A philharmonic orchestra performed to spectator-free Roman ruins in east Lebanon Sunday, after a top summer festival downsized to a single concert in a year of economic meltdown and pandemic. The Baalbek International Festival was instead stream... Read more
Rath Yatra or Chariot Festival is a Hindu festival that is held annually in Odisha, Bihar, Jharkhand, West Bengal and other East Indian states. The one that is most famous is the historic Lord Jagannath Rath Yatra that is held in Puri, Odisha in... Read more
Theaters around the nation are dark. Those who work in them are out of jobs. And even as we begin to reopen, venues designed to hold thousands face the challenge posed by social distance requirements. Can the arts survive? Among the businesses t... Read more
France’s cinema bosses fear drive-in screenings, that avoid lockdown laws, are taking away their business FRENCH cinema owners are furious as a novelty drive-in film festival is managing to steer clear of the country’s lockdown rules while they... Read more
Coronavirus pandemic has put the world into pause mode. The fashion industry as many others will certainly evolve and will know a new way to interpret fashion. The next two quarters in 2020 will probably be without any physical fashion show; man... Read more
It was one of the worst tragedies ever to strike any Scottish community and it killed scores of children. Even now, more than 90 years later, families in Paisley still talk about the Glen Cinema disaster on Hogmanay in 1929 when a smoking film c... Read more
Combine active, healthy days with nights of partying at an increasingly popular type of festival, where outdoor pursuits meet live music Keswick Mountain Festival, Cumbria 15-17 May With a view of Skiddaw from your tent, the 13th Keswick Mountai... Read more
Director: Meghna Gulzar Cast: Deepika Padukone, Vikrant Massey Rating: 3 stars (Out of 5) An urgent theme and a female lead who sheds her Bajirao Mastaani and “Padmaavat” finery and gets into the skin of a lower middle-class woman sc... Read more
Betrayal, despair and madness combine for an extraordinary production of Bellini’s rarely staged masterpiece Il Pirata at the Teatro Real in Madrid. Written when Bellini was just 26-years-old, Soprano Sonya Yoncheva casts her spell on yet anothe... Read more
An internationally recognized music festival may come and go after a few days, but what most attendees don’t see is the amount of work a team puts into the events throughout the months leading up to it. While things may not get easier with time,... Read more
