Reporting and analysis from the culture desk, grouped by publication day.10 stories indexed
From Oslo 2010 to endless remixes: who plays the sax, what Moldova’s SunStroke Project actually is, and how a few seconds of choreography turned into one of the internet’s most durable music memes.
By Newsorga desk
Badges move listener trust from gut feeling to paperwork—touring history, distributor files, and maybe future third-party auditors—while collecting societies still match ISRC codes and fingerprints behind the scenes.
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For the 2027 ceremony, the Academy drew bright lines: AI-only performances cannot win acting Oscars, AI-only scripts cannot win writing Oscars—while other crafts still weigh how humans steered the work.
By Sofia Ren
From political newspaper wordplay in 1979 to hashtags and studio spotlights: why Star Wars Day lands on 4 May, what “Revenge of the Fifth” is, and how to tell grassroots fandom from brand campaigns.
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Rio’s Copacabana beach filled for a free Shakira set—another megastar footprint on a strip that has learned how to host millions for a night and empty the sand by morning.
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Laufey traces how she helped reposition jazz for younger ears—and why one surreal, fish-strewn video became the outlet for a fiercer, theatrical side of her artistry.
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A bomb hoax disrupted a packed Peter Kay arena date; police charged Omar Majed and set a Monday court appearance as venues across the UK revisit crowd-safety protocols.
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The BBC bets bigger names and sharper gameplay for series two of The Celebrity Traitors—Miranda Hart, Maya Jama, Ross Kemp and more—as the social-deduction format tries to match the civilian hit’s word-of-mouth heat.
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Oscars now reject purely AI acting and AI-only scripts for wins; human actors and writers stay at the centre, per updated Academy eligibility language.
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Meryl Streep says one story shape could reunite The Devil Wears Prada cast; BBC hears co-stars on fashion-world satire, feminism, and what changed since 2006.
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