a huge amount coming in every day. It's been crazy, it's a huge increase," said Brian Kelly, secretary general of the Artikel2 charity ...
This is Beirut, 11/04 10:30 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Museum Exhibition Art Culture Buckingham Palace
Elegance, opulence, and hedonism—an exceptional exhibition in London retraces the Edwardian era before World War I through the lives of Queen Alexandra and King Edward VII, during a time of great transformation. The exhibition, The Edwardians: Age of Elegance, opens Friday at Buckingham Palace and runs through November 23. It brings together ...
This is Beirut, 09/04 10:30 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Perfume Art Culture Heritage Luxury
In rapid succession, molten drops of glass fall into molds, giving shape to iconic perfume bottles from Lancôme, Chanel, and Guerlain—now produced with a lighter carbon footprint thanks to a new electric furnace at the Pochet du Courval glassworks in Normandy. An intense heat surrounds the furnace, which continuously melts a mix of raw ...
This is Beirut, 08/04 17:00 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
National Gallery UK Exhibition Museum Art Culture
A lucky visitor will soon become the first ever to sleep overnight at Britain's National Gallery, after the 200-year-old museum launched a competition on Monday to mark the reopening of a wing housing celebrated European paintings. When the Sainsbury Wing reopens after a two-year refurbishment on May 10, the overnight guest — to be picked at ...
This is Beirut, 08/04 14:30 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
Exhibition Art Culture David Hockney Paris Louis Vuitton
Increasingly frail but with undimmed passion, Britain's David Hockney has put aside his health worries to shape what he describes as the biggest exhibition of his vast career. With around 400 works assembled over four floors, the Louis Vuitton Foundation in Paris has put on a stunning tribute to one of the world's best-selling living ...
This is Beirut, 08/04 10:00 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Fashion Luxury LVMH Art Culture
Luxury giant LVMH announced on Monday a series of leadership changes across several of its key fashion houses, appointing new CEOs at Fendi and Kenzo, as well as a new head of Louis Vuitton China, who comes from a top position at Apple. At Fendi, the Italian fashion house, Ramon Ros will succeed Pierre-Emmanuel Angeloglou as CEO starting July 1. ...