Entertainment News
9 Dec
Singer-songwriter India Naia is of German-Algerian heritage and spent some of her childhood in France before moving to Florida, where she grew up listening to the "crème de la crème" of hip-hop and R'n'B. Several years ago she moved to Paris, where she began writing music. She popped by Arts 24 to tell Marjorie Hache about her debut EP "Globe".
8 Dec
A new study showed people who ate a vegan diet lost weight compared with those eating an omnivorous diet.
8 Dec
Embraced as a modern holiday classic after its release in 2003, British romantic comedy “Love Actually” has since been chided for its lineup of all-heterosexual couples and sexist storylines. FRANCE 24 critic Lisa Nesselson makes an argument for the film's enduring magic, in part thanks to its incredible cast.
7 Dec
Traditionally, "Black Piet" has accompanied St. Nicholas in the run-up to Christmas, handing out sweets in blackface and a curly wig. Nowadays, many see this figure as symbolizing a racist and colonialist mentality.
4 Dec
Spotify, a digital music service, could be seeking to boost its profitability with the move. The Stockholm-headquartered company has never posted a full-year net profit.
3 Dec
France will ban smoking on beaches and public parks, the country's health minister said on Tuesday, presenting a series of measures as the government looks to prevent 75,000 tobacco-related deaths per year. The measures — part of a government plan to combat smoking — aim to create a “tobacco-free generation by 2032.”
3 Dec
NFTs were a pandemic curiosity, with the digital assets experiencing a massive rise in value before an equally dramatic crash. Were they simply fool's gold or could they rise again?
3 Dec
Five years ago, reports of sexual harassment and assault in Bollywood sent shockwaves through the industry. But numerous women have told DW that little has actually changed.
2 Dec
American choreographer and dancer Trajal Harrell chats to Dheepthika Laurent about his career retrospective at Paris' Festival d'Automne. They also talk about voguing, the focus of his seminal eight year project, Twenty Looks or Paris is Burning at the Judson Church, and his current field of interest: Japanese dance style Butoh.
2 Dec
Australian director Rolf de Heer chats to Lisa Nesselson and Dheepthika Laurent about his first feature film in a decade, "The Survival of Kindness", which was shot in the Australian outback. Also: German director Wim Wenders' Japanese-language film "Perfect Days" shines a spotlight on a toilet cleaner and Disney's latest animation "Wish" comes out in France.
2 Dec
In this edition of arts24's weekly music show, Jennifer Ben Brahim is joined by French singer-songwriter Edouard Bielle. His look and sound takes us back to the 1970s, inspired by Christophe and Etienne Daho. He's just dropped his debut EP "Loverdose", a record that delves into the addictive nature of love.
2 Dec
Irish writer Paul Lynch won the 2023 Booker Prize on Sunday for his novel “Prophet Song,” the story of a family and a country on the brink of catastrophe as an imaginary Irish government veers towards tyranny.