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It's Gibraltar, so they clearly know how to rock on. The hugely popular annual chess festival on the little spot of Britain at the mouth of the Mediterranean was called off last year because of COVID-19, and tournament sponsors had to scramble again this year because the Caleta Hotel, the longtime venue for the event, has just closed for a three-year renovation.
Swvl, the mass transportation startup, plans to offer 35% of its shares on the Nasdaq by the end of January 2022 through a merger with US SPAC Queen’s Gambit Growth Capital.
Anya Taylor-Joy explains how her roles in The Queen's Gambit and Last Night in Soho have influenced her fashion sense and style in real life.
The Obi-Wan series is a bold choice for the Star Wars franchise, which is doubling down on the divisive early ’00s prequels. But Disney+ is flying high off the success of The Mandalorian and clearly feeling cocky about giving McGregor another go. And hey, why not? Whatever anyone’s issues with The Phantom Menace, et al, you can’t really blame McGregor. Christensen is a little more of a question mark but that’ll be the fun of a new series. The show is set ten years after the events of Revenge of the Sith and will start filming next month.
‘Queen’s Gambit’ megahit is built on Lexington roots Chuck Stinnett, Special to The Gleaner Bingeing on streaming TV shows became the national pastime during the ongoing pandemic, and nothing hit it out of the park like Netflix’s “The Queen Gambit,” a period drama about a girl chess prodigy named Beth Harmon. It premiered in late October; within a month, it had become Netflix’s most-watched scripted miniseries ever with 62 million viewers. The story opens in 1950s and 60s Lexington, Kentucky, where author Walter Tevis — who wrote the novel the series is based o...