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Empire Polo Club, Indio, CaliforniaThis year starts off on a bum note with the singer’s downbeat energy and underpowered vocals proving to be a buzzkill while even special guest Billie Eilish couldn’t save the dayThe cliche image of Lana Del Rey – flower crown, heart-shaped sunglasses, Lolita pout –...
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The rapper and presenter, 28, on coming from a massive family, avoiding Tinder and why winning a Bafta made him want to cryLiving in temporary housing as a kid gave me character and hunger. We moved all over London: Victoria, Battersea, Swiss Cottage and Kilburn. Growing up that way made me hate the...
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Roundhouse, LondonShowcasing her debut solo album, last year’s Mid Air, the xx frontwoman escapes the elegant restraint of her band with a set full of euphoric rhythms and unambiguous hymns to her wifeRomy Madley Croft, sometimes of the band the xx, is somewhere on stage, veiled in a thick fog of dr...
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In this week's Inside Spain, we examine how the 'calima' weather phenomenon is more common than ever across the country and how the prospect of banning smoking on terraces nationwide has Spanish bar owners scared stiff.
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Chronicler of San Francisco’s now-vanished Fillmore district who studied under Ansel Adams turned his lens on his peopleDavid Johnson saved a portrait he took as a teen of his younger brother and a relative while they were growing up in segregated Florida in the 1940s.Johnson, who was the only perso...
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Expressionism, sculpture, video: the art world is so vast and varied it can be difficult to know where to start, even with its biggest names. Our writers suggest the one piece that can help you understand masters old and newOn 26 April 1937 the Basque town of Guernica was bombed by Hitler’s Luftwaff...
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Then AT&T chief Randall Stephenson says president spent most of meeting about Beijing and tech on diatribe about women and sexDonald Trump has made antipathy to China a cornerstone of his campaign to return to the White House next year, but according to a new book, he allowed another obsession,...
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Alan Bates, who has led a campaign for justice for decades, says he wants people to be held to account.
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Actor in Disney+ series Andor will appear onscreen alongside Ncuti Gatwa and Millie Gibson next yearVarada Sethu will join Doctor Who as one of the Doctor’s two companions for Ncuti Gatwa’s second series in the role, it has been confirmed.She will appear onscreen in 2025, alongside the former Corona...
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Madrid and London made 'significant progress" on Friday in talks in Brussels aimed at reaching an accord allowing free circulation of goods and people between disputed Gibraltar and Spain, the two nations said in a joint statement.
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The comedian on his rise from lockdown sensation to double Bafta nominee, approval from Stormzy and splitting apples with his bare handsMunya Chawawa is a 31-year-old comedian whose satirical online videos made him a lockdown sensation. Viral hits included Craig Covid – Staying In, a Craig David par...
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The writer, who was adopted as a baby by Scottish communists, on her life in protest, facing racism in suburban Glasgow, and why her late parents are at the heart of her new collectionThe Scottish poet and& writer Jackie Kay is listening to Jazz Record Requests on the radio when I arrive at her home...
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Following news that Spain is scrapping its golden visa scheme, we look at the nationalities most affected, when the visa is likely to be axed and whether the measure is actually going to lower rent and house prices.
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Shakira has announced an upcoming world tour during a surprise performance at Coachella 2024.
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The destructive desires of an inoffensive family man drive this subversive satire of existentialism For Jean-Paul Sartre’s protagonist in Nausea, it was a stone on the& beach that prompted overwhelming abhorrence at the nature of existence. For Rupert Thomson’s Phillip Notman, it is the beep of an e...