Best LGBTQ+ books to spark queer joy for London Pride 2026 From queer canon classics to coffee table crowd-pleasers, these books speak to the beauty of queer love this Pride Month and beyond Evening Standard · Feb 7, 2024
Genshin Impact 4.4 release date and time - When the Xianyun and Gaming banner starts Here's when Genshin Impact version 4.4 launches GamesRadar · Jan 29, 2024
OPINION - The Standard View: Can Keir Starmer’s Labour fix the challenges Britain faces? In the run-up to the 1997 General Election, Roy Jenkins famously compared an ever-cautious Tony Blair to a man “carrying a priceless Ming vase across a highly polished floor.” More than a quarter of a century on, the same line has been thrown repeatedly at Sir Keir Starmer. But today,… Evening Standard · Oct 10, 2023
Three convicted after Met police sting operation recovers £2m Ming vase Detective from force’s specialist crime unit says cross-border operation was the result of four years’ work The Guardian - UK · Aug 19, 2023
5 new books to read this week This week’s bookcase includes reviews of I Am Homeless If This Is Not My Home by Lorrie Moore and Bellies by Nicola Dinan. The Independent UK · Jul 5, 2023
Rare Chinese Rosewood Table From Ming Dynasty To Spark Bidding War 400-year-old Ming Dynasty table found in UK house set to fetch $127k at auction Zenger · Jul 1, 2023
The 400-year-old table set to sell for £100K found in two-up two-down home The Chinese Ming table is worth half as much as the Derby house where its owners live Wales Online · Jun 27, 2023
Bellies by Nicola Dinan review – the fizz of first love The complex layers beneath interpersonal relationships are closely observed in this moving debut of friendship, transitioning and first love The Guardian - UK · Jun 23, 2023
Russell Simmons' daughter insists he's 'completely changed,' and it's been 'terrifying' Russell Simmons' daughters and ex-wife have taken to Instagram with claims that the music mogul has been emotionally abusive and increasingly volatile. Los Angeles Times · Jun 20, 2023
Former Lib Dem leader Sir Menzies Campbell pays tribute after wife Elspeth dies Elspeth Mary Campbell passed away at the couple’s home in Edinburgh. The Independent UK · Jun 5, 2023
Could a Ming dynasty Buddha found near an Australian beach rewrite history? The origins of the 15cm statue, verified as authentic on the BBC’s Antiques Roadshow, remain a mystery. Could it have been left there by 15th-century Chinese explorers? The Guardian - AU · Mar 9, 2023
Friends on Antiques Roadshow discover Buddha statue worth £60,000 with metal detector The pair were searching at Shark Bay, on the Indian Ocean coast at the most westerly point of Australia, when they came across the "world treasure" that may be the oldest Chinese artefact in Australian history Daily Mirror · Mar 7, 2023
I went and tried chippy's famous chip barm to see what all the fuss was about Happy Seasons, also known as Ming's Wings, has a highly recommended addition to its menu Liverpool Echo · Feb 18, 2023
Gardener Raking It In After Digging Up ancient Greek Coin, Rare Vase Mark is reaping the rewards after finding a rare Ming-style vase in his mother's attic and an antique Greek coin while weeding Zenger · Feb 16, 2023
Daily Mirror · Feb 13, 2023 Leeuwarden museum burglary as 11 high value items stolen during daring heist Burglars forced their way into the Princessehof Ceramics Museum in Leeuwarden, Netherlands - which houses some of the most-valuable ceramic art in the country, including priceless Ming vases
The Conversation · Jul 13, 2022 Swimming in the president’s pool – palaces and power in times of crisis Footage flashed across television and smartphone screens this week showing rowdy crowds of Sri Lankan protesters mobbing the official presidential palace in Colombo.
Los Angeles Times · May 5, 2022 From ‘Turning Red’ to ‘Everything Everywhere,’ the Asian (North) American mom goes mainstream Early on in the Pixar animated fantasy “Turning Red,” 13-year-old Mei Lee is subjected to a ghastly public humiliation when her mother, Ming (superbly voiced by Sandra Oh), goes leafing through her notebook and finds lusty drawings of Devon, the cute older boy Mei’s been crushing on. Convinced that this…
WEKU · Apr 30, 2022 When this Shanghai building went into COVID lockdown, my WeChat message group blew up For nine years, I lived in a giant apartment complex called the Summit with hundreds of other people in the city of Shanghai. Now my old neighbors are entering week six stuck inside.
The Guardian - UK · Mar 17, 2022 Turning Red celebrates how pop fandom shapes our lives for the better Pixar’s new film is a refreshingly respectful exploration of how much teenage girls invest in their pop idols – and what they get in return
ABC News · Mar 14, 2022 Pixar’s Turning Red pairs supernatural red panda with a teen movie about sexual awakening and mother-daughter relationships Set to a nostalgic early 2000s soundtrack, Turning Red is a millennial pink-tinged coming-of-age story about a 13-year-old girl navigating the growing pains of adolescence.
Los Angeles Times · Mar 11, 2022 Mary McNamara: If you can’t relate to ‘Turning Red,’ you must not like good movies Here’s something I did not know about myself until I saw Domee Shi’s new Pixar movie “Turning Red”: Apparently I am a 13-year old Chinese Canadian girl living in Toronto in the early 2000s.
Chicago Sun-Times · Mar 9, 2022 ‘Turning Red’: Our little girl is becoming a ... panda? A spirited, borderline obnoxious 13-year-old makes Hulk-like transformations in underwhelming Pixar film.
Tribune News Service · Mar 8, 2022 Movie review: A bit bumpy but colorful, Pixar’s ‘Turning Red’ offers unusual exploration of the dawn of womanhood You won’t have a hard time rooting for Meilin “Mei” Lee in “Turning Red.”
Evening Standard · Mar 8, 2022 Turning Red movie review: Pixar’s latest is brave, ambitious fun (so give it a cinema release, you cowards!) It’s only being released on Disney+, but Turning Red deserves a wider audience
Los Angeles Times · Mar 7, 2022 Review: In 'Turning Red,' fresh blood makes for another unique Pixar delight As 13-year-old Meilin Lee awakes one morning from uneasy dreams, she finds herself transformed in her bed into an enormous red panda — a cuddly giant ball of scarlet fluff with pointy white ears and a long, bushy tail. That tail will cause a bit of damage; so will Mei's…