16 Gifts for Women Friends 2023

16 Gifts for Women Friends 2023

As POPSUGAR editors, we independently select and write about stuff we love and think you’ll like too. If you buy a product we have recommended, we may receive affiliate commission, which in turn supports our work. Best friends are like soulmates. They are there for you when you laugh and cry, and they’re always the … Read more

Frist Art Museum Presents Woodblocks, Prints, and Mixed-Media Works by LaToya M. Hobbs

Frist Art Museum Presents Woodblocks, Prints, and Mixed-Media Works by LaToya M. Hobbs

Carving a New Tradition: The Art of LaToya M. Hobbs January 26–April 28, 2024  NASHVILLE, Tenn., Dec. 13, 2023 /PRNewswire/ — The Frist Art Museum presents Carving a New Tradition: The Art of LaToya M. Hobbs, an exhibition of recent woodblock prints and mixed-media portraits from the Arkansas-born, Baltimore-based painter and printmaker. Organized by the Frist Art Museum … Read more

Hong Kong-Raised British Painter Launches ‘Silent Protest’ Show in London

Hong Kong-Raised British Painter Launches ‘Silent Protest’ Show in London

London —  In 1979, British painter Martin Lever was only 9 years old when he moved to Hong Kong because his father was employed as a surveyor in the Hong Kong Housing Department. He tells VOA’s Cantonese service that growing up in the multicultural city gave him a very different upbringing, one he is grateful … Read more

50 years ago, Norman Lear changed TV with a show about a working-class Black family’s struggles and joys

50 years ago, Norman Lear changed TV with a show about a working-class Black family’s struggles and joys

I loved watching Norman Lear’s trailblazing television shows when I was growing up in Dalzell, South Carolina, in the 1970s. “Good Times,” my favorite, debuted on Feb. 8, 1974 – nearly 50 years ago. CBS aired the show about the daily struggles and triumphs of the working-class Evans family until Aug. 1, 1979. Lear, who … Read more

5 of Hong Kong actress Kathy Chow’s most beloved screen roles, after the TV and film star dies aged 57

5 of Hong Kong actress Kathy Chow’s most beloved screen roles, after the TV and film star dies aged 57

Actress Kathy Chow Hoi-mei, who died in a Beijing hospital aged 57 from an unknown illness on December 11, was best known for her many roles in TV drama series produced not only in Hong Kong but also Taiwan and mainland China. A descendant of the Guwalgiya, a prominent Manchu clan, Chow was born and … Read more

Media Freedom Act: MEPs tighten rules to protect journalists and media outlets | News

Media Freedom Act: MEPs tighten rules to protect journalists and media outlets | News

In its position on the European Media Freedom Act, adopted by 448 votes in favour, 102 against and 75 abstentions on Tuesday, Parliament wants to oblige member states to ensure media plurality and protect media independence from governmental, political, economic or private interference. MEPs want to ban all forms of interference in the editorial decisions … Read more

Nicki Minaj set to launch her first solo tour in 8 years in the Bay Area

Nicki Minaj set to launch her first solo tour in 8 years in the Bay Area

Nicki Minaj performs onstage during the 2023 MTV Video Music Awards at Prudential Center on September 12, 2023 in Newark, New Jersey.  Mike Coppola/Getty Images for MTV The Barbz haven’t seen their queen, Nicki Minaj, on a solo tour since the Obama administration. That’s about to change, and when it does, Bay Area fans will … Read more

The King Tut–Inspired Gemstones Even Museums Can’t Afford

The King Tut–Inspired Gemstones Even Museums Can’t Afford

Though it’s not always considered high art (unfairly relegated, like fashion, to a lower rung), the demand is almost equally high for Egyptian Revival pieces. To land a Van Cleef & Arpels pictorial bracelet, a flat bracelet designed between 1923 and 1925 with sphinxes, scarabs, and lotus flowers, for example, Zapata said “a million dollars … Read more