Culture & Society

No more sour grapes – Temecula could be Californian wine’s latest success story Author: James Stannard   Better wine and a new approach to tourism are set to put southern California’s vineyards on the map for both...

Adele cancels remainder of world tour with damaged vocal cords   Adele said she had "even considered miming", but she said she could never do this to her fans. Earlier this week, the singer hinted she...

Hit film about Istanbul’s cats finally comes home to Turkey Melis Alemdar   Turkish filmmaker Ceyda Torun lived in Istanbul before moving overseas with her family. She never lost her fondness for the city or the...

That’s Entertainment in India In India’s entertainment biz, two behemoths dominate: Bollywood and cricket. Things may be about to get a lot more interesting. Digitization, aided by a burgeoning middle class with more money to spend...

Harvard’s ART Institute suspends admissions By Malcolm Gay   Harvard University’s ART Institute, a graduate program in theater, has suspended admissions after the US Department of Education gave the program a “failing” grade for burdening its graduates...

How Andy Serkis became Caesar in ‘War for the Planet of the Apes’ By Ed Symkus   Andy Serkis has become, in two-and-a-half decades of stage, television, and film work, one of the world’s great unrecognized actors....

Are Canadian Marijuana Stocks a Boom or Bust Industry? by Dale Harris   Canada just passed a major overhaul to their marijuana laws. But don’t light up your bud in celebration just yet. This overhaul was intended...

Report says half of Africa facing "serious levels of hunger"   Only three of Africa's 54 countries - Tunisia, Algeria, and Morocco - are considered to have low levels of hunger, according to a Global Hunger...

Are witches the ultimate feminists? Kim Kelly   A new book argues that witchcraft’s proponents were among the first to champion the cause and compares their treatment with that of Hillary Clinton. Men have always feared powerful women,...

Century Spice Road, Catch the Moon, Sagrada games review – fiendish fun   Owen Duffy   A mission to track down exotic spices, building increasingly unstable ladders to the moon and designing glorious stained glass windows feature in...