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‘Lost’ 1978 David Bowie tour film to play arenas in 2027, remastered by Moonage Daydream director Brett Morgen
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‘Lost’ 1978 David Bowie tour film to play arenas in 2027, remastered by Moonage Daydream director Brett Morgen

David Hemmings’ never-released concert film from Bowie’s 1978 world tour will be presented in a multimedia show that aims to ‘create the illusion’ that he is present on stage Almost 50 years after its original run, David Bowie’s 1978 Isolar II tour will return to arenas in 2027, billed as Stage, thanks to Moonage Daydream director Brett Morgen’s painstaking remaster of never-before-seen footage. Bowie originally commissioned David Hemmings, the Blow-Up star turned director, to film two shows centred on the “Heroes” and Low albums at London’s Earls Court arena that summer.

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City of Masks review – theatreland ghost story with female phantom of the opera out for revenge
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City of Masks review – theatreland ghost story with female phantom of the opera out for revenge

It’s a gender reversal of Phantom of the Opera with a female phantom: wildly talented composer Eve (Amanda Jiang), who died tragically in a theatre fire. Meanwhile, actor Deano Bugatti Mitchison channels Al Pacino in Scarface levels of intensity to play the revival’s director, coked-up theatre impresario Victor – surely the only director in the West End to keep a loaded gun in his desk drawer Continue reading...

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Macklemore’s Free Palestine tour review – a triumph of a show with performances from Hozier, Kneecap and more
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Macklemore’s Free Palestine tour review – a triumph of a show with performances from Hozier, Kneecap and more

3Arena, Dublin Several unannounced guests feature on the first European date of the rapper’s sold-out benefit tour, including video messages from Mark Ruffalo and Cynthia Nixon “We’d like to thank Ed Sheeran for organising this concert,” offers a member of Kneecap, one of several unannounced guests who have turned up for the first European date of Macklemore’s Free Palestine tour. The events of the last six weeks are quite something, and perhaps not what Robert Kraft, the billionaire owner of the New England Patriots, had in mind when he led efforts to pressurise Sheeran to remove Macklemore…

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G Flip and Chrishell Stause have broken up and like many in the queer community, I’m in mourning
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G Flip and Chrishell Stause have broken up and like many in the queer community, I’m in mourning

I picked up my phone and saw multiple texts asking me how I felt about the fact that … Chrishell Stause and G Flip have broken up. While I was sleeping soundly in Australia in the knowledge that love exists, Strause, from the LA “real estate” show Selling Sunset, posted a vulnerable and deeply sad video where she revealed that she and Australian drummer G Flip have parted ways after being married for several years.

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All About the Money review – confusion and compelling weirdness of wealthy leftwing heir
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All About the Money review – confusion and compelling weirdness of wealthy leftwing heir

This profile of James ‘Fergie’ Chambers, who set up a commune in rural Massachusetts and is fighting extradition from Spain, is a brave attempt to package a complex character and story For a film that dispenses a lot of backstory information via intertitles, you are left with a lot of questions when the credits finally roll. For example, how in the world did Irish film-maker Sinéad O’Shea gain access to her main subject: James Cox Chambers, AKA “Fergie”, the American heir to a multimillion-dollar fortune – whom we first meet as the founding member and bankroller of a communist community of…

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We’ve made Oxford Street traffic-free – and that’s just the start. Soon there’ll be green spaces for arts and music too
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We’ve made Oxford Street traffic-free – and that’s just the start. Soon there’ll be green spaces for arts and music too

We’ve made Oxford Street traffic-free – and that’s just the start. We’ll revive the in-person shopping experience with a transformation of the area, inspired by the John Lewis and Selfridges founders who first set up there Sadiq Khan is the mayor of London At around 8pm on Sunday evening the last car made its way down Oxford Street, marking the start of a momentous new era for our nation’s high street.

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Kane prematurely announced as Ballon d’Or winner – but he wasn’t only one
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Kane prematurely announced as Ballon d’Or winner – but he wasn’t only one

For a moment, it seemed as though Harry Kane’s dreams of winning the Ballon d’Or had come true. That was until further digging on the Ballon d’Or website revealed that other favourites to win the award, including Barcelona’s Lamine Yamal and Real Madrid’s Kylian Mbappe, had also had similar pieces written and published about them.

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Walter Koenig, actor best known as Chekov on Star Trek, dies aged 90
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Walter Koenig, actor best known as Chekov on Star Trek, dies aged 90

The actor appeared in the cult 1960s show as well as many of the films but also worked as a writer Walter Koenig, the actor known for playing Pavel Chekov throughout the Star Trek franchise, has died, his representative confirmed to the Hollywood Reporter. Koenig died at his home in north Hollywood surrounded by his daughter and niece, according to a Facebook post by Zachery McGinnis, the founder of Galactic Productions, an appearance agency that counted the actor as one of its clients.

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Ghana’s poetry industry lacks structure and recognition — Nana Asaase
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Ghana’s poetry industry lacks structure and recognition — Nana Asaase

Ghanaian poet and writer Nana Asaase says the poetry industry in Ghana lacks structure, recognition and opportunities needed to help poets grow and reach wider audiences. As the Vice President of the Poetry Association of Ghana, Nana Asaase said efforts were underway to strengthen the Poetry Association of Ghana and establish a more organised structure for the industry.

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