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You Never Know What You Will See at the Met Gala, or Yulia Volkova's First Day at Work in the State Duma
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You on the Internet vs You in Life
NB! · Monarchies · Pop Culture · Humour
I am hinting at nothing, but in the coronation photograph of George VI with his wife and daughters, which announced his monarchical course of unity and devotion to family values, Princesses Elizabeth and Margaret wore crowns from Burger King
Aristocracy · Art · Observations · Paris · People · Pop Culture
Castelbajac graffiti on rue des Beaux-Arts in Paris still intact six months on
Does anyone still remember the Marquis Jean Michel de Castelbajac? A designer from the distant past, who dressed Madonna in a coat of teddy bears and was famed for his rainbow palette and witty solutions, once even earning the title of France's king of kitsch, and who befriended
Coming Up · Cinema · Pop Culture
Tilda in two films at the Cannes Festival, Memoria and The French Dispatch
Tilda Swinton at 27 ❤️. A reminder that this year we shall see Tilda in two films at once at the Cannes Film Festival: Memoria by the independent Thai director Apichatpong Weerasethakul and The French Dispatch by Wes Anderson
NB! · Faith · Society · Pop Culture · Rome
Pope Francis I blesses the UEFA trophy held by the President of the Union of European Football Associations, Aleksander Čeferin, on 10 June 2021
In the Press · London · Observations · Pop Culture · Rome · Humour
The Daily Star comes out with a statue of Augustus bearing the England captain's face and a CAESAR MOMENT splash
Well, well... What might it signify, to portray Harry Kane as a Roman before England's match against Italy? Can the image of Kane as a statue be taken as mockery of his immobility? And is the Caesar moment, by any chance, a reference to the occasion when you
Observations · Pop Culture · Humour
I hope my analogies will not unduly trouble anyone, but judge for yourselves: the bird-catcher Papageno from "The Magic Flute", especially as played by Lucien Fugère, is the very image of Ernie the Giant Chicken from "Family Guy", locked in combat with…
I hope my analogies will not unduly trouble anyone, but judge for yourselves: the bird-catcher Papageno from "The Magic Flute", especially as played by Lucien Fugère, is the very image of Ernie the Giant Chicken from "Family Guy", locked in combat with Peter - well, let
NB! · Monarchies · Observations · Pop Culture
Yesterday was the birthday of Henry VIII of England, who, one suspects, may be the most frequently invoked ruler in popular culture, somewhere in the vicinity of Genghis Khan, King Arthur and Caesar
Moscow · Society · Pop Culture
An early vaccine recipient on vaccination as protection for loved ones and monitoring antibodies
The artistic director of the Oleg Tabakov Moscow Theatre, the actor Vladimir Mashkov, has spoken out on the introduction of QR codes for admission to cultural institutions:. "I was vaccinated as soon as the opportunity arose, I was one of the first to have the jab, and I consider
Faith · Society · Pop Culture · Rome · Humour
Mattia Villardita visits sick children dressed as film characters
Pope Francis I Strikes a Deal with Spider-Man on Reform of the Vatican. But seriously, the man in the Spider-Man costume is a genuine superhero: Mattia Villardita, who devotes all his free time away from work to visiting sick children, whom he delights by dressing up as popular