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A Couture Journey in Paris with 'Dolce & Gabbana – Du cœur à la main'

Marie-Christine Tayah, 07/04 18:00 - Reading : 2 minute(s)

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To visit “Dolce & Gabbana – Du cœur à la main” at the Grand Palais is to embark on a whirlwind journey through an intensely Italian scenography. The exhibition showcases over 200 unique Alta Moda and Alta Sartoria gowns, 300 handmade accessories and 130 pieces of furniture and antiques. Spanning 12,000 square feet, this all-encompassing ...

Music Industry Battles AI Deepfakes With Limited Progress

This is Beirut, 07/04 10:30 - Reading : 4 minute(s)

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The music industry is fighting on multiple fronts—through streaming platforms, in the courts, and with lawmakers—to prevent the looting and misuse of its content by generative artificial intelligence (AI). But the results so far remain underwhelming. 75,000. That’s the number of deepfakes that Sony Music says it has already requested to be ...

Bruce Springsteen Reveals Hidden Albums After Four Decades

Madeleine Cadoux, 06/04 14:00 - Reading : 1 minute(s)

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American rock legend Bruce Springsteen announced Thursday that he will release a new box set in June featuring 83 previously unreleased songs across seven albums. Tracks II: The Lost Albums is set to be released on June 27. It includes full albums recorded between 1983 and 2018, many of which were mixed but never officially published, according ...

Anna Netrebko Returns to Royal Opera House Stage

This is Beirut, 06/04 10:30 - Reading : 2 minute(s)

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Russian superstar soprano Anna Netrebko — shunned on some world stages since Moscow's invasion of Ukraine — will appear at London's Royal Opera House later this year. Netrebko, 53, will star in a production of Puccini's Tosca from September 11, marking her return to Covent Garden after a six-year absence, the Royal Opera said on its ...

Spielberg's Original 1982 E.T. Model Fails to Find Buyer

This is Beirut, 05/04 14:00 - Reading : 1 minute(s)

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An original model of E.T., created for Steven Spielberg's beloved film E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, did not find a buyer after being put up for auction, Sotheby's auction house in New York said Thursday. The piece, a little over a meter high and which had been estimated to fetch between $600,000 and $900,000, comes from the collection of Italian ...

Lifelike Kylian Mbappe Wax Figure Unveiled in London

This is Beirut, 05/04 10:50 - Reading : 1 minute(s)

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France superstar Kylian Mbappe received one of the greatest honors that England can bestow upon a sportsman from a rival nation on Friday — a lifelike waxwork at London's Madame Tussauds museum. The statue shows the 2018 World Cup winner striking a familiar pose — arms crossed and wearing France's white away jersey from last summer's European ...

First 'Avatar: Fire and Ash' Movie Footage Revealed

This is Beirut, 04/04 17:00 - Reading : 2 minute(s)

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Evil Na'vi. Giant volcanoes. Airborne boats. The first-ever footage from Avatar: Fire and Ash, the sequel to two of the highest-grossing movies of all time, was debuted at the CinemaCon event Thursday. Out this December, the film "expands the beautiful world of Pandora and introduces two new clans," explained star Zoe Saldana, from the stage of ...

'Who Believes in Angels?': Elton John Launches Boldest Album Since the 1970s

This is Beirut, 04/04 12:45 - Reading : 2 minute(s)

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The British artist Elton John is releasing his new album Who Believes in Angels? this Friday, co-written with American singer Brandi Carlile, and which he describes as his "most innovative" record since the 1970s. "This album marks a new beginning for me," said the 78-year-old singer in an interview with British radio Smooth Radio. "It’s very ...

Iconic Paris hotel Lutetia Taken over by Mandarin Oriental

This is Beirut, 04/04 10:00 - Reading : 3 minute(s)

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Situated in the center of the Left Bank area of the French capital, the Art Deco institution was opened in 1910 and owes its existence to its neighbor Bon Marche, one of the first department stores in the world. Real estate group Alrov, controlled by Alfred Akirov and his family, will retain ownership of the building. Originally baptized with the ...

Avignon 2025 Celebrates Arabic through Theater, Dance and Music

This is Beirut, 03/04 17:00 - Reading : 4 minute(s)

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Cape Verdean choreographer Marlene Monteiro Freitas will open the 79th edition of the Festival d’Avignon next July in southeastern France, in a program that gives prominence to Arabic, described as a "language of light" and "knowledge" — one that organizers intend to celebrate in response to the "merchants of hate." This major international ...

AI Grows in Anime, but Miyazaki Stays Untouchable

This is Beirut, 03/04 10:30 - Reading : 4 minute(s)

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Artificial intelligence might take over some of the work done by Japanese animation artists, but it will never match the brilliance of Hayao Miyazaki — the creative soul of Studio Ghibli — according to his son Goro, speaking to AFP. After the release of the latest ChatGPT version (GPT-4o), the internet was flooded with AI-generated images and ...

Val Kilmer, Charismatic Star of 'Top Gun' and 'Batman,' Passed Away

Marie-Christine Tayah, 02/04 14:00 - Reading : 5 minute(s)

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American actor Val Kilmer has died at the age of 65 from complications of pneumonia, as confirmed by his daughter Mercedes Kilmer to The New York Times. The actor, whose career saw soaring highs and difficult lows, had been battling the long-term effects of throat cancer since 2014, which left him without his voice but never without his artistic ...

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