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Snap, despite continuing to grow its overall Snapchat user base and more than doubling the number of active advertisers in the second quarter of 2024, hit a speed bump with the earnings report and Q3 outlook — which missed Wall Street targets. Snap shares were down more than 25% in early trading Friday to under

Support Independent Arts Journalism As an independent publication, we rely on readers like you to fund our journalism and keep our reporting and criticism free and accessible to all. If you value our coverage and want to support more of it, consider becoming a member today. Scientists say they have discovered the pigment that put

Filling Li Cunxin’s shoes at Queensland Ballet seems to have been harder than anticipated as the company announces the shock departure of new artistic director Leanne Benjamin. After much fanfare and high hopes, Benjamin is finishing up with the company on August 2 in a move that will send shock waves through the local arts

If you have never heard of the phenomenon that is tabletop role-playing games (or TTRPG to insiders), it may come as a shock that this low-fi, fantasy-based leisure activity is not the niche pastime you may imagine it to be. While there are certainly elements of nerdy appeal to TTRPG (as depicted in sitcoms like

Massachusetts is home to many “firsts” in the U.S.: the first public park, the first university, and even the first basketball game. Soon, it might also boast the first state-appointed choreographer laureate. The honorary position was first proposed by state senator Rebecca Rausch in legislation filed last year. State senator Patrick O’Connor proposed a similar

View image in fullscreen When Putin invaded my country, I couldn’t take up arms – I raised my conductor’s baton instead Keri-Lynn Wilson We created a new kind of orchestra to fight for Ukraine all over the world Keri-Lynn Wilson is a Canadian-Ukrainian conductor and founder of the Ukrainian Freedom Orchestra What is the role

BBC Cardiff Singer of the World has been postponed until 2027 while its usual city centre venue, St David’s Hall, remains closed. The competition will instead stage a gala concert in October 2025 as part of the Wales Millennium Centre’s Llais international music festival in Cardiff. It will feature previous winners and competitors from the

View image in fullscreen The music industry is engineering artist popularity – listeners are right to be angry Shaad D’Souza Numerous tactics, including payola-like deals on Spotify, are promoting artists people haven’t chosen to hear – but the industry refuses to discuss it For months, one question has been plaguing pop fans: why is Spotify

View image in fullscreen Interview ‘I didn’t want to be swallowed up’: actor Josh Hartnett on swapping Hollywood for Hampshire Stuart McGurk On track for megastardom, the actor turned down the part of Superman (twice) and turned his back on Hollywood. Now living in rural Hampshire, he talks about choosing fulfilling projects, his hippie childhood,

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View image in fullscreen Streaming: the best films set in Paris The Olympic host city is one of cinema’s favourite places, whether real or romanticised, in films ranging from Breathless to Ratatouille and La Haine The Paris Olympics are being held at the very time of year when the City of Light is least desirable

Blades of grass. Slices of kiwi. Swim trunks. A tricked-out Toyota Celica. A campaign placard for a local election. A garbage truck. The handlebars of an electric scooter. A can of lime seltzer. A pair of safety cones holding someone’s parking spot on a residential street. A wet tennis ball left out in the rain.

When setting up my Sonos home theater system, I had a persistent problem. I was trying to add a Sonos wireless subwoofer to my network, but according to Sonos’ mobile app, the Sub was nowhere to be found. The app would throw a “Could not connect” message, or—even weirder—show me that I was trying to

Like existentialism, surreal, and (sorry, Alanis Morisette) ironic, the term “Orwellian” is ubiquitous and often misused. It’s typically applied to government surveillance or totalitarianism in general. This is understandable, given that British author Eric Arthur Blair, better known by his pen name, George Orwell, is likely best known for his novel 1984, which generations of

Adam Busiakiewicz A post on X spotted randomly by an art historian has led to a portrait of King Henry VIII – hanging in a West Midland council hall – to be identified as a famous missing artwork. Adam Busiakiewicz, who works as a consultant for famous auction house Sotheby’s, said that when he saw

When Kamala Harris was confirmed as the new Democratic party nominee, a host of celebrities rushed to endorse her – but one has had significantly more attention than the others. Singer Charli XCX endorsed Harris in her signature minimalist way by posting “kamala IS brat” on X. The post went viral almost instantly, with millions

Show Caption Hide Caption 50 boats parade on Seine river in Paris Olympics test run A fleet of 50 boats paraded down the Seine river in a test run for the opening ceremony of the Paris Olympics. As the world’s attention turns to France for the 2024 Paris Olympics, performers for the opening ceremony called

If you’re planning to tune in to the Paris Olympics, you probably aren’t just looking forward to the feats of sporting excellence – you’ll be hoping to catch the cultural spectacle of the opening ceremony, too. These flashy events, which kick off each games, aim to tell fresh stories about the host city and country,

The US Justice Department has reached an agreement with Jasmine Loo Ai Swan, the former general counsel of Malaysia’s sovereign investment development fund (1MDB), to recover a $1.27 million drawing by Pablo Picasso that had sold in May 2014 at Christie’s. The original forfeiture complaint filed by federal prosecutors last August alleged that Loo purchased

Many galleries in Paris’s Saint Germain des Près area, one of the city’s major art hubs, were unexpectedly forced to close on Thursday, due to security measures put in place for the upcoming Olympic Games’s opening ceremony taking place next week. Interviewed by ARTnews, dealers said that clients had no way of getting to these