Alternative Entertainment

'Unbreakable': Learning From Kimmy's Relentless Optimism In The Face Of Dark Reality

It is perhaps unsurprising that Ellie Kemper and Tituss Burgess, two solar flares of comedic and ultraviolet joy as Kimmy Schmidt and Titus Andromedon on Netflix’s Unbre...

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Chris Cornell & The Grunge Gods Gone To Soon

Soundgarden and Audioslave frontman Chris Cornell died unexpectedly at age 52. Here, The Daily Beast remembers him and other grunge-rock icons. Chris Cornell is undisputedly o...

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'Augustown', A Novel Of The Sacred & The Profane In Jamaica

The richness and heft that is lost in the making of official accounts of the world is one of Miller’s favorite themes. Another of his poems speculates that a law the Bri...

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How Jimi Hendrix Set Black Artistes Stone Free

“I get a kick out of playing. It’s the best part of this whole thing, and recording too. I wrote a song called ‘I Don’t Live Today,’ and we got t...

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Artist Michal Cole Says His Work Is 'Silent Embroidered Scream' Against Global Patriarchy

UK-based Israeli artist Michal Cole says work is ‘silent embroidered scream’ against global patriarchy Few items symbolise masculine pomp and power quite like a ne...

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Unseen Footage Of The Beatles During Filming Of Help! Emerges After 50 Years

Filmed by late actor Leo McKern, who starred in the film, the clip shows the Fab Four messing around between takes during filming in Austrian Alps Unseen footage of the Beatle...

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The French Film Exploring Life, Death & Inter-conectivity

Ahead of the release of her sweeping new drama, we spoke to Katell Quillévéré about being moved by ‘E.T’, dealing with A-list actors, and the ...

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Yigal Ozeri Paints Hyper-realistic Women Living In Nature Without Malice

The reaction to Yigal Ozeri's astonishing paintings, composed of thousands of tiny brushstrokes, has two elements to it. There's an immediate hit of 'holy shit, that's not a p...

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Musician Frank Hamilton On How He Changed His Mind About Depression

As part of Mental Health Awareness Week, London-based musician Frank Hamilton writes on how his views about mental health changed when he began suffering with depression. We'r...

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Catastrophe' Makes Male Vulnerability Funny

The image of a crying man is a misandrist's dream. On Amazon's Catastrophe, however, it's an opportunity for empathetic laughs, and it might elicit some tears from the audienc...

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REVIEW: HAPPY PATEL - KHATARNAK JASOOS IS BIG ON INTENT, LIGHT ON LAUGHS

The actor-director’s spy spoof aims for absurdist satire but collapses under stere...

January 21 2026

POWERFUL PEOPLE: 55 YEARS ON, MERE APNE’S RELEVANCE

Khalid Mohamed in conversation with the indefatigable poet, lyricist, story-script-write...

January 20 2026

KALEIDOSCOPE: LUCKNOW BETWEEN PAST AND NOW

Cultures are never frozen in time, they keep moving, keep evolving.Filmmaker and writer ...

January 19 2026