17 h. ago London Design Festival 2025: live updates from the Wallpaper* editors

London Design Festival 2025: live updates from the Wallpaper* editors  wallpaper.com

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24 h. ago Janeites unite: Austen festival in Bath celebrates 250th anniversary of author’s birth

The annual festival, now the largest and longest-running of its kind, first took place in 2001 and has since grown to a 10-day programme drawing thousands of visitors from around the world“One cannot have too large a party,” writes Jane Austen in Emma. But could she ever have predicted that more than 200 years later, balls held in her honour would be selling out in 15 minutes?This year, the largest and longest-running Jane Austen festival, held in Bath, brings together more than 3,000 fans, or Janeites as they prefer to be called, to celebrate the life and legacy of the beloved author. From balls and cream teas to festival fayres and dance lessons, for 10 days the city transforms into a living homage to Austen’s world. But what keeps modern audiences so captivated by this imagined past?A group of re-enactors enjoy afternoon tea at the Bath Bun Continue reading...

Culture

69 h. ago Tariq Ashkanani wins 2025 McIlvanney Prize at Bloody Scotland crime writing festival

Ashkanani won with his novel The Midnight King.

Events

69 h. ago A ceramicist turns a family home in an inspiring design exhibition at London Design Festival 2025

A ceramicist turns a family home in an inspiring design exhibition at London Design Festival 2025  wallpaper.com

Society

3 d. ago Ten Years: has the hit film’s dystopian vision of Hong Kong in 2025 become a reality?

In 2015, a scrappy group of film-makers tapped into the ‘anxiety of what the city would become’ under Beijing’s increasing influence. Now screening at the Hong Kong film festival UK, it resonates in new waysA taxi driver struggles to keep working as his native language of Cantonese is sidelined for Mandarin. Petty gangsters do the work of the authorities amid a violent debate about a national security law. Supporters of Hong Kong independence are jailed.In 2015, a scrappy group of Hong Kong film-makers imagined what their semi-autonomous city could look like under the increasing influence of the Chinese Communist party (CCP). Continue reading...

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3 d. ago London Design Festival should organise annual exhibition "that's free to participate in" say emerging designers

London Design Festival should organise annual exhibition "that's free to participate in" say emerging designers  Dezeen

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4 d. ago The new 2025 London Open House Festival tours to book if you love homes

The new 2025 London Open House Festival tours to book if you love homes  wallpaper.com

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4 d. ago Four talks and events hosted by Dezeen during London Design Festival 2025

Four talks and events hosted by Dezeen during London Design Festival 2025  Dezeen

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4 d. ago 2025 Stranraer Oyster Festival set to be biggest yet as organisers report record ticket sales

And adding to the excitement is the news that festival headline chef Matt Tebbutt has just been announced as the new judge on BBC’s MasterChef: The Professionals.

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5 d. ago The best local food and drink at London Design Festival 2025

The best local food and drink at London Design Festival 2025  The Times

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6 d. ago Black Isle Calling 2025: Full music festival lineup, day splits, tickets, travel details

It’s one of the last music festivals of the year.

Culture

6 d. ago Core Festival Glasgow 2025 Set Times: All the stage times, venues and ticket details for the celebration of noise

Get those earplugs out - it’s going to be a loud one.

Culture

7 d. ago Angelina Jolie breaks down in tears as she recalls her late mother's heartbreaking struggle with cancer

Angelina Jolie cried as she recalled her late mother's struggle with cancer at the 2025 Toronto International Film Festival. She stars as a woman diagnosed with the disease in Couture, which debuted on Sunday.

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7 d. ago Hedda review – Ibsen gets a Saltburn makeover in Amazon’s ill

Toronto film festival: Nia DaCosta ups the nastiness of Hedda Gabler in a stylish but over-egged adaptation with lead Tessa Thompson losing the film to a standout Nina HossHenrik Ibsen’s second-most famous play, Hedda Gabler, has been plenty messed around with in recent years. There was a much-derided stage production starring Mary-Louise Parker. There was Liz Meriwether’s sci-fi reimagining, Heddatron. And now there is Nia DaCosta’s film Hedda, a rejiggering of the narrative that places a premium on subterfuge and sexual intrigue. It sometimes lands its intended jolt, but too often mistakes arch style for profundity.That was also true of DaCosta’s Candyman sequel, an endlessly attractive film that was an otherwise confused update of the 1992 classic. Hedda fares better; it’s the work of a more assured and restrained writer-director, one who is willing to, on occasion, let visual flash take a backseat to more mechanical matters of storytelling. But there is nonetheless a recklessnes...

Events

7 d. ago London Design Festival: what to see this year, from public art to Kintsugi workshops

This year’s programme features 10 different Design Districts and more than 400 events. Whether you’re a seasoned festival-goer or a first-timer, here are some of the best bits to enjoy

Economics

8 d. ago Saint Carlo, film festivals and a colourful giant: photos of the weekend

The Guardian’s picture editors select photographs from around the world Continue reading...

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9 d. ago The 2025 Venice Film Festival is over. Here's everything you need to know

The 82nd Venice Film Festival has wrapped up, but the buzz continues

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9 d. ago Venice Film Festival, by the numbers: From standing ovations to Campari spritzes

From a record-breaking standing ovation to the ever-present Campari spritzes to even on-screen subtitles, the 2025 Venice Film Festival was a bounty of interesting numbers

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9 d. ago Photos from Venice Film Festival awards ceremony where Jim Jarmusch wins top honor

The 2025 Venice Film Festival wrapped up with Jim Jarmusch’s “Father Mother Sister Brother” taking the top prize, edging out higher-profile contenders. The film, starring Adam Driver, Vicky Krieps and Cate Blanchett, is a quietly humorous look at family relationships.

Culture

1 week ago ‘Humanity is facing a reckoning’: Venice shrugs off the glamour to take aim at politics

Stars waved as usual from the city’s water taxis, but there was a repeated focus on films that help audiences interpret a chaotic worldFor most of its 82 years, Venice has been perceived as the world’s most glamorous film festival. This year was no exception: stars including Julia Roberts, Cate Blanchett, Jude Law and George Clooney dutifully waved from canals and trooped down red carpets (although Law tripped while on a water taxi and Clooney got ill).But the films themselves struck a different note. Jury president Alexander Payne may have rebutted questions about current affairs during his opening press conference, declaring himself concerned only with discussing cinema, but cinema at Venice this year was concerned largely, it turned out, with discussing current events. Continue reading...

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