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STOCKHOLM (AP) — Nile Rodgers, American songwriter and co-founder of the influential 1970s disco band Chic, and esteemed Finnish classical music composer and conductor Esa-Pekka Salonen won the 2024 Polar Music Prize on Tuesday.The Polar Music Prize is awarded annually to individuals, groups and institutions in recognition of exceptional music achievements. It was founded in 1989 by the late Stig Anderson, a Swedish publisher, lyricist and manager of ABBA, who established the record label Polar Music.Rodgers and Salonen will each receive prize money of one million Swedish kroner (about $95,000) in ceremonies in Stockholm on May 21.The award panel said Tuesday of the American guitarist, composer and producer: “There are few in history, if any, who have composed dance music as sophisticated and subtly arranged as Nile Rodgers,” who “turned disco and funk into an art” with his group Chic and songs like “Le Freak” and “Dance, Dance, Dance.”“In Nile Rodgers, we honor a ground-breaking pioneer whose legacy spans his…

He voiced Salacious B. Crumb, the monkey-lizard pet of Jabba the Hutt in “Return of the Jedi,” as well as Mogwai in both “Gremlins” films.

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Tom Smothers, one half of the Smothers Brothers musical comedy duo, died on Dec. 26 due to cancer. He was 86.

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BELFAST based author Michael Magee has been longlisted for a prestigious book prize for his debut novel Close to Home. The book, which tells the story of two working-class brothers in post-Troubles Northern Ireland, has been longlisted for the Swansea University Dylan Thomas Prize, it was revealed today. Magee admits his novel was inspired by his own childhood growing up in west Belfast. It won the Rooney Prize for Literature 2023 and was shortlisted for the Waterstones Debut Fiction Prize 2023. Announced this afternoon, the international longlist for the Dylan Thomas Prize features 12 books by writers from across the globe. With a £20,000 prize pot, it is currently the largest prize available to young writers. Within the longlist are authors hailing from England, Wales, Northern Ireland, Nigeria, Trinidad & Tobago, the US, Canada, and Hong Kong. The selection panel describe Magee’s work, which is one of only two debuts on this year’s list, as a book which “paints an alienating picture of post-conflict Belfast”.…

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Emmy Award nominee Sydney Sweeney (“The White Lotus”, “Euphoria”) stars in the psychological horror film Immaculate, and NEON has released the official poster today. Additionally, Immaculate has been dated for theatrical release on March 22. Stay tuned for the official trailer tomorrow (January 25). The film reunites Sweeney with director Michael Mohan (The Voyeurs), who directed from a […]

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In honor of the 80th Yartzeit of Rabbi Levi Yitzchok Schneerson, the Rebbe’s father, a new Sefer was published by Kehos written by Rabbi Dovid Dubov of Princeton, NJ. The Sefer includes a newly released letter from Rabbi Levi Yitzchok.

STOCKHOLM (AP) — Nile Rodgers, American songwriter and co-founder of the influential 1970s disco band Chic, and esteemed Finnish classical music composer and conductor Esa-Pekka Salonen won the 2024 Polar Music Prize on Tuesday.

As their new exhibition opens in San Francisco, Zanele Muholi talks about their powerful photos of queer survivors of hate crimes, couples in everyday moments, and self-portraits referencing history

Emmy Award nominee Sydney Sweeney (“The White Lotus”, “Euphoria”) stars in the psychological horror film Immaculate, and NEON has released the official poster today. Additionally, Immaculate has been dated for theatrical release on March 22. Stay tuned for the official trailer tomorrow (January 25). The film reunites Sweeney with director Michael Mohan (The Voyeurs), who directed from a […]

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HapmtonsFilm has unveiled the honorees for the 32nd annual Hamptons International Film Festival, which takes place Oct. 4-14.

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Since 1974, the international comics festival in the French town of Angoulême has welcomed the best of the world's illustrators. This year the top prize was awarded to Britain's Posy Simmonds, making…

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Matthew Rankin says he’s proud to attend this year’s Cannes Film Festival with fellow Winnipeg-born director Guy Maddin — especially since his hometown’s indie film scene often gets overlooked.

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From seeing justice done for Hillsborough to angering Winston Churchill, the Mirror's columnists have been at the leading edge of journalism for over a hundred years. Paul Routledge pays tribute.

IRELAND’S cultural community has paid tribute following the death of one of the nation’s most renowned playwrights Thomas Kilroy. The Kilkenny-born writer died on December 7, aged 89. President Michael D Higgins led the tributes following his death. “Thomas will be remembered as one of the most significant of a generation of playwrights that included Brian Friel, Tom Murphy and so many others,” he said. “It was that generation who modernised Irish theatre through his work with the Abbey Theatre, and as a ground-breaking founder with visionaries such as Stephen Rea, of Field Day Theatre Company.” A leading figure among Ireland’s creative sector, Kilroy’s ground-breaking plays included The Death and Resurrection of Mr. Roche, The O’Neill, Double Cross and The Shape of Metal. “Thomas Kilroy’s plays, both in his original work and in his adaptations, were unafraid to cross boundaries, while examining social issues, which would not have been widely considered for audiences in Irish theatre previously,” President Higgins…

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Dorothy Lichtenstein, philanthropist widow to Pop artist Roy Lichtenstein and cofounder of his eponymous foundation, died on July 4. She was 84.

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One of Andrew Breitbart’s enduring legacies is a simple yet powerful quote: politics is downstream from culture. We see this every day with liberal | Entertainment

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STOCKHOLM (AP) — Nile Rodgers, American songwriter and co-founder of the influential 1970s disco band Chic, and esteemed Finnish classical music composer and conductor Esa-Pekka Salonen won the 2024 Polar Music Prize on Tuesday.

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Sarah Paulson stars in Hulu’s upcoming horror movie Hold Your Breath, which is coming exclusively to the Hulu streaming service for the Halloween season this October. Searchlight Pictures has released a new poster today. Check it out below. Hold Your Breath premieres exclusively on Hulu October 3, 2024. Sarah Paulson, Ebon Moss-Bachrach, Amiah Miller and Annaleigh Ashford lead the cast […]

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