Your Hong Kong weekend food guide to the best places to eat from November 29 to December 1

Your Hong Kong weekend food guide to the best places to eat from November 29 to December 1

Clockenflap takes place this weekend, but for anyone who does not plan on attending the music and arts festival on the Central harbourfront on Hong Kong Island, read on for our dining recommendations for the weekend. 1. Sabatini’s white truffle menu It really is the most wonderful time of year when truffles, the “white diamonds” … Read more

Dress code: How a Winnipeg codebreaker cracked one of the ‘world’s top unsolved messages’

Dress code: How a Winnipeg codebreaker cracked one of the ‘world’s top unsolved messages’

University of Manitoba research computer analyst Wayne Chan holds a copy of the Silk Dress cryptogram. (Trevor Brine/CBC) “Bismark Omit leafage buck bank.” That seemingly random string of words appears in something called the Silk Dress cryptogram, 23 handwritten lines on two sheets of crinkled paper that were discovered in a hidden pocket of a Victorian-era dress … Read more

Sexy movies are a hard sell to Gen Z. Can Poor Things change that?

Sexy movies are a hard sell to Gen Z. Can Poor Things change that?

While speaking with reporters about his film Poor Things earlier this fall, director Yorgos Lanthimos took a moment to address the spicy elephant in the room. “Why is there no sex in movies anymore?” the Greek filmmaker wondered. He was being somewhat facetious — his latest feature stars Emma Stone as a dead Victorian woman … Read more

Hayao Miyazaki tops North American box office for the first time with The Boy and the Heron

Hayao Miyazaki tops North American box office for the first time with The Boy and the Heron

For the first time in Hayao Miyazaki’s decades-spanning career, the 82-year-old Japanese anime master is No. 1 at the North American box office. Miyazaki’s latest enchantment, The Boy and the Heron, debuted with $12.8 million US, according to studio estimates. The Boy and the Heron, the long-awaited animated fantasy from the director of Spirited Away, My Neighbor … Read more