Culture

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

Digital

From virtual pet egg to 28 mm ring, Tamagotchi turns three decades of daily care into Japanese nostalgia today

2026-09-09

Fan art poster ‘Disney’s South Park (1978)’ published by ZacharyRennKagamine. Credits: ZacharyRennKagamine / DeviantArt, CC BY 3.0. Visual created with artificial intelligence tools.

News

South Park targets Trump, Apple and Google with a South America name-change stunt before season 29 premieres

2026-09-09

Jirō Taniguchi at the Lucca Comics & Games festival in 2011. This tight portrait highlights the manga artist's attentive gaze, a few years before his later stories. Credits: Niccolò Caranti / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0.

France

Inside Invitations, Jiro Taniguchi’s final pages trace a path from everyday walks to unfinished fantasy

2026-09-09

Quentin Mosimann in 2011, three years after winning Star Academy. His return as director in 2026 completes a journey built between television and music. Credits: Froglight / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Music

From 2008 Winner to 2026 Director, Mosimann Returns to Guide the Next Class on France’s Star Academy on TF1

2026-09-08

In Cagnes-sur-Mer, the stone façades of the Collettes estate house the Renoir Museum, the painter’s final home. The site preserves his studios, garden, and a municipal collection. Credits: Muesse / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0.

France

Four Renoir paintings stolen in five minutes : two works remain missing from the artist’s Cagnes-sur-Mer home

2026-09-08