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 02:34AMBy 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 06:15AMBy 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 11:48AMBy 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 05:05PMBy 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 06:05AMBy 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 09:06AMLOS 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 06:15AMBy 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 04:37AMBy 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 02:48PMBy 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 06:05AMBy 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 04:15PMBy 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 06:05AMBy KIM COOK Maybe it’s a scratched-up old sideboard found at a yard sale and turned into a snazzy media console. Or a couple of well-traveled vintage trunks given a new home as bedside tab…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:30AMBy The Associated Press Returns to “The Pitt,” the Grid and music of Kid Laroi are some of the new television, films and music headed to a device near you. The first week of January brin…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:05AMBEIJING (AP) — Dressed in a red-and-white warrior costume, Peking opera actress Zhang Wanting balances on one foot on the narrow handle of a rosewood chair. She bends forward, lifts her ot…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:40AMBy CODY JACKSON DORAL, Fla. (AP) — When Fernando Dávila was 8 years old in Colombia, he failed a drawing class because he painted donkeys red. There was a reason for that: He is colorblin…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:15AMBy The Associated Press It’s the end of the year and there are fewer new streaming options headed to a device near you. But it’s a great time to catch up on some of best movies,televisio…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:15AMBy JOCELYN NOVECK NEW YORK (AP) — On any given evening as the lights come up on Act 2 of “Liberation,” Bess Wohl’s intergenerational Broadway play about a women’s consciousness-rai…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:05AMBy ADITHI RAMAKRISHNAN NEW YORK (AP) — People stop reading in adulthood for lots of reasons. But it’s never too late to turn the page on old habits and start again. Curling up with a goo…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:15AMBy JANIE HAR SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A new night-time holiday display featuring music, colors and more than a million twinkling lights in San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park is delighting chil…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 12:38PMBy The Associated Press Jennifer Lawrence playing a new mother whose behavior becomes increasingly erratic in “Die My Love” and three more “Stranger Things” episodes are some of the …
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:05AMBy The Associated Press As 2025 winds down, holiday lights are illuminating communities around the world, transforming familiar landmarks into scenes of shared wonder. From glowing waterfron…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 03:38AMBy RONALD BLUM NEW YORK (AP) — Christine Baranski was in the playground outside St. Matthew’s Church in Bedford, New York, about three years ago when she came across Matthew Guard, artis…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:15AMBy JOHN MYERS JR. and DÁNICA COTO KINGSTON, Jamaica (AP) — The instructions on Wednesday were clear: no serious, sad or long faces. And the crowd filing into a gymnasium in Jamaica’s ca…
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