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Festivals
This year’s Oscar race is in its 11th hour. Timothée Chalamet’s warbling Bob Dylan is going head to head with Adrien Brody’s traumatized architect from The Brutalist for Best Actor.
But Thompson (who, at 22 seasons, is the longest-tenured cast member in the show’s history) walks through just past midnight, ready to take a victory lap after a marathon weekend
Lucio Corsi will debut at Sanremo in 2025 with “Volevo essere un duro”, a song written a year and a half ago for his next album, not initially conceived for
How do you dress to go to Sanremo? For years, a seemingly trivial question has seen dozens of different answers given by just as many artists. For some, the Ariston