Culture

Macklemore performs at the University of San Francisco on February 8, 2013. The Seattle rapper, in a pink fur coat over a Vancouver Grizzlies jersey, holds the microphone at arm’s length. Credit: San Francisco Foghorn (Amanda Rhoades) / Flickr via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 2.0.

Debate

From the MetLife mic to Robert Kraft’s veto : how Macklemore lost his opening slot on Ed Sheeran’s US tour

2026-09-15

In front of the Drouant restaurant in Place Gaillon in Paris, photographers and onlookers wait for the announcement of the Prix Goncourt on November 3, 2016. It is on this sidewalk that the Académie announces its winner every fall, after three rounds of selection. Credits: ActuaLitté, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

France

Freed from Iran’s Evin prison, Olivier Grondeau sees his memoir judged by 600 inmates across French jails

2026-09-15

Julia Louis-Dreyfus in the press room at the 66th Emmy Awards ceremony at the Nokia Theater in Los Angeles on September 22, 2014. The actress is among the references used to compare Jean Smart in the 2026 rankings. Credits: Mingle Media TV (Red Carpet Report) / Flickr, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons, image cropped and enlarged.

Digital

How Widow’s Bay collected 14 Emmys across two separate 2026 ceremonies, and what The Pitt salvaged from it

2026-09-15

Basel Adra and Yuval Abraham, winners for ‘No Other Land’ at the 2024 Berlinale. Credits: Martin Kraft (photo.martinkraft.com), CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

News

Venice Film Festival 2026: Israel Wants to Strip the ‘Naza’ Documentary Filmmakers of Their Citizenship

2026-09-14

Manga and comic books for sale at a flea market stall. Secondhand volumes, annotated with marker, sit alongside series still in shrink wrap. It was through these stalls that manga spread across Europe before entering the catalogs of major Franco-Belgian publishers. Credits: MichaelGaida / Pixabay via needpix.com.

France

Yves Schlirf, the bookseller turned editor who took manga to Dargaud and revived Blake and Mortimer, has died

2026-09-14

Tupac Shakur’s wax figure, with a bandana tied across his forehead and chains around his neck, at Madame Tussauds in New York in February 2010. Thirty years after his death, the rapper belongs as much to museum collections as he does to music history. Credits: John Seb Barber / Flickr, CC BY 2.0.

Music

Thirty years after Tupac Shakur died, Duane Davis’s verdict stood in for the tribute his estate never held

2026-09-14

Elon Musk presents Starship’s future capabilities to officials from NORAD, U.S. Northern Command, and Air Force Space Command in Colorado Springs on April 15, 2019. The head of SpaceX and Tesla was then received by the U.S. space command, before his political commitment alongside Donald Trump. Credits: Defense Visual Information Distribution Service (DVIDS) / U.S. Department of Defense.

Cinema

Before its October 16 release, Alex Gibney’s Elon Musk documentary draws a defamation threat from Alex Spiro

2026-09-11

Beyoncé and Jay-Z on stage at London’s O2 Arena on November 15, 2009. The couple shared the bill then; at Stade de France on September 10, 2026, the rapper took the stage alone. Credits: idrewuk / Flickr via Wikimedia Commons, Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic (CC BY 2.0).

France

Outside Paris, Jay-Z replays thirty years of rap with Pharrell Williams and Justin Timberlake, and no Beyoncé

2026-09-11

Adèle Haenel at the Cannes Film Festival in May 2017. Her smile is dazzling, her hair caught in the red-carpet lights. Six years later, the actress will announce her retirement from cinema in a letter to ‘Télérama’. Credit: Georges Biard / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0.

France

Pluralism rules, Arcom complaints and an April warning explain why France’s public broadcaster erased the show

2026-09-11

The members of The Strokes on stage in 2019 and 2020: Julian Casablancas, Nick Valensi, Nikolai Fraiture, Fabrizio Moretti, and Albert Hammond Jr. Credits: Raph_PH / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 2.0.

News

September 11: 25 Years of American Music

2026-09-10

Tight shelves and stacks of books create the dense setting of a secondhand bookstore. A peaceful image, at odds with the industrial fate reserved for some books. Credits: CC0-Photographers / PxHere, public domain.

AI

From Anthropic to Amazon, how bulk book buying and destructive scanning are feeding artificial intelligence

2026-09-10

Valérie Vogt in the series ‘Call My Agent!’ with Jean Dujardin and Camille Cottin. Credit: AgenceYdB, CC BY-SA 4.0.

News

Call My Agent! The Movie Is Back on Netflix

2026-09-10