Oscars launch fundraising drive as Academy Awards audience shrinks
The number of Americans tuning into the broadcast has fallen from nearly 44mn in 2014 to 19.5mn this year READ SOURCE...
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Hong Kong post-punk rockers Nan Yang Pai Dui on their latest album, and playing live with 2 drummers
All the members are regulars at indie music bar Bound in Sham Shui Po, Kowloon. Chau co-runs the bar, which also sells Hong Kong indie music merchandise. “We were all talking about it and said, ‘Why not a full band’?”...
How our sense of economic reality is being distorted
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for freeRoula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter.The following two sentences might seem a little surprising, coming from a journalist at a large media organisation armed with cutting-edge analytics...
Lab-grown diamonds come under the spotlight
Within months of launching her Lark & Berry jewellery brand, Laura Chavez received a letter in 2018 co-signed by the London Diamond Bourse and the National Association of Jewellers. It informed her that, in their opinion, the wording on her...
The life of Hong Kong’s ‘happy fruit’ Lydia Sum: comedian, actress and emcee, ‘Fei Fei’ did everything from the heart
As she appeared in more films Sum slowly began gaining recognition, but it was only in 1967, after joining the broadcaster TVB and appearing on its variety show Enjoy Yourself Tonight as a co-host, that she shot to stardom.At the...
Apple apologises after crushing backlash to iPad advertisement
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for freeRoula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter.Apple has apologised for an advert showing musical instruments, artistic tools and games being crushed by a giant hydraulic press that left...
Jeff Zucker expresses regret over failed Telegraph deal
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for freeRoula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter.RedBird IMI boss Jeff Zucker said he regrets not completing the acquisition of the Spectator magazine last year before being dragged into...
HBO’s Succession writer scripts new ending to Puccini’s Turandot for Washington National Opera
In the final scene, according to the original libretto, the prince kisses Turandot and then – confident he has won her love – reveals that his name is Calaf. The opera concludes amid general rejoicing.Giacomo Puccini, Italian composer of operas...
Fox hopes for US election ad boost after ‘disappointing’ primary season
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for freeRoula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter.A presidential primary season that pulled in few viewers and advertisers has disappointed Fox, chief executive Lachlan Murdoch said on Wednesday, but...
4 women who conducted at New York’s Metropolitan Opera in landmark week talk progress in a ‘very conservative’ industry
“It takes a long time for society to get comfortable with different things, and our industry is very conservative.”Alsop says it takes “a long time” for change to happen, especially in the industry she is in. Photo: Invision/APLyniv conducted Giacomo...