They are snapshots of a bygone age when foreign holidays were adventurous, exotic and simply had to be recorded with a postcard to home.
Millions of beach, street, hotel, matador and flamenco dancer postcards washed through the British postal system every summer as tourists discovered the Spanish Costas and revelled in sun, sangria and souvenirs in the 1970s.
A treasure trove of postcards sent from Spain has just emerged and with it a fascinating glimpse of a culture in which
Olivia Rodrigo dropped her latest video for her newly released song Bad Idea Right? in the early morning hours of Friday.
The video for the single, which is set to be released on her upcoming sophomore studio album Guts, opens with at Rodrigo looking miserable at a boisterous house party filled with her friends.
After she gets a call from an unseen ex-boyfriend, her night turns into a hellish experience as she hitchhikes through a rainstorm to hook up with
Time behaves erratically at the Reeve, the cliff-top mansion in Kate Collins’s A GOOD HOUSE FOR CHILDREN (Mariner, 325 pp., $30), a feminist gothic that evokes Shirley Jackson’s “The Haunting of Hill House.” Set in Dorset, England, the novel follows two different groups of the house’s inhabitants at different moments in time: Orla and Nick and their two children in 2017; and the nanny Lydia, her grieving widow boss, Sara, and Sara’s four children in 1976.
Orla’s gut warns
Am Sonntagnachmittag spielte der Komponist und Pianist Nicholas Britell in der Walt Disney Concert Hall als überraschende Zugabe zu seinem Filmmusikkonzert der Los Angeles Philharmonic ein Rachmaninoff-Riff. Die Menge jubelte mit sofortiger Freude, so erkennbar ist sein Thema zur HBO-Serie „Succession“.
Drei Stunden später versammelten sich 80 Mitglieder des Los Angeles Master Chorale auf der Bühne, um eine „All-Night-Vigil“ durchzuführen. Die Mahnwache war die der russisch-orthodoxen Kirche in feierlichem Gottesdienst von der Abenddämmerung bis zum Morgengrauen. Die Musik, das Publikum,
