Saturday, February 7, 2026
By ERIN HOOLEY CHICAGO (AP) — A soft layer of white snow blankets the grounds of the Chicago Botanic Garden. The air is chilly, the sky gray. Inside, however, the air is warm and lights il…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:20AMBy The Associated Press Timothée Chalamet starring as a table tennis wizard in “Marty Supreme” and Charli xcx’s soundtrack to Emily Brontë’s “Wuthering Heights” are some of the…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:05AMFriday, February 6, 2026
By ERIN HOOLEY CHICAGO (AP) — Thousands of orchids fill the greenhouse of the the Chicago Botanic Garden for its 12th annual Orchid Show, themed “Feelin’ Groovy,” where installations…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:44PMThursday, February 5, 2026
By COLLEEN BARRY MILAN (AP) — Belgian fashion designer Pieter Mulier has been named the new creative director of the Milan fashion house Versace starting July 1, according to an announceme…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 08:42AMWednesday, February 4, 2026
By ALESSANDRA TARANTINO and ANDREW MEDICHINI ROME (AP) — On a recent weeknight, long after the swarms of tourists had left Rome’s Colosseum, a small group of people walked around outside…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 12:03AMSunday, February 1, 2026
By AYSE WIETING ISTANBUL (AP) — Iraqi calligrapher Ali Zaman gazes with pride at his masterpiece — a colossal, handwritten manuscript of the Quran that has taken six years of craft and d…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 07:00AMSaturday, January 31, 2026
By COREY WILLIAMS DETROIT (AP) — “I was strung out on Bach, and Beethoven was my thing. I dug jazz, I dug rock, anything with a swing” — or so goes Funkadelic’s 1978 groove “Chol…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 07:30AMBy JONATHAN LANDRUM Jr. LOS ANGELES (AP) — At a pre-Grammy event celebrating Black music’s cultural power, Pharrell Williams used the Recording Academy stage to deliver a prayer — not …
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 07:00AMBy JILL LAWLESS LONDON (AP) — Can a few lines of verse, make commuting less worse? That, in essence, is the question asked four decades ago by Judith Chernaik, an American writer in London…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:45AMBy The Associated Press The goofy and wry relationship comedy “Splitsville” landing on Hulu and fresh albums by J. Cole and Nick Jonas are some of the new television, films, music and ga…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:30AMThursday, January 29, 2026
By THOMAS ADAMSON PARIS (AP) — Paris couture this season did something unexpected: It got lighter and down to earth. Not just in fabric, but in attitude. Even with major couture debuts at …
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 07:12AMBy JOVANA GEC BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) — It may be out of place on a busy downtown street and it may be a bit run down, but this small mansion in central Belgrade is thriving. Its walls crumb…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 07:00AMWednesday, January 28, 2026
By HILLEL ITALIE NEW YORK (AP) — From her house up high in Colorado’s Elk Mountains, author Shelley Read can only look out in amazement at the worldwide success of her debut novel, “Go…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:05AMBy The Associated Press Paris opened its Spring/Summer 2026 haute couture season with theatrical runway moments and diverse designer visions. ___ This is a photo gallery curated by AP photo …
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 02:34AMTuesday, January 27, 2026
By THOMAS ADAMSON PARIS (AP) — Fashion powerhouse Chanel stacked the Paris front row like a movie premiere Tuesday: Nicole Kidman, Dua Lipa, Penélope Cruz, A$AP Rocky, Gracie Abrams, Marg…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 01:43PMBy COLLEEN BARRY MILAN (AP) — A day before an emerging Ghanaian designer made his Milan runway debut, Michelle Francine Ngonmo was troubleshooting how to squeeze more people into the venue…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:15AMMonday, January 26, 2026
By THOMAS ADAMSON PARIS (AP) — Dior turned the Musée Rodin into a celebrity waiting room — then into a garden — on the first day of Paris Couture Week. Guests packed into the museum a…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 11:48AMSunday, January 25, 2026
By THOMAS ADAMSON PARIS (AP) — Paris men’s Fashion Week ended Sunday with two messages that kept coming up on runways: dress sharply, and build clothes to last. Japanese powerhouse Sacai…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 05:05PMSaturday, January 24, 2026
By MAY JAMES HONG KONG (AP) — They perch gently on concrete ledges. They nestle into peeling stucco. Occasionally, they soar across a stone house’s rooftop. A flock has landed in Wang To…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:15AMBy The Associated Press Kendrick Lamar and Bad Bunny live at the Grammy Awards and Rose Byrne’s Oscar-nominated performance in “If I Had Legs I’d Kick You” are some of the new televi…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:05AMFriday, January 23, 2026
By THOMAS ADAMSON PARIS (AP) — Paris men’s Fashion Week has been arguing for a new kind of authority this season — coat-first. Across the runways, statement outerwear, bigger shoulders…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 09:06AMThursday, January 22, 2026
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Oscar voters have spoken. They served up 16 nominations to “Sinners” and 13 to “One Battle After Another” on Thursday. Ryan Coogler was nominated for best direct…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 12:47PMBy THOMAS ADAMSON PARIS (AP) — Issey Miyake brought a monastic calm to Paris on Thursday, staging its IM Men show inside the medieval Collège des Bernardins and sending out sweeping, robe…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 10:03AMBy HILLEL ITALIE NEW YORK (AP) — A grassroots organization founded to increase diversity in publishing is launching a program to counteract the nationwide wave of bannings in schools and l…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:15AMWednesday, January 21, 2026
By THOMAS ADAMSON PARIS (AP) — Dior ’s menswear show arrived with a stripped-back set and a loud signal of confidence: neon-yellow wigs that read like a flag of authority planted in the …
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 01:24PMBy GIADA ZAMPANO ROME (AP) — Rome was paying its last respects to the legendary Valentino on Wednesday at the start of a two-day public viewing for a fashion designer whose high-glamour go…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 04:37AMMonday, January 19, 2026
By COLLEEN BARRY MILAN (AP) — Ricky Martin and Hudson Williams joined a star-studded front row Monday for the first Giorgio Armani menswear runway collection under the sole creative direct…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 03:00PMBy The Associated Press Italian designer Valentino Garavani was known for his glamorous gowns and signature “Valentino red,” which were fashion show staples for nearly half a century. On…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 02:48PMSaturday, January 17, 2026
By The Associated Press Dwayne Johnson transforming into MMA pioneer Mark Kerr for “The Smashing Machine” and Louis Tomlinson releasing his third solo album are some of the new televisio…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:05AMSunday, January 11, 2026
By BEATRICE DUPUY Ariana Grande, Teyana Taylor, Timothée Chalamet and a sea of other stars said goodbye to color at this year’s Golden Globes, opting instead for black. And many in the cr…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 04:15PMSaturday, January 10, 2026
By The Associated Press A$AP Rocky’s first full-length album in eight years, “Don’t Be Dumb,” and Matt Damon and Ben Affleck reuniting again in Netflix’s “The Rip” are some of …
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:05AM 
