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Has the new Devil Wears Prada lost its bite?
Wintour has shrewdly positioned herself as someone game enough to embrace a caricature of herself. And the caricature is likely…
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Connie Converse was a folk-music genius. Then she vanished
She continued to work on music throughout the 1960s, but at a slower pace, while taking various jobs including a…
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The 'bizarre' story of the world's first LSD trip
Dr Albert Hoffman discovered the hallucinatory effects of LSD in April 1943 Source link
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Eight of the best films of 2026 so far
From a touching sci-fi blockbuster to a wilfully provocative comedy-drama Source link
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Why this 16th-Century masterpiece is not what it seems
In the 1930s, detailed X-ray analyses of the painting were undertaken and the unicorn discovered and restored. Later, in the…
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‘The show has lost its zeitgeisty edge’ ★★☆☆☆
Four years on, the provocative HBO drama is back, with Zendaya, Jacob Elordi and Sydney Sweeney all returning. Unfortunately, though,…
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10 of the best TV shows of 2026 so far
From an outrageous Ryan Murphy body horror to a new Game of Thrones prequel Source link
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The scientist who developed the polio vaccine
Although fewer than 1% of infections led to paralysis, the sheer scale of polio outbreaks meant that large numbers of…
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Why Chow Yun-Fat is cinema’s greatest action hero
And if Woo helped lay the foundations of modern action cinema, Chow was right alongside him, showing what the ideal…
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The genius of The Sopranos’ most shocking episode
Unexpected violence Tony’s shooting is arguably the ultimate example of how The Sopranos’ consistently surprised viewers with violence. It follows…
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