80s music stars give backing to anti-fascist gig in Doncaster

Stars of the 1980s music scene have given their backing to an anti-fascist gig taking place in Doncaster this weekend, with organisers saying: “Racists are the tiny minority.” The Love Music, Hate Racism concert featuring a host of bands will take...

Jazz legend Jack DeJohnette dies at 83

FILE - American jazz drummer, pianist, and composer Jack DeJohnette performs at the Five Continents Marseille Jazz festival, in Marseille, southern France on July 18, 2018. (AP Photo/Claude Paris, File)

The Glenlivet launches Cask Master’s Collection with pop-up at Changi Airport

Pernod Ricard Global Travel Retail (PR GTR) and The Glenlivet, Speyside single malt, have launched The Glenlivet Cask Master’s Collection, a new aged range of 14, 16, and 19 Year Old expressions celebrating the mastery and vision of Cask Master...

On the rise in Germany, far-right AfD deepens ties to Trump administration

Audio By Carbonatix By Sarah Marsh, Paul Carsten and Maria Tsvetkova BERLIN/NEW YORK (Reuters) -Germany’s far-right AfD party, long shunned at home, is courting support in Washington, leveraging ties to MAGA personalities who have risen to senior...

Marist High School Band Announces Central Europe Tour for 2027

Cheers erupted in the Marist High School band room when students learned they would be taking their next major performance tour to Central Europe in the spring of 2027. Andrew Creagh, Band Director at Marist and an alumnus from the Class of 2004,...

How Germany’s Holocaust remembrance culture kicked off a democratic crisis

WEIMAR, Thuringia, Germany — Walking through Weimar, Germany, the legacy of the Holocaust seems inescapable. Stolpersteine — German for “stumbling blocks” — are placed outside the homes of people killed during the Shoah, essential evidence of...

Culture How Germany’s Holocaust remembrance culture kicked off a democratic crisis Germany has made remembering the Holocaust central, but that commitment has been strained by Oct. 7 and the rise of the far-right. What happens if Germany loses its…

By Jake Wasserman October 30, 2025 Research for this article was made possible with the support of the Heinrich Böll Foundation, Washington, DC. WEIMAR, Thuringia, Germany — Walking through Weimar, Germany, the legacy of the Holocaust seems...

Media Briefing: Overheard at the Digiday Publishing Summit Europe, October 2025 edition

This week’s Media Briefing looks at what publishers attending the Digiday Publishing Summit Europe had to say about the existential threat of site traffic losses and AI search tools encroaching on their businesses. Publishers have lost hope that...

National Sports Dan Burn says Newcastle must learn to win ugly again The Magpies turned in a dreadful display in a 3-1 Premier League defeat at West Ham. 26 minutes ago RSS, Syndicated Content

By Damian Spellman, PA Dan Burn has warned Newcastle they will have to rediscover their talent for the “ugly” side of the game if they are to compete on all fronts this season. The Magpies head into Wednesday night’s Champions League clash with...

5 Unusual State Laws About Death And Burials

For many, disposition of a body boils down to burial or cremation — that's it. In fact, the National Funeral Directors Association reports that cremation has surpassed burials in the United States as the most common body disposition method,...

4 Underrated Songs From the Incredible Catalog of British Pop Legends Squeeze

Hey, Rock and Roll Hall of Fame voters, are you listening? How about some consideration for Squeeze? Influential, consistent, long-running, flat-out brilliant: This British band deserves to be there. Don’t believe us? Here are four songs from deep...

Enjoy the culture of Italy this weekend

By Judy Wilson | Associate Editor Deerfield Beach – A two-day celebration of the culture of Italy with wine stomping and spaghetti eating contests, beach bocce, and homemade pasta takes place this weekend at the Italian Festival on Ocean Way. With...

‘Four Winters’ documents the thousands of European Jews who fought the Nazis as partisans during World War II

An explosion rocks the Eastern European forest landscape as a boxcar slides down a hill. This is no accident. It’s an act of anti-Nazi sabotage by Jewish partisans during World War II. According to the film “Four Winters,” more than 25,000 Jews...

Sweden meets LA: jazzahead! announces eye-catching Grand Opening concert for 2026 with KNOWER and the Norrbotten Big Band

Mike Flynn Thursday, October 30, 2025 Things are gearing up for a bumper edition of the European jazz summit with big names set to get the 2026 edition going in style Bremen is set to welcome a spectacular edition Jazzahead! headliners the...

New poetry: Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin; Enda Wyley; Gregory Leadbetter; and Rosamund Taylor

“I must start at the start, at the white page in my mind,” Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin wrote in Borders, from The Girl Who Married the Reindeer (2001), and throughout her New Selected Poems (Gallery, €14.50pb, €22.50hb) we encounter evidence of...

Derry Halloween markets and music set to continue into Saturday

Derry Halloween will continue into the weekend, it has been confirmed, with some Legenderry food, markets and entertainment continuing in the city centre throughout Saturday. On Thursday evening, the decision was taken to cancel outdoor elements...

"Embarrassing moments": SA woman relives unforgettable Ariana Grande, Cynthia Erivo encounter

Actress Tricia Mpisi shared the "embarrassing" moment that occurred in front of Hollywood stars Ariana Grande and Cynthia Erivo She explained that after a glass of champagne fell on her head, the two actresses had no problem helping her in her...

Ghana turns up the volume: Apprise Music takes the spotlight at WOMEX

In the vibrant corridors of the global music industry, few events command the same magnetism as WOMEX — the World Music Expo. Every year, thousands of musicians, producers, managers, labels, and cultural tastemakers from across continents converge...

Paul McCartney recalls final phone call with John Lennon before his ‘horrific’ murder

Paul McCartney will never forget the moment he learned John Lennon was murdered. “It was just too crazy,” McCartney, 83, wrote in his new oral history book, “Wings: The Story of a Band on the Run,” about finding out from his manager “early in the...

Bay Area arts: 11 shows and concerts to catch this weekend

From classic movies with live music to new tunes from Vampire Weekend and a Grateful Dead Celtic band, there’s a lot to see and hear this weekend in the Bay Area. Here’s a partial rundown. Classical picks: Hitchcock + orchestra; New...