The Dream Hotel by Laila Lalami review – what if AI could read our minds? | Fiction
aSarah Hussein, who takes over her home at Los Angeles International Airport, is asked by immigrants and customs officials to step aside and take her to the interview room. The basics of this scene are familiar. You probably saw something like that in the movie, or dreamed that it was happening to you. Probably already […]
Irena’s Vow review – the extraordinary tale of a real-life Holocaust rescuer | Movies
hEre is an extraordinary, true, real story. For more than two years during World War II, a teenager named Irene Gut kept 12 Polish Jews safe from the Nazis hidden underground just below their boss, a Nazi officer. After the war, Gut moved to America, and until the mid-1970s he never spoke a word about […]
Trump’s DOJ Launches Review Of Law Firms That Participated In ‘Weaponized Lawfare’
The Department of Justice (DOJ) has begun reviewing law firms that participated in “weaponized law,” in response to President Donald Trump's memo covering fraud by lawyers pursuing lawsuits against the federal government, a spokesman told the Daily Callenor News Foundation. Trump issued it Note Saturday aims to “prevent abuse in the legal system and federal […]
Love and Loss: The Pandemic 5 Years On review – is it time to wake up from this collective amnesia? | Television & radio
“rWill the pandemic be repeated? ” In 2025, it's that you were temporarily surprised by the sudden memories of the 2-meter rule after you found someone wearing a face mask on the street. It may seem that the nation is experiencing collective memory loss for what has led to the highest death toll since World […]
A Climate of Truth by Mike Berners-Lee review – a white-hot takedown of environmental policy | Politics books
In In July 2023, Prime Minister Rishi Snack and energy secretary Grant Shapps issued a defense of their decision to expand UK oil and gas production in the North Sea. The move, they argued, was necessary to prevent household energy prices from rising sharply across the country. It was, to say the least, an obvious […]
Othello review – Denzel Washington and Jake Gyllenhaal’s underwhelming blockbuster | Broadway
wIth is the smell of destiny and regression in the air. It's no surprise that perhaps Broadway's hottest tickets this season are for tragedy 400 years ago. There was a lot of ado about Othello's box office revenue, a new rendition of Shakespeare's classic movie star. The show at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre starring Denzel […]
Mahmoud Khalil legal team given more time to review immigration case
The judge gave the legal team of Columbia University activist Mahmoud Khalil more time to consider immigration cases during Friday's hearing in Louisiana. Halil, a 30-year-old green card holder who is married to a US citizen, was arrested by immigrants and customs enforcement officers on March 8th. He has not been charged with a crime, […]
Selena Gomez and Benny Blanco: I Said I Loved You First review – besotted but bland | Selena Gomez
I I said I love you. It comes with cover art featuring fiancées Selena Gomez and Benny Blanco snuggling into the bed. The photo appears to have been taken through the keyhole, as if a prospective audience were spying at an intimate moment. If you don't get the point, there are explanations about how it […]
Major-power conflict ‘no longer unimaginable’, Australian intelligence review finds | Australian politics
Australia faces a more unstable and dangerous world than has been known for over 40 years, and “large conflicts are no longer unimaginable,” a review from the country's intelligence reporting agency found. Prime Minister Anthony Albanese I've requested a review Of the work of the 10 institutions that make up the Australian national intelligence community […]
Buena Vista Social Club review – exuberant yet dramatically thin Broadway musical | Broadway
wFor restraint or surveillance that brought about the Buena Vista Social Club taking nearly 30 years to reach Broadway? The project began as a 1997 album. This is a surprise smash featuring a supergroup of veteran Cuban musicians who have been assembled to play classical music since the 1940s. Subsequent performances (and interviews with participants) […]