
By THOMAS ADAMSON PARIS (AP) — Dior ’s menswear show arrived with a stripped-back set and a loud signal of confidence: neon-yellow wigs that read like a flag of authority planted in the …
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 01:24PMBy GIADA ZAMPANO ROME (AP) — Rome was paying its last respects to the legendary Valentino on Wednesday at the start of a two-day public viewing for a fashion designer whose high-glamour go…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 04:37AMBy COLLEEN BARRY MILAN (AP) — Ricky Martin and Hudson Williams joined a star-studded front row Monday for the first Giorgio Armani menswear runway collection under the sole creative direct…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 03:00PMBy The Associated Press Italian designer Valentino Garavani was known for his glamorous gowns and signature “Valentino red,” which were fashion show staples for nearly half a century. On…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 02:48PMBy The Associated Press Dwayne Johnson transforming into MMA pioneer Mark Kerr for “The Smashing Machine” and Louis Tomlinson releasing his third solo album are some of the new televisio…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:05AMBy BEATRICE DUPUY Ariana Grande, Teyana Taylor, Timothée Chalamet and a sea of other stars said goodbye to color at this year’s Golden Globes, opting instead for black. And many in the cr…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 04:15PMBy The Associated Press A$AP Rocky’s first full-length album in eight years, “Don’t Be Dumb,” and Matt Damon and Ben Affleck reuniting again in Netflix’s “The Rip” are some of …
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:05AMBy KIM COOK Maybe it’s a scratched-up old sideboard found at a yard sale and turned into a snazzy media console. Or a couple of well-traveled vintage trunks given a new home as bedside tab…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:30AMBy The Associated Press Returns to “The Pitt,” the Grid and music of Kid Laroi are some of the new television, films and music headed to a device near you. The first week of January brin…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:05AMBEIJING (AP) — Dressed in a red-and-white warrior costume, Peking opera actress Zhang Wanting balances on one foot on the narrow handle of a rosewood chair. She bends forward, lifts her ot…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:40AMBy CODY JACKSON DORAL, Fla. (AP) — When Fernando Dávila was 8 years old in Colombia, he failed a drawing class because he painted donkeys red. There was a reason for that: He is colorblin…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:15AMBy The Associated Press It’s the end of the year and there are fewer new streaming options headed to a device near you. But it’s a great time to catch up on some of best movies,televisio…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:15AMBy JOCELYN NOVECK NEW YORK (AP) — On any given evening as the lights come up on Act 2 of “Liberation,” Bess Wohl’s intergenerational Broadway play about a women’s consciousness-rai…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:05AMBy ADITHI RAMAKRISHNAN NEW YORK (AP) — People stop reading in adulthood for lots of reasons. But it’s never too late to turn the page on old habits and start again. Curling up with a goo…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:15AMBy JANIE HAR SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A new night-time holiday display featuring music, colors and more than a million twinkling lights in San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park is delighting chil…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 12:38PMBy The Associated Press Jennifer Lawrence playing a new mother whose behavior becomes increasingly erratic in “Die My Love” and three more “Stranger Things” episodes are some of the …
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:05AMBy The Associated Press As 2025 winds down, holiday lights are illuminating communities around the world, transforming familiar landmarks into scenes of shared wonder. From glowing waterfron…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 03:38AMBy RONALD BLUM NEW YORK (AP) — Christine Baranski was in the playground outside St. Matthew’s Church in Bedford, New York, about three years ago when she came across Matthew Guard, artis…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:15AMBy JOHN MYERS JR. and DÁNICA COTO KINGSTON, Jamaica (AP) — The instructions on Wednesday were clear: no serious, sad or long faces. And the crowd filing into a gymnasium in Jamaica’s ca…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:13PMBy FERNANDA PESCE and MARIA VERZA SAN ISIDRO BUEN SUCESO, Mexico (AP) — In the Mexican mountain town of San Isidro Buen Suceso, Virginia Verónica Arce Arce begins her days as she has for …
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:30AMBy ALMUDENA CALATRAVA BUENOS AIRES (AP) — At a dance hall in the heart of Buenos Aires, 14 men in elegant dark suits sat at separate tables while across the room, 14 women in dresses and h…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 07:00AMBy The Associated Press Marlon Wayans starring in the Jordan Peele-produced football thriller “Him” and the iHeartRadio Z100’s Jingle Ball 2025 featuring Conan Gray, Ed Sheeran, Jelly …
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:05AMGENEVA (AP) — Switzerland’s long-celebrated yodeling has received a response from the U.N. cultural agency: The Alpine tradition of chant and song is indeed worthy of classification in a…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:05AMDozens of pieces from the collection are expected to fetch at least $50 million.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 01:26PMThe sale set records for highest selling piece of memorabilia from the film franchise.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 01:22PMBy MOSA’AB ELSHAMY MARRAKECH, Morocco (AP) — The carpet outside the 2025 edition of the Marrakech International Film Festival was unfurled in its usual red, but the stars who walked acro…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 07:33AMBy DÁNICA COTO and EVENS SANON PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Compas, a beloved Haitian music and dance genre inspired by merengue and infused with percussion, made UNESCO’s cultural heri…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:15AMBy HILLEL ITALIE NEW YORK (AP) — Melanie Moore, who runs the Ohio-based Cincy Book Bus, is one of hundreds of booksellers who received a pleasant surprise for the holidays: a check for $50…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:05AMBy The Associated Press The joy of being there, of prayer and play, a dance in a bomb shelter, a kiss in a flood and a hug in the mud, kids rolling tires and scooting among the ruins of Gaza…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 03:02AMBy HELENA ALVES AMADORA, Portugal (AP) — One mural, “No Poverty,” shows a Black woman tenderly braiding the hair of a white woman — a snapshot of family bonds that grew out of diffic…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:20AMBy HILLEL ITALIE NEW YORK (AP) — A memoir by Eric Dane, the “Grey’s Anatomy” and “ Euphoria” actor who has been diagnosed with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, will be published ne…
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