Hong Kong will hand out 500,000 air tickets to bring in much-needed visitors as part of a global publicity campaign unveiled on Thursday.
The city’s leader John Lee announced the giveaway at the launch of the Hello Hong Kong campaign at a briefing, saying it was “probably the world’s biggest welcome ever.” Lee highlighted a number of events coming up including the …
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The contentious debate over TikTok’s future reached a new peak on Wednesday after the Biden Administration threatened a nationwide ban on the popular video-sharing app unless its Chinese owner promised to sell its stake in the company, TikTok confirmed to TIME. The recent divestiture demand was first reported by the Wall Street Journal.
The apparent ultimatum by the Committe…
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The Victoria and Albert Museum (the V&A) in London is looking to hire a Taylor Swift superfan to advise on Swiftie fan culture. The V&A, named after Queen Victoria and Prince Albert, put out a job advertisement for five “superfan advisor” roles, including one that specializes in the fandom of Swift ahead of the European leg of her Eras tour, which will begin on May 9.
The oth…
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My cover shoot for TIME magazine was quick. I remember it was in the back room of a studio after a private showing for Valentino that he held for some of his more prominent clients. I wore one dress for that, and then I was whisked away to the shoot, put on a Valentino sweater, and posed for photographer Francesco Scavullo in front of a white sheet draped over a wooden table against a white wal…
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A new Instagram page is using AI to make parodies of Republicans attempting to push anti-LGBTQ+ bills.
The account, called @RuPublicans—a spin on name of the political party with a nod to the famed RuPaul–has gained nearly 100,000 followers in less than two weeks since its launch, going viral for its creative AI portraits of different Republicans in full drag.
Created …
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Warning: This post contains spoilers for the finale of True Detective: Night Country.
By the end of True Detective: Night Country, the season’s biggest mysteries have mostly been solved. But the show takes a whole lot of twists, turns, and (somewhat ambiguous) reveals to get to that point.
After a harrowing penultimate episode that saw Da…
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As a lengthy gap between the first and second half of Yellowstone season 5 stretches ahead, drama surrounding Kevin Costner’s continued involvement with the show appears to be heating up.
In the wake of reports earlier this month that Yellowstone may end after its fifth season due to Costner’s alleged unwillingness to commit to a sufficient shoot schedule, Co…
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On Sunday night, Nicki Minaj released a Megan Thee Stallion diss track called “Bigfoot,” as she’d promised to do earlier last week. The rapper teased the track in an Instagram live shortly after Megan released her song “HISS” on Friday, which features a line that many interpreted to be a dig at Minaj and her husband, Kenneth Petty. Over the weekend, Minaj tweeted heavily about her bee…
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Even in an age when you can shoot a movie on an iPhone, you need the heart of a lion to make a film and get it out there. To make all the necessary decisions, to get the gears going for every day of pre-production, shooting, and post-production, to answer each of the million and one questions that come up on a film set, you need higher-than-normal confidence levels, and any self-doubts you have…
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