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• Christine and the Queens review – a brilliant, undeniable force

  18-11-2018 23:56
  International Centre, Bournemouth
  Despite a geographical faux pas, the French singer transformed the typically flat conference venue into a heaving nightclub where anything goes‘Portsmouth, say what!” shouts a breathless Chris, aka the artist also known as Christine and the Queens (and born Héloïse Letissier), at the start of the first night of her UK tour. There is a confused silence, a ripple of boos, a smattering of “er, Bournemouth!” but it is all quickly
  
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• Fantastic Beasts 2: 10 Times Ezra Miller Was A Bigger Harry Potter Fan Than You

  18-11-2018 16:29
  Get back to us when you've cosplayed Hedwig on a red carpet
  
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• Windrush: A Celebration review – a devastating carnival of black music

  18-11-2018 16:07
  Barbican Hall, London
  Curated by Anthony Joseph, this London jazz festival event offered a powerful mix of reggae, soca, Afrobeat, soul, jazz and the written word, with a strong undercurrent of righteous anger
  A large proportion of the British artists who have played at the London jazz festival in the past 26 years can trace their ancestry back to the Windrush generation, so it seems fitting for the festival to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the Empire Windrush’s arrival. Tonight&rsqu
  
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• From Mara Wilson To Cameron Diaz: 8 Celebrities Who Turned Their Back On Hollywood

  18-11-2018 15:26
  It's not for everyone
  
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• Geordie Shore’s Holly Hagan Destroys Troll Who Slammed Chloe Ferry’s Appearance

  18-11-2018 13:26
  The definition of a true friend
  
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• Gigi Hadid Addresses Claims That She’s Only Successful Because Of Her Parents

  18-11-2018 12:58
  Some people have argued that she's a product of nepotism
  
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• Riverdale’s Camila Mendes Blends Her Make-Up Using An Actual Pancake

  18-11-2018 12:16
  You have to see it to believe it
  
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• Lush Confirm Bath Bomb Inspired By Ariana Grande’s ‘God Is A Woman’ Music Video

  18-11-2018 11:36
  This is a stroke of genius
  
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• On my radar: Julia Holter’s cultural highlights

  18-11-2018 11:00
  The American singer on finding serenity in Blade Runner, the joys of Alice Coltrane and the best Chinese food in Los AngelesBorn in Milwaukee, Wisconsin in 1984, Julia Holter studied music at the University of Michigan and composition at the California Institute of the Arts. In 2011 she released her debut studio album, Tragedy, inspired by Euripides’s Hippolytus. Her fourth album, 2015’s Have You in My Wilderness, brought her international acclaim; its follow-up Aviary came out last
  
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• Opera to honour former slave who helped free others

  18-11-2018 10:00
  Harriet Tubman was a leading figure in the 19th-century US‘underground railroad’Harriet Tubman, who rescued hundreds of people from slavery in America and campaigned for women’s suffrage, won widespread recognition during the presidency of Barack Obama, who aimed to put her portrait on the $20 note.While that plan has stalled under Donald Trump, the former slave’s life will be celebrated in music in Huddersfield this week. Continue reading...
  
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• Fisherman’s Friends: behind feelgood film of Cornwall’s folk stars lies a tragedy

  18-11-2018 08:30
  Uplifting movie tells how the Cornish singing group hit the big time – but not of the terrible blow that came afterEarly in the new year, Fisherman’s Friends, the uplifting true story of the part-time Cornish sea shanty group that hit the big time, is coming to cinema screens amid hopes it may connect with audiences just as powerfully as other British feelgood hits such as The Full Monty and Calendar Girls.Behind the wit, warmth and energy promised in the film, which stars Daniel May
  
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