Sewing machines, threads, button boxes and fabric swathes have always held a nostalgia for me. At my late Granny Margaret’s home in the 1980s, boxes of buttons, beads and threads were something I ...

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Opera singer Christopher Macchio unleashed a booming version of the national anthem at the close of the inauguration of President Donald Trump. Wearing a midnight blue velvet jacket, dark pants ...

Singer Linda Nolan, a member of pop group the Nolans, has died at the age of 65, two decades after she was first diagnosed with cancer. Nolan found fame in the 1970s alongside sisters Coleen ...

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After all, from the invention of the cotton gin to the washing machine, we’re used to an economy where technology transforms low-wage, physically arduous work. The discourse around AI has ...

The singer appeared as the Sea Queen in the U.S. version of 'The Masked Singer' in 2023 and as "Atlantis" in the Australian version in 2021 Ilana Kaplan is a Staff Editor at PEOPLE. She has been ...

Organisers of Hong Kong singer-actor Eason Chan's ongoing Fears And Dreams tour announced on Friday (Jan 10) that the Bangkok leg of the tour would be cancelled, following "safety concerns". Scheduled ...

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