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Music
Why Van Halen legend Sammy Hagar quit touring for Las Vegas residency
Hagar, 77, loves performing but no longer wants to tour. His nine-show run in Las Vegas may lead to further residencies.
16 Jan 2025 - 7:15PM
Netflix
Review
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XO, Kitty season 2: Netflix’s Seoul-set spin-off series disappoints
16 Jan 2025 - 4:00PM
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Tourism
Sex and the City brownstone that’s a magnet for selfie takers to get a gate
16 Jan 2025 - 12:19PM
K-pop, Mandopop, other Asian pop
Baby V. O. X, 2NE1, BigBang … older K-pop faves are coming back
K-pop legends like 1990s girl group Baby V. O. X, 2NE1, BigBang and GFriend have been making highly successful returns to the stage.
16 Jan 2025 - 5:45AM
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K-pop girl group 2NE1 on stage in Seoul during a reunion concert in October 2024. The girl group is one of many older K-pop acts getting back together after years of inactivity. Photo: Instagram/2ne1official
American cinema
Review
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Wolf Man, Leigh Whannell’s reboot of 1941 horror, is plain boring
A reboot, Leigh Whannell’s Wolf Man is momentarily intriguing – but a shallow story and zero thrills makes this film all bark and no bite.
16 Jan 2025 - 2:15AM
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RedNote
How to set up an account on RedNote, a TikTok alternative: 9 steps
RedNote is attracting users of another Chinese short video app, TikTok, in the US who fear a ban. See our 9-step guide to opening an account.
15 Jan 2025 - 7:15PM
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Asian cinema: Korean films
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K-Family Affairs: how a family endured 30 years of Korean political turmoil
Nam A-rum’s documentary is an intimate study of her family, her civil servant father and former activist mother, told through home movies.
15 Jan 2025 - 4:45PM
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A still from K-Family Affairs.
Diplomacy
Shanghai courts Taylor Swift as Chinese cities bet on stars to boost economy
‘We are optimistic,’ tourism official says as Shanghai reportedly enters talks to bring American pop superstar to China.
15 Jan 2025 - 3:39PM
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K-pop, Mandopop, other Asian pop
New K-pop girl group Hearts2Hearts to debut in February
The eight-member outfit are Korean music label SM Entertainment’s first rookie girl group since Aespa in 2020 – find out their names here.
15 Jan 2025 - 9:49AM
Social media
YouTubers sell footage to tech giants as AI video arms race heats up
OpenAI and other firms’ need for footage to train AI video generators has content creators selling them unused footage, but there are issues.
15 Jan 2025 - 4:51AM
Asian cinema: Japanese films
Explainer
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All you need to know before watching Attack on Titan: The Last Attack
As the finale of Hajime Isayama’s anime series opens in Hong Kong, a reminder of its plot, the controversies and why it is special.
14 Jan 2025 - 7:22PM
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A still from Attack on Titan: The Last Attack.
American cinema
What Elton John film Never Too Late revealed to singer about his life
‘It brought back the struggle I had with success’, and how ‘it’s never too late to change,’ singer says of Disney+ documentary.
14 Jan 2025 - 6:15PM
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Academy Awards
Oscar nominations postponed for second time because of LA fires
The names of Oscars finalists, initially planned for Friday, will be announced on January 23.
14 Jan 2025 - 10:43AM
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Asian cinema: Hong Kong film
Twilight of the Warriors named the best Hong Kong film of 2024 by critics
Director Soi Cheang Pou-soi scores third win in four years for martial arts drama set in Kowloon Walled City; Papa wins two major awards.
13 Jan 2025 - 8:15PM
Korean drama reviews
Check-in Hanyang midseason recap: hotel/period K-drama gets political
Netflix period drama about trainees at a prestigious guest house is shifting focus towards political intrigue and a royal backstory.
13 Jan 2025 - 7:15PM
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Kim Ji-eun as hotel trainee Hong Deok-soo in a still from Netflix period K-drama Check-in Hanyang. Bae In-hyuk, Jung Gun-joo and Park Jae-chan co-star.
Music
Ringo Starr talks about his new country album, Barbara Bach and broccoli
In 1970, former drummer Beatle Ringo Starr recorded his first country album. 55 years later, he’s releasing his second, Looking Up.
13 Jan 2025 - 4:15PM
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American cinema
Pamela Anderson, star of The Last Showgirl, on being accepted as an artist
‘Who would have thought this would be the beginning of my career at 57 years old?’ Pamela Anderson, of Baywatch fame, is entering a new era.
11 Jan 2025 - 5:08AM
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TV shows and streaming video
Meghan Markle’s Netflix show delayed as LA fires wreak havoc
With Love, Meghan has been pushed back until March. As wildfires halt TV productions, one actress urges Hollywood to scrap its awards season.
14 Jan 2025 - 8:43AM
Markle in a still from With Love, Meghan. The release of the Netflix lifestyle show has been postponed as the Los Angeles wildfires rage on. Photo: Netflix
TV shows and streaming video
US$83m house from Succession series among those destroyed in LA wildfires
The house, with six bedrooms and 18 bathrooms, was bought for US$83 million in 2021, and appeared in the season four premiere of Succession.
14 Jan 2025 - 8:42AM
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Music
Franz Ferdinand pair on new album, why they love Charli XCX, Chappell Roan
Frontman Alex Kapranos and bassist Bob Hardy talk about writing their new album The Human Fear, their love for Chappell Roan and Charli XCX.
13 Jan 2025 - 1:57PM
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Asian cinema: Hong Kong film
Sammo Hung plays his and Jackie Chan’s schoolmaster in Painted Faces
1988 Hong Kong film follows Yu Jim-yuen, the master of the Peking opera school in Kowloon whose pupils included Jackie Chan and Sammo Hung.
12 Jan 2025 - 10:10AM
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OPINION
Phoebe Zhang
Opinion
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For good or ill, AI is changing modern love
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Reflections
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The earliest Chinese lotteries, and a cheating operator’s gruesome death
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Ashlyn Chak
Opinion
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Frat-boy behaviour tainted Hong Kong Clockenflap 2024. A sign of the times?
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Opinion
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Liam Payne’s death has shaken a world of 1D fans and non-fans alike
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Bridgerton season 4’s casting of Yerin Ha does not mean it’s ‘ruined’
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