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Jamie T made his return to the live stage last night (August 20) with a last-minute, intimate gig at London’s Scala before announcing a full-scale 2026 UK tour. See what went down and tour details below. The show was announced last week, with fans reporting tickets selling out in minutes. It marked the musician’s first live performance in almost exactly two years, following a 2024 set at Portsmouth’s Victorious Festival. As Jamie T – full name Jamie Treays – walked out on stage with his band at 8.30pm, he was greeted with chants from the audience of “Jamie, Jamie, Jamie fucking…
For the first time since 2023, the state of Sinaloa will stage Independence Day celebrations in Culiacán, its capital city, incuding the traditional public Grito. Interim Governor Yeraldine Bonilla this week announced that the Grito will be celebrated in the Governor’s Palace Esplanade, declaring that preparations are already under way to resume the popular Sept. 15-16 festival and the massive celebrations that accompany it. Interim Sinaloa Governor Yeraldine Bonilla’s announcement was succinct and to the point: “There will be Independence Day celebrations!” Then she turned it personal: “I hope to see you there.” (Yeraldine Bonilla) Culiacán’s “Grito” — an…
Indian auteur Sriram Raghavan is developing a new thriller for Matchbox Shots set in the tonal zone of his 2007 film “Johnny Gaddaar,” as the Mumbai production house grows its slate on the strength of the global Netflix success of war series “Operation Safed Sagar.” “Johnny Gaddaar” was a twist-laden neo-noir heist thriller that marked Neil Nitin Mukesh’s screen debut alongside Dharmendra, and has since grown into a cult favorite. “I am personally working on a couple of subjects with them,” Raghavan tells Variety. “One is a true crime sort of thing which I am sort of adapting in my…
House Democrats on the Homeland Security Committee are calling for Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Markwayne Mullin to abandon plans to equip immigration agents with electric shock gloves and “halt this procurement before more innocent lives are lost.” U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) earlier this month published a notice of their plan to…
Once upon a time, the world of asset-backed commercial paper was interesting. Not lead-character interesting, but by funding the US subprime mortgage machine it played a major supporting role in making the global financial crisis possible.Since then it has been less interesting. In fact, setting aside its bit part in the Covid “dash for cash” that embroiled US money markets, it’s been dull. But perhaps things are changing. Some content could not load. Check your internet connection or browser settings.A new note from JPMorgan suggests that the growing ABCP issuance coincides with — and may be intimately connected to —…
Monaco won 3-2 away at Gornik Zabrze in the first leg of their Conference League play-off. Mika Biereth opened the scoring before Lamine Camara doubled Monaco’s lead after the break. Paris Brunner then restored the visitors’ advantage after the Polish side had twice reduced the deficit. Filipe Luis’s side take a one-goal lead into next Thursday’s second leg at the Stade Louis-II. In the Europa League, Benfica and Besiktas took first-leg leads against Aarhus (3-1) and Kauno Zalgiris (3-0), while Trabzonspor lost to Ferencvaros (0-1) in Mohamed Salah’s first competitive start. In basketball, France lost to Serbia (90-87), despite 10…
You’ve followed our on-the-ground reporting from the consequential 2026 Venice Biennale, running through November 22. You’ve read, I hope, our reviews of Koyo Kouoh’s posthumous main exhibition In Minor Keys, Alma Allen’s unmemorable United States pavilion, and Gabrielle Goliath’s Elegy — displayed at a church after being cancelled by the South African pavilion. You’ve engaged with our coverage of Dayanita Singh’s project at the State Archives of Venice; Arthur Jafa and Richard Prince’s hit-and-miss collaboration; an interview with Khaled Sabsabi, whose Australian pavilion was censored under pressure from pro-Israel groups and later reinstated; and much more from the international exhibition…
A new Premier League season is upon us, and among many Chelsea supporters there seems to be renewed optimism. Xabi Alonso’s appointment as manager has lifted much of the gloom that settled in the final stretch of a disastrous 2025-26 season that yielded a 10th-place finish in the Premier League table, while another summer of eye-catching transfer spending has constructed a squad with intriguing potential to do much better this time around. But as always with Chelsea, there is much more than that to discuss. Which players do they still need to sell or loan before the transfer window closes?…
Not regarded as one of the country’s top tree cities, Mexico City has begun an urban reforestation drive that aims to turn sidewalks, medians and other “gray” spaces into 1 million new shade points by 2030. The program is built around the international 3-30-300 guideline: Residents should be able to see at least three trees from each window of their homes; all neighborhoods should include at least 30% tree canopy covering; and households should have a park or green area within 300 meters, about 1,000 feet. The árbol colorín or flame tree is one of the several native species that…
After Chris Hansen claimed he was turned away from a screening A24‘s Primetime, it would appear he refused to sign a standard NDA. On Thursday, a source told Deadline that the former To Catch a Predator host was not asked to “sign away my rights” in order to see the Lance Oppenheim-helmed thriller about him, as Hansen claimed earlier this morning on Fox News’ Jesse Watters Primetime. The form is an NDA that all preview audiences are asked to sign a week in advance to view in an unreleased film, in order to prevent spoilers and protect IP. Watters reportedly…