NORTH RICHLAND HILLS, Texas – Oh goody! A Peppa Pig theme park is coming to Texas in 2024. The standalone theme park is expected to open early next year in North Richland Hills near Forth Worth. It will be the second Peppa Pig-themed park in North America — the other is in Florida. Details about … Read more
NEW YORK – “A toast to the disruptors,” Edward Norton’s tech billionaire says in Rian Johnson’s Oscar-nominated “Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery.” And why not a toast? Sunday’s Academy Awards won’t give a prize for best villain, but if they did, Miles Bron would win it in a walk. (With apologies to the cloud … Read more
SAN ANTONIO – South by Southwest, also known as SXWS, is an annual, international conference highlighting movies, music, art and anything involving creative innovation. This year, SXSW runs from March 10-19 in Austin, Texas. Here’s what you need to know to join the fun: How can you register? You can register for SXSW here. You … Read more
The Pritzker Architecture Prize — the highest honor in the field — has been awarded to British architect and urban planner David Alan Chipperfield, hailed on Tuesday for “a commitment to an architecture of understated but transformative civic presence.” Organizers called Chipperfield’s work — more than 100 projects over four decades ranging from cultural, civic … Read more
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. – A Florida prosecutor told jurors during closing arguments Tuesday that three men on trial for the 2018 slaying of rapper XXXTentacion were “predators” who waited outside a motorcycle shop to rob and shoot the rising star, escaping with $50,000. Prosecutor Pascale Achille played cellphone videos the defendants allegedly took hours after … Read more
PARIS – Colossal camellias served as the ready-to-wear altarpiece for Chanel’s sparkling, bloom-inspired fall display. Meanwhile, Miuccia Prada’s baby sister brand Miu Miu — another headline show on Paris Fashion Week’s last day – presented a study in off-kilter creativity. Here are some highlights of the fall-winter 2023-24 collections: CHANEL’S CAMELLIA It was the flower … Read more
ROME – The Vatican and Greece finalized a deal Tuesday for the return of three sculpture fragments from the Parthenon that have been in the collection of the Vatican Museums for two centuries, the latest case of a Western museum bowing to demands for restitution. The Vatican has termed the return an ecumenical “donation” to … Read more