Arts & Culture

Madonna performs during a concert at the Copacabana beach in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, May 4, 2024. RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) — More than a million people thronged Brazil’s Copacabana beach for a free Madonna concert on Saturday, braving the heat to see the end of her “Celebration” w…

Dua Lipa poses for a photo to promote her new album, “Radical Optimist” on April 24, 2024 in New York. NEW YORK (AP) — Dua Lipa is floating in the ocean, the sun just beginning to set behind her. She looks strong, serene — save for the looming threat of a massive shark, fin just breaching the surfa…

Justice Smith, left, and Brigette Lundy-Paine in a scene from “I Saw the TV Glow.” NEW YORK (AP) — The filmmaker Jane Schoenbrun is walking down a path in Green-wood Cemetery in Brooklyn, looking for the pond they sat beside while working on the script to the film “I Saw the TV Glow.” Cemeteries ar…

Nicholas Galitzine, left, and Anne Hathaway in a scene from “The Idea of You.” (AP) — In the warmly charming rom-com “The Idea of You,” Anne Hathaway plays a 40-year-old divorcee and Silver Lake art gallery owner who, after taking her teenage daughter to Coachella, becomes romantically involved wit…

The photo of plumerias submitted by Mary Haze won 1st place in the Saipan category of the Marianas Visitors Authority’s “Capture the Beauty of the Marianas” online photo contest held in May 2023. MVA has announced a photo contest and a series of other events to celebrate Marianas Tourism Month in M…

Alicia Keys attends the Breakthrough Prize awards in Los Angeles, California, April 13, 2024. NEW YORK (Reuters) — Alicia Keys’ musical “Hell’s Kitchen” and 1970s rock-inspired “Stereophonic” led the nominations for the 2024 Tony awards, American theater’s …

Choreographer Polina Ivanovskaya, 22, leads a dance class at a branch of GSS K-pop studios in Moscow, Russia, Feb. 2, 2024. MOSCOW (Reuters) — A few years ago, Karina Marakshina had to explain what K-pop was when asked to describe the musical style of her Moscow dance studio. Now she says she hears…

Mike Faist, left, and Zendaya in a scene from “Challengers.” (AP) — “Challengers” is a bit of a tease. That’s what makes it fun. There is plenty of skin, sweat, close-ups of muscly thighs and smoldering looks of lust and hate in this deliriously over-the-top psychodrama. But get that image of Josh …

Mick Jagger of The Rolling Stones performs as the band kick off their 2024 Hackney Diamonds tour at the NRG Stadium in Houston, Texas, April 28, 2024. HOUSTON (Reuters) — The Rolling Stones kicked off their North America tour at a sold-out venue in Houston on Sunday, with people traveling from vari…

Bernardo Moltedo, culinary scientist in the IA area of the plant-based food company NotCo, selects spices used for their recreated veggie-based turtle soup, developed with AI at the NotCo kitchen-laboratory, in Santiago, Chile, April 19, 2024. SANTIAGO (Reuters) — It tastes like sought-after turtle…