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Wexford Festival Opera are holding Pop-Up events in the form of bite-sized opera performances by Wexford Factory artists, filmed wherever they are in the world and shared online on Sundays at 5pm. On 31 January, the guest performer will be the renowned soprano Celine Byrne in a mini-celebration of Puccini. In a collaborative performance with dancer Sara Catellani, Celine will perform arias from la Boheme, Madame Butterfly and Tosca. The Sunday Pop-Up series is part of the ongoing work of Wexford Festival Opera in supporting the continuing professional development of artists. All the events ar...

BY ALEX LEADBEATER JAN 28, 2017 One of the most popular ways to measure how well-balanced a film is in terms of gender representation is the Bechdel Test. Named after Alison Bechdel, the comic artist who created it, it features three simple classifications that surprisingly few movies meet: the movie has to have (1) at least two women in it, (2) who talk to each other, (3) about something besides a man. It’s not a perfect measure, but does work as a good metric to see how cinema in general is treating female characters; in 2016, over half of the year’s highest grossing films passed the te...

When a trio of acting legends tread the boards at the Glasgow King's IF YOU went to see war drama The Long and the Short and the Tall when it came to Glasgow in August 1959, you were part of a theatrical treat. Not one, not two but THREE now legendary British actors appeared in the King’s Theatre production of Willis Hall’s play about a patrol of army officers during the Battle of Malaya in 1942. Michael Caine, Frank Finlay and Terence Stamp were all on stage, playing British Army officers holed up in an abandoned hut in the middle of the Malayan jungle as the patrol’s radio malfu...

Ducky, Dr Dre and Snoop Dogg: NCIS hero David McCallum was a gangsta rap star NCIS hero David McCallum became an unlikely chart star 20 years ago at the age of 67 with the godfather of gangsta rap. David McCallum, Dr Dre and Snoop Dogg. NCIS hero David McCallum became an unlikely chart star 20 years ago at the age of 67 with the godfather of gangsta rap. Dr Dre included a swaggering sample from McCallum’s 1966 instrumental record The Edge on his 2000 single The Next Episode which featured Snoop Dogg. McCallum, now 87, who has family links to Macduff, played Russian spy Illya Kuryakin in the...

Much of a nonstory this is, i harken back to mitt romney in that debate where he made it very clear who the enemy was and where you could find him. and so it stands in stark relief right now to your point that the president wants to talk about anything else but this. but the thing about donald trump is that he cannot answer the question when he knows it's a lie. so that fox interview when judge pirro asked him, were you or are you an agent, he went everywhere else around it -- >> explain why he can't answer the question? >> because for him, the truth is there. he knows it's right there. so to ...