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Grace Jones has unveiled a series of new acts for this year’s Meltdown festival.Newly confirmed acts for this year’s festival, which Jones is curating, include Angelique Kidjo, John Grant, Sky Ferreira, Hot Chip and the Kasai Allstars, Desire Marea and Honey Dijon.They will join the existing, previously announced line-up of Peaches, Skunk Anansie, Meshell Ndegeocello, Oumou Sangaré, The Love Unlimited Synth Orchestra, Lee Fields, Baaba Maal and a special tribute to Lee ‘Scratch Perry’ by Adrian Sherwood.Jones will now also open and close the festival, which takes place between June 10-19. She was initially due to curate the show back in 2020 but that and last year’s event were both cancelled due to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.In her new opening performance, Jones will be backed by an orchestra.

pic.twitter.com/td8yWgfcT6— oscar nominee kristen stewart!!! (@queennn94) March 6, 2022A #SpiritAwards message for Putin from Kristen Stewart pic.twitter.com/tvBJ7uLhCj— tink

Kae Tempest has shared a new single featuring Lianne La Havas – listen to ‘No Prizes’ below.The collaborative track is the latest preview of Tempest’s fourth studio album, ‘The Line Is A Curve’, which comes out on April 8 via Fiction Records. Earlier this month, the writer and musician dropped the song ‘Salt Coast’ after releasing ‘More Pressure’ in January.“Made a song with my good friend and mind-blowing artist Lianne La Havas,” Tempest explained of their latest offering in a statement.

Staff and pupils are in shock after the sudden death of a much-loved teacher who collapsed in the school playground.

Cynthia Littleton Business EditorSamsung, the world’s largest maker of connected TVs, is looking to flex more muscle in content distribution through a pact with Sinclair Broadcast Group’s Tennis Channel to carry a new free streaming channel in the U.S.Dubbed T2, the Sinclair-owned channel will feature an advertising-supported 24/7 live stream of matches from major tournaments that might otherwise never be televised. The channel will be available only in the U.S. and exclusive to the Samsung TV Plus platform for the first 12 months.

Rebecca Rubin Film and Media ReporterIf you went to the movies over the weekend, you may have shelled out a little extra to see “The Batman.”In a surprising break from industry standard, AMC Entertainment, the biggest theater chain, boldly announced plans to charge customers about $1 to $2 more for tickets to “The Batman” compared to other movies playing at the same time. It is not clear how the experiment, a version of variable pricing, paid off because AMC did not break down ticket sales versus attendance levels in any of its 620 domestic theaters.But AMC was spot-on about the popularity of Robert Pattinson’s take on the Caped Crusader in “The Batman.” The Warner Bros.

With less than six weeks to the big day, shoppers have been stocking up on Easter treats from new and exclusive chocolate eggs, to unusual hot cross buns. And the Cadbury Creme Egg is an Easter must-have ideal for egg hunts, or simply to satisfy that sweet-toothed chocolate craving.

Three people have been arrested for violent disorder after a fight broke out inside a 'business premises' in Droylsden.

Ed Sheeran has denied that he "borrows" ideas from unknown songwriters without providing acknowledgement.

Peter Debruge Chief Film CriticPuberty is a monster — or more aptly, an adorable, uncontrollable giant panda — in Pixar’s “Turning Red.” An Oscar winner for her imaginative smothering-mother short “Bao,” helmer Domee Shi makes a worthy addition to the boys-club studio’s relatively small circle of feature directors, exploring another complicated Asian American (technically, Chinese-Canadian) parent-child dynamic, this time between a perfectionist tiger mom and the high-achieving yet deeply repressed teenage daughter who’s dying to let out her inner freak just a little.For decades, boys could look to werewolves and the Incredible Hulk as colorful metaphors for mood swings and aggro outbursts, while girls have had considerably fewer models to draw on for the changes they face in adolescence — which is where Shi’s perky puberty allegory proves such a welcome innovation. One morning, after the most humiliating incident of her young life, 13-year-old Meilin Lee (voiced by Rosalie Chiang) wakes up as a giant red panda — the reddish-brown, ringtail fox-like cousin of Beijing’s black-and-white Olympic mascot, rendered here as a big, cutesy-wootsy teddy bear.

“Turning Red” premieres on Disney+ March 11.

CAPRICE has shown her support to Ukraine by stripping completely naked to share a defiant message. The move from Caprice, 50, comes as Ukraine continues to defend itself after Russia's invasion last week.

KHLOE Kardashian shared a post about "happiness being the new rich" after getting accused of "flaunting her wealth". The KUWTK alum, 37, faced backlash for sharing photos of her daughter True, three, wearing a designer outfit worth $6,500.

PETER Andre's wife Emily has brushed off their 16-year age gap as he prepares to turn 50 next year - insisting he's "young at heart". The 32-year-old says their difference in years has never been an issue since they married in 2015.

PRESENTER Nick Grimshaw has a plush £2.1million pad that's as bursting with character as his on-air presence. The stylish property sees him bunker down in north London with his other-half Meshach Henry, 26, - known as Mesh - and their adorable dogs Pig and Stinky, with fans previously getting a glimpse of his home life on Channel 4's Gogglebox. On images from the show Nick, 37, and his niece, Liv, perch on a cream coloured sofa with bold animal print cushions and a glam chandelier in the background.

Angelina Jolie is on the ground in Yemen to aid refugees. Jolie, 46, emphasized the need to support all displaced families and refugees as she arrived in the capital city of Yemen on Sunday amid the ongoing conflict between Ukraine and Russia. The U.N.

Tributes have poured in for Winnie Campbell who has passed away at the age of 106.

A Scots carer has issued a desperate plea after using her life savings to save her sick dog when he began vomiting 'black liquid'.

NBC has been announcing decisions about their TV shows…

A Scots teacher is being investigated for wearing an "inappropriate" figure-hugging morph suit to school on World Book Day.

Artist Christo has sadly passed away.

Grimes has plans of legally selling her soul as a part of her upcoming digital art exhibit titled 'Selling Out'. As reported by Fox News, the 32-year-old singer is setting up a virtual exhibition in which she will be putting prints, drawings, photographs, and other artwork for auction, and surprisingly, she will also be putting her soul on auction. Bloomberg unveiled this peculiar addition to the list of things Grimes would be offering in the exhibition. Reportedly, Grimes has got a legal document drafted which consists of the list of things offered by her for auction.

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Hannah Gadsby begins her new Netflix special, Douglas, with a proclamation seldom heard in stand-up sets. It isn't as radical as her vow to "quit comedy" in Nanette, the Australian comic's Emmy- and Peabody-winning 2018 meta-comedy special that deconstructed joke structures to explain how humor can prop up power imbalances.

It’s half term and time for the kids to get creative.

One royal photographer is looking back at his time photographing Diana, Princess of Wales.

Lana Del Rey is continuing to defend herself.

A father has been isolating in a cramped hospital room for 28 days so he can be with his son while he undergoes life-saving chemotherapy.

Gene Siskel and Roger Ebert in screening room for photo shoot for People Weekly, June 13, 1984; Chicago

The taskforce will focus on supporting the culture sector's recovery in the wake of coronavirus