This is Beirut, 12/09 14:00 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
Emmy Awards TV Film Drama Culture Art
The Emmy Awards, television's equivalent of the Oscars, will take place this Sunday, and pundits say the race for the highly coveted best drama series prize is too close to call. Apple TV+'s sci-fi office thriller Severance and HBO medical procedural The Pitt go head-to-head in the night's most prestigious category, while Hollywood satire The ...
This is Beirut, 12/09 10:30 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Music Ed Sheeran Popstar New Album Britain Culture
British popstar Ed Sheeran, who recently revealed an upcoming United States tour, will release his latest album Play on Friday. Play is the 34-year-old singer-songwriter's eighth studio album and follows more than a decade of stunning global success and smash hits like Shape of You and Perfect. He released his last album, Autumn Variations, in ...
This is Beirut, 11/09 13:00 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Fashion Week New-York KickOff Raplh Lauren Luxury Culture
Ralph Lauren moved the start of New York Fashion Week a few hours early, presenting a Spring 2026 collection on Wednesday that the designer described as minimalist with a touch of softness. The setting: the designer's offices on tony Madison Avenue, where models presented a range of fitted and flowing silhouettes mostly in solid ...
This is Beirut, 11/09 10:30 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
Vikings History Museum Last Trip Norway Culture
Three 1,200-year-old Viking ships that have stood the test of time are embarking on their final and possibly riskiest journey to their new forever home in Norway. The first to relocate is the Oseberg, which on Wednesday slowly made its way from its current location in the old Viking Ship Museum, arriving intact with a newly built addition that ...
This is Beirut, 10/09 20:00 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Painting Rubens Discovery France Netherlands Culture
A long-lost painting by 17th-century Flemish master Peter Paul Rubens has been found in a Paris mansion, a French auctioneer said on Wednesday. "It is a masterpiece," said Jean-Pierre Osenat, who had made the discovery, referring to the sketch of Jesus Christ on the cross painted in 1613. "It was painted by Rubens at the height of his talent," ...
David Sahyoun, 10/09 18:00 - Reading : 5 minute(s)
Psychoanalysis Freud Lacan Social Media Culture Unconscious
Freud repeatedly insisted that the unconscious cannot be grasped directly; it reveals itself instead through slips of the tongue, dreams, fantasies, and symptoms. Today, the web provides a stage where these formations of the unconscious assume new forms. Each Google search, each video watched on repeat, each story posted—or deleted—becomes the ...
This is Beirut, 10/09 10:30 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Colin Farrell Cinema Film Culture Art Toronto International Film Festival
Colin Farrell plunges into an intoxicating fever dream among the high-stakes baccarat tables of Macau casinos with Ballad of a Small Player, a rare major Western film shot on location in Asia's gambling capital. The surreal, dark and twisty drama co-stars Tilda Swinton as an investigator in pursuit of Farrell's velvet-suited conman and gambling ...
Bélinda Ibrahim, 09/09 19:00 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Gustave Courbet Model Culture Painting Constance Quéniaux
It is hard to imagine today the scandal Courbet’s painting sparked in 1866. Commissioned by Ottoman diplomat Khalil Bey, the canvas depicts, without embellishment, the genitals of a reclining woman — with no face and no background. Rendered with almost photographic realism, it disturbed, shocked, and unsettled. For more than a century, the ...
This is Beirut, 09/09 14:35 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Literature Books Dan Brown US Culture
Best-selling American author Dan Brown, creator of the publishing phenomenon The Da Vinci Code, released his latest thriller Tuesday in 16 languages simultaneously. The Secret of Secrets, which runs to nearly 700 pages in English, marks Brown's return eight years after his last novel, Origin. Brown called it "by far the most intricately plotted ...
This is Beirut, 08/09 14:45 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Fashion Luxury Funeral Giorgio Armani Italy Culture
The private funeral of fashion legend Giorgio Armani was set to take place Monday in a picturesque village near Piacenza, in the northern Italian region where the designer grew up. Only about 60 people were expected at the 3:30 pm (1330 GMT) ceremony, according to local media, at the 14th-century Church of San Martino in Rivalta, south of ...
This is Beirut, 08/09 14:00 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Channing Tatum Actor US Cinema Culture Art
Channing Tatum says his performance in Roofman, which tells the true story of a man who robbed dozens of McDonald's and hid out in a toy store, helped the stripper-turned-actor overcome "imposter syndrome." "I was getting (acting) jobs before I knew anything about what I was doing," Tatum told reporters Sunday, a day after the film's world ...
This is Beirut, 08/09 13:25 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Music Obituary Christoph von Dohnanyi Conductor Germany Culture
German conductor Christoph von Dohnányi, hailed as one of the greats of his generation, has died aged 95, public broadcaster NDR said Monday. Dohnanyi, who was long music director of the Cleveland Orchestra, died in Munich "a few days before his 96th birthday", which would have been Monday, NDR said. Dohnanyi was principal conductor of the NDR ...