Culture

The forgotten story behind the most famous side-eye in Hollywood history

Alamy One of show business’s most glamorous – and notorious – images, there’s more to this 1957 snapshot of Sophia…

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10 of the best films to watch this July

Brook Rushton From Superman to I Know What You Did Last Summer – these are the films to watch at…

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The cryptic symbolism of Van Gogh’s Sunflowers – and what they really mean

The National Gallery, London (Credit: The National Gallery, London) They helped to make Vincent van Gogh among the most famous…

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The 1928 song that is one the world’s first gay anthems

Getty Images Cited as one of the first representations of black queer popular culture, Ma Rainey’s sensational Prove It on…

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Elio and the reason today’s original children’s films are flopping

Pixar (Credit: Pixar) Pixar’s Elio has had the worst-ever box office opening for a film from the animation studio. It’s…

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Nine of the best TV shows to watch this July

Ana Blumenkron/ Netflix (Credit: Ana Blumenkron/ Netflix) From Lena Dunham’s new Netflix rom-com, set in London, to the return of…

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The story of the first ever Glastonbury Festival in 1970

Alamy Almost 55 years ago, Michael Eavis hosted the first of his legendary music festivals. In 1970, the BBC visited…

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The true Scandi style that Swedish people love

Courtesy of Svenskt Tenn archive Scandinavian interior style is not all about pared-back, minimalist living and functional, identikit furniture. Here’s…

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How ‘gay cowboy movie’ Brokeback Mountain challenged Hollywood – and the US

Alamy Twenty years ago, Ang Lee’s drama about the love between two male sheep herders was finally released after a…

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The 12 best books of 2025 so far

Rebecca Laurence and Lindsay Baker Bloomsbury, Knopf, Penguin Random House From multigenerational family sagas to speculative dystopias – the very…

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