Open this photo in gallery: Dancers Stephan Azulay, front left, and Tymin Keown, front right, rehearse for the Royal Winnipeg Ballet’s T’əl: The Wild Man of the Woods, which debuts April 25. Silhouetted against beams of fluorescent light shining from the ceiling of a vast studio, more than two dozen …
Read More »Emma Corrin: My West End performance as Orlando is a celebration of queer joy
Emma Corrin has described their West End production of Virginia Woolf’s novel Orlando as a “celebration of queer joy”. The actor, who played Diana, Princess of Wales in The Crown, is currently starring as the titular character at the Garrick Theatre, directed by Michael Grandage. Corrin, who identifies as non-binary …
Read More »When it comes to revealing books about the Royal Family, biographers have come up short on Queen Elizabeth
People reach for the first copies of Andrew Morton’s reissued book about the life of Diana, Princess of Wales entitled Diana, Her True Story – In Her Own Words on Oct. 3, 1997.Peter Jordan/The Associated Press Long before British royal biographer Andrew Morton wrote his famously candid and controversial Diana: …
Read More »Letters to the editor: ‘Go up to the lookout on Mont Royal, visit Jean-Talon Market when it’s packed with weekend shoppers; stroll along the waterfront in Old Montreal.’ Canadian travel tips, plus other letters to the editor for July 23
A jogger takes a break on beside Mont Royal Chalet on the Mount Royal in Montreal on Oct. 29, 2020.Andrej Ivanov/The Globe and Mail Keep your Opinions sharp and informed. Get the Opinion newsletter. Sign up today. Not as it seems Re Parents, Minor-league Associations Question Transparency Of Hockey Canada’s …
Read More »Sir Paul McCartney | Sir Paul McCartney hates misconception that he broke up The Beatles
Sir Paul McCartney hates the misconception that he broke up The Beatles. The 79-year-old musician says he has “only finally just got over” claims that he split up the band – which also featured John Lennon, Sir Ringo Starr and George Harrison – in 1969. During a talk with poet …
Read More »Queen | Queen working on new music
Queen have been “trying things out” in the studio with Adam Lambert. The remaining members of the group, Brian May and Roger Taylor, have been performing live with the former ‘American Idol’ star for a decade, but have never recorded new material with him and it seems fans will have …
Read More »Coronavirus: What I learnt in Oxford’s vaccine trial
I’m sitting in a hospital reception, and my breath is fogging my glasses. Minutes ago, I had been running through humid streets, late for my appointment. As doctors and nurses stroll past on their way to work, I’m aware that I don’t look particularly well. The last time I was …
Read More »Queen | Queen honoured with Royal Mail stamps for band’s 50th anniversary
Queen are being honoured with UK postage stamps to mark their 50th anniversary. The ‘Bohemian Rhapsody’ icons – made up of Brian May, Roger Taylor, John Deacon and the late Freddie Mercury – will be immortalised on a series of stamps from Royal Mail. The band’s collection will be issued …
Read More »Ellie Goulding says drivers who filmed lorry crash acted ‘instinctively’
Singer Ellie Goulding has said that witnesses to a crash between a lorry and car who she saw filming the incident instead of trying to help were acting “instinctively” because of social media. Last week she came to the rescue of a driver whose Volkswagen GTi was being pushed sideways …
Read More »Andy Murray’s gold postbox knocked down by car in hometown
A postbox painted gold in honour of Andy Murray’s 2012 Olympics triumph has been knocked down by a car. Pictures on social media showed the vehicle beside the postbox lying on the ground in the tennis star’s hometown of Dunblane. One eyewitness told PA the car “rolled back and knocked …
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