Spitting Image at 40: the story of the show is surprisingly influenced by Thatcher
Feb 20, 2024 11:06 am UTC| Insights & Views Entertainment
Spitting Image, first broadcast in February 1984, is famed as an iconoclastic satire of 1980s political and popular culture. Its grotesque puppet caricatures became so well known that they could cement a persons image in...
Shame, intimacy, and community: fangirls are mocked, but it is more complex than you might think
Feb 20, 2024 11:05 am UTC| Insights & Views Entertainment
With Taylor Swift pulling in over half-a-million audience members on her Australian tour, weve been thinking a lot about fans. In this series, our academics dive into fan cultures: how they developed, how they operate, and...
Disney’s Cristóbal Balenciaga reveals the power, the politics and the drama of high fashion
Feb 05, 2024 07:17 am UTC| Insights & Views Entertainment
Born in a small Basque fishing village on the northern coast of Spain at the end of the 19th century, Cristóbal Balenciaga (1895-1972) went on to become one of the most innovative and influential fashion designers...
Elmo’s check-in: Iconic brands and influencer culture create a viral post
Feb 05, 2024 07:15 am UTC| Insights & Views Entertainment
Sesame Streets Elmo recently checked in with users on X, asking: How is everybody doing? The post quickly went viral, with users sharing their personal issues ranging from stresses at work, the cost-of-living crisis to...
Jan 20, 2024 06:05 am UTC| Insights & Views Entertainment
Ai Weiwei, Chinas most famous dissident and artist, has called art that can be easily replicated by artificial intelligence (AI) meaningless. What I find most striking about this comment is how it manages to look both...
Jan 16, 2024 03:55 am UTC| Entertainment
A new Netflix documentary, You Are What You Eat, showcases sets of identical twins as they adopt different diets. For eight weeks one twin follows a vegan diet while the other one follows an omnivorous diet. The experiment...
Jan 15, 2024 03:09 am UTC| Entertainment
As an actor and teacher of method acting, as well as a mother, I was surprised by Natalie Portman saying in a recent interview that method acting is a luxury women cannot afford. The actor was questioning how acting...
South Africa’s plan to move away from coal: 8 steps to make it succeed
Germany lowers voting age to 16 for the European elections
IceCube researchers detect a rare type of energetic neutrino sent from powerful astronomical objects