Month: November 2022

Even with one fewer show on the Broadway boards, and overall attendance at the 33 productions down a smidge from the previous week, Broadway box office was up 22% during Thanksgiving week, scoring a plump $37,475,773 due to plumper holiday ticket prices. Not coincidentally, average ticket price was up 22% from the previous week, hitting
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Update (November 30th): Spotify Wrapped 2022 has arrived. View yours here. The most wonderful time of the year for Spotify users is here. Prepare for your timelines to be bombarded with Spotify Wrapped lists, which dropped on Wednesday (November 30th), showcasing everyone’s favorite artists, songs, and albums from the past year. If you’re trying to
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There are plenty of lively and good-value bars at and around the bottom of Passo Tonale’s slopes. But don’t expect anything too sophisticated or indeed as wild as in some other resorts. For further Passo Tonale inspiration, see our guides to the resort’s best accommodation and restaurants. La Baracca At the foot of the Vittoria chairlift,
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Sam Heughan, known to legions of fans as Jamie Fraser in the popular TV show based on Diana Gabaldon’s Outlander series, recently decided it was time to walk the rigorous West Highland Way in Scotland, a long-distance hiking trail that runs from north of Glasgow to Fort William in the Scottish Highlands. He wanted a
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Are you a pun lover or are you a grinch? I am the first, and even if it is a groaner —like the worst imaginable pun possible — I am still going to appreciate it because of the way language can tell several stories at one time. It should come as little surprise then that
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The British Council has refused to re-employ a £70,000-a-year senior manager accused of sexual misconduct. The organisation was ordered to re-engage Paul Sellers, the former head of the British Council in Italy, after an employment tribunal found that he had been unfairly dismissed.  But a British Council spokesperson told Third Sector it had appealed the
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Love Actually has become a holiday viewing tradition for many and stands as one of the greatest romantic comedies of all time, thanks to its ensemble cast, multiple interconnecting storylines, and eternally quotable dialogue. There’s one scene that lives in infamy probably more than any other, however, and that’s the one where David the Prime
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In The Gentleman’s Book of Vices, Jess Everlee’s soul-stirring debut, a fan obsessed with an illicit book finds true love with his favorite author. Handsome Charlie Price is a respectable accountant by day and a “finely dressed and finely drunk” rake by night. When his exploits land him under a mountain of crushing debt, he
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The Charity Commission has closed a two-year inquiry into Muslim Aid after trustees completed work to improve governance and financial controls. But the regulator criticised the charity for missing earlier deadlines to make those changes, arguing that it could have avoided suspected fraud and serious reputational damage if it had acted sooner. The inquiry report
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The LGBTQ social networking platform Grindr puts on a public show outside of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) as the company goes public following its merger with special purpose acquisition company (SPAC) Tiga Acquisition Corp. on November 18, 2022 in New York City. Spencer Platt | Getty Images Traders, bank workers and tourists weren’t
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Death, taxes, and films that bomb at the box office. Such is life in Hollywood, and at the end of the day, the estimated $147M loss which is expected for Disney Animation’s Strange World isn’t spilt milk to cry over for the entertainment conglomerate. The bombing of the Thanksgiving family title, with a $28M global
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In a time when you can order groceries and grannie’s Christmas presents at the click of a button, you should be able to wear your favorite boots without having to deal with sore feet and blisters, right? Totally—but you’ll still need to be clever with your sartorial choices. And how do you do that? The
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Digital Entertainment Asset (DEA) co-founders and co-CEOS Kozo Yamada (left) and Naohito Yoshida (right) seal their business alliance with TV Tokyo Corporation President and Representative Director Ichiro Ishikawa (centre). Web3 — the catchall term for decentralized internet services, including cryptocurrencies, blockchains and NFTs — has taken the finance and tech world by storm, but elsewhere
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