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Earlier this year, the Space exhibition centre in Stockholm, Sweden, introduced the Avicii Experience, an immersive exhibition dedicated to the life of Avicii, the world-famous Swedish DJ and dance music producer who died by suicide in 2018. In one of its rooms, visitors are greeted by a mix of bewildering strobe lights, paparazzi camera clicks, delirious audience cheers and the loud hum of aeroplane engines. It’s an effect meant to depict the dizzying realities of his life as a global superstar constantly on the move and under relentless public scrutiny. There’s nothing quite like stardom, in all its varying degrees. “Fame puts you there where things are hollow,” David Bowie mused on his single Fame back in 1975. The pressure and anxiety of fame are something artists have been grappling…
Charlie Puth has announced his third, self-titled studio album, Charlie. The How Long hitmaker, who recently professed that the internet “saved my life” after reaching a wider fan base on TikTok, has unveiled the follow-up to 2018’s Voicenotes, and has thanked fans for helping him make it online. Alongside the cover art of him leaning on a giant white box with the song titles around him, he wrote on Instagram: “This is the official artwork for my album Charlie. This album was born on the internet, and I’ve had so much fun making it in front of all of you this past year. “In 2019, I used to think that in order to be an artist, you had to hide away and talk to nobody to make your art. Turns…
REGE-Jean Page has described The Gray Man as a blend between the James Bond and Jason Bourne franchises. The Bridgerton star plays Denny Carmichael in Netflix’s big-budget spy flick and suggested the movie combines the elements of 007 and the Matt Damon-led Bourne series to make it “something tastier”. In the official production notes for The Gray Man, Page said: “There is no limit to the scope of this film. It’s a global travel adventure, but with spies, explosions, guns, falling out of aeroplanes – there’s nothing that isn’t in this movie. “It has this ‘How is this dude still on his feet?’ factor, and it has that suave suits and sophistication Bond factor. It has that hyper-real, hyper-violent Bourne factor. “It just smushes it all in and makes…
The premise of the new psychological crime drama Black Bird might be brushed off as overly fanciful, if not downright hokey, were it not rooted in actual events: a convicted drug dealer (played by Taron Egerton) befriending a suspected serial killer (Paul Walter Hauser) in prison to pry out the location of a victim’s remains in exchange for a commutation of his own 10-year sentence. (If he fails, the murderer will probably be released and continue to kill.) Concocted by the FBI, the plan is so far-fetched that it earns the immediate scorn of a respected cop (Greg Kinnear). “What you’re doing isn’t police work,” he tells the federal agent (Sepideh Moafi) co-ordinating the scheme. “It’s desperation.” Adapted by novelist Dennis Lehane from James Keenes memoir In With the Devil,…
Muldooneys’ ultra-luxury handbags and leather goods are making a comeback after a hiatus of about 10 years. The “Made-in-France” bags are inspired by the incredible story of Warrior Goddess Meenakshi, from the ancient city of Madurai in Tamil Nadu, India. The design of every series is inspired by history and legend and a destined cosmic love story. Muldooneys Paris, launched in June 2022, has all the sophisticated signature stamps of elegance, rarity, intelligence and futurism of its founder-designer, Marlene P Naicker, who first launched the brand in 2005. The front panels of the Meenakshi potli bags are decorated with 200 hand-embroidered flowers and nearly 4 000 thousand Swarovski crystals. The precious sun and moon elements have been crafted using the centuries-old technique de bijouterie: la Fonte a cire perdue, traditionally…
With beards, moustaches, and other facial hair so popular among men today, it’s quite likely your partner has at least a little scruff on his face. And although facial hair can be sexy, it can also ruin intimate moments by wreaking havoc on your skin. Grooming is the ultimate sexy. Winter air extracts moisture from our hair, which is why you may notice your hair feeling drier and coarser during the colder months. Which can ultimately lead to coarse facial hair that causes beard burn. It can affect any area of your body where a man’s face and beard comes into contact with your skin, usually when kissing. This is commonly known as “stache rash”. “Beard burn” is a skin irritation caused by hair that creates friction when it moves…
