A swathe of patriotic revellers took to the streets of Dublin to celebrate St Patrick’s Day after Covid-19 led to events being cancelled over the last two years.
Cities, towns and villages across Ireland are marking the event after the easing of coronavirus restrictions, with up to 400,000 people expected to attend the traditional parade in Dublin.
In March 2020, masses of St Patrick’s Day plans were cancelled with the onset of the global pandemic, with parades axed in Dublin
Phillip Schofield is celebrating four decades in showbusiness and ITV didn’t hold back on the celebrations as they dedicated Lorraine and This Morning to him on Monday.
The TV presenter, 59, couldn’t conceal his shock Lorraine Kelly broke the news that her show would be dedicated to his 40th year in TV, while a host of fellow celebs paid tribute to the long-standing This Morning host.
While his co-presenter Holly Willoughby, 41, and Lorraine, 62, among others shared congratulatory messages
The gathering held last June at a park in Irvine, California, was not a standard toga party. Instead of undergraduates downing beer from Solo cups, the attendees were graduate students drinking champagne from plastic jeweled goblets. Crowned with laurel wreaths, wearing togas and Roman-emperor costumes, they honored something that rarely gets commemorated: rejection. More than 100 rejections. Grants, journal articles, fellowships—you name it, they’d been denied it.
This party was one component of a larger project devised by the cognitive-science
Australia has kissed a tough 2021 goodbye and welcomed in 2022 with celebrations across the country spearheaded by the world’s biggest New Year’s Eve fireworks display on Sydney harbour.
While crowd numbers were significantly down on pre-pandemic NYE celebrations, tens of thousands were undeterred by rapidly rising Omicron case numbers and glammed up to enjoy the night after a year of restrictions and lockdowns.
Sydney organisers were determined to hold the biggest NYE display seen anywhere since the pandemic began,
Netflix’s Squid Game is without doubt the biggest show in the world right now, so it’s hardly surprising it was the go-to choice for many on Halloween.
Hollywood star Rebel Wilson and her best friend Hugh Sheridan opted to celebrate in style as characters from the hit South Korean show.
The Pitch Perfect star, along with Hugh, partied with the likes of hotel heiress Paris Hilton and singer Demi Lovato for the spooky holiday in Los Angeles.
Soooo spooky! Rebel
Lafayette, like Betsy Ross and Johnny Appleseed, is so neatly fixed in the American imagination that it is hard to see him as a human being. Betsy sews stars, Johnny plants trees, Lafayette brings French élan to the American Revolution. He is, in the collective imagination, little more than a wooden soldier with a white plume on his cocked hat. In the original production of “Hamilton,” Daveed Diggs portrayed him affectionately, with a comically heavy French accent and an amorous
