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4 weeks ago | 
flipboard.com | Yuka ROYER |Agnès LE COSSEC |Andrew HILLIAR |Bryan Quinn |Jennifer BEN BRAHIM
Superstitious tourists from Hong Kong and China have been cancelling their trips to Japan, partly due to a manga – first published in the 1990s – predicting that a major catastrophe will hit the country in July. We take a closer look. But first, South Korea heads to the polls on June 3 to elect its …
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1 month ago | 
flipboard.com | Jennifer BEN BRAHIM |Laura DI BIASIO |Sonia PATRICELLI |Marion CHAVAL |Solène Clausse
2 hours agoJust like theatrical release windows have condensed from months to mere weeks, so too has the spoiler timeline. Only a few short years ago, a giant like Marvel studio was begging for fans to keep quiet on a post-release Monday about reveals in a movie like Avengers: Endgame. Now, for Thunderbolts*, …
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Feb 28, 2025 | 
flipboard.com | Stéphanie Cheval |Jennifer BEN BRAHIM |Joanna Cockerell
3 hours agoIndia: Car narrowly escapes landslide on highwayHimachal Pradesh, India - February 28, 2025 A car narrowly escaped a landslide as a section of a hill broke off and crashed just inches away from it on a highway. The incident occurred on the Kullu-Manali highway in Kullu district, in northern India’s Himachal Pradesh on February 28. Visual shows small dust and debris slowly falling from a hill onto the highway.
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Dec 9, 2024 | 
france24.com | Jennifer BEN BRAHIM
To display this content from , you must enable advertisement tracking and audience measurement. On today's weekly music show on Arts24, Jennifer Ben Brahim speaks to the singer of one of the most successful British bands of the last decade. Bastille stormed the UK charts in 2013 with their debut album "Bad Blood", spawning smash-hits like "Pompeii".
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Nov 29, 2024 | 
france24.com | Jennifer BEN BRAHIM
By In this edition of arts24, Jennifer Ben Brahim chats with the first jazz act to ever win a Mercury Prize. Ezra Collective are one of the UK's most exciting improvisation groups, blending jazz with Afrobeat, reggae and soul. The quintet released their third album this autumn called "Dance, No One's Watching", a mission statement to get everybody on the dance floor.
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Nov 25, 2024 | 
france24.com | Jennifer BEN BRAHIM
In this arts24 music show, Jennifer Ben Brahim tells us about the big album release of the week: rapper Kendrick Lamar's "GNX". The surprise record pays homage to the California hip-hop artist's roots, with a heavy dose of West Coast rap. The album comes as Lamar is set to perform at this year's Super Bowl halftime show, and ahead of the Grammy awards where he has seven nominations under his belt. Jennifer is also joined on set by the most British of French musicians, Maddy Street.
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Nov 18, 2024 | 
france24.com | Jennifer BEN BRAHIM
This week, Marjorie Hache speaks with award-winning French-Canadian pianist Alexandra Stréliski about her new album "Neo-Romance", which she is currently touring in France. Meanwhile, Sweden's Hampus Lindwall tells us about American avant-garde composer and filmmaker Phill Niblock, who passed away earlier this year. Lindwall, along with drone metal guitarist and composer, will pay tribute to Niblock on November 25 at L'Église de Saint-Esprit in Paris.
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Nov 11, 2024 | 
france24.com | Jennifer BEN BRAHIM
In this music show on arts24, Jennifer Ben Brahim is joined on set by American-Haitian multi-instrumentalist Leyla McCalla. She's on tour with her fifth studio album "Sun Without the Heat". It blends sounds from the diaspora - Afrobeat, Ethiopian modalities, Brazilian tropicalism, folk and American blues. The title of the record is a reference to a 1857 Frederick Douglass speech made six years before the Emancipation Proclamation.
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Nov 4, 2024 | 
france24.com | Jennifer BEN BRAHIM
Our culture journalist Jenny Ben Brahim tells us more about Quincy Jones, the musician behind Michael Jackson's thriller album, who died at 91. Quincy Jones was born in Chicago and the arc of his long career stretched from smoky jazz clubs, collaborating with innovators like Miles Davis and Charlie Parker. He also worked on arrangements for Frank Sinatra. Quincy Jones also left his mark on the pop world... Most notably his collaboration with Michael Jackson.
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Nov 4, 2024 | 
france24.com | Jennifer BEN BRAHIM
On today's music show on arts24, Jennifer Ben Brahim is joined on set by Norwegian-American singer Okay Kaya and Syrian-British musician Ziyad Al-Samman. Okay Kaya is known for juxtaposing her sweet vocal melodies with her unfiltered take on the human experience. She's just dropped her fourth album called "Oh My God - That's So Me", a reflection on social media and "meme culture". The album also discusses isolation and storytelling. Okay Kaya is playing this week at Paris' Pitchfork music festival.
