The dangers of partying. Kim Kardashian attended several parties over Halloween weekend, but found out too late that costumes weren’t needed at one of them. “This time I showed up to a birthday dinner in a full costume when it wasn’t a costume party!” the Skims co-founder, 42, joked via her Instagram story on Sunday, … Read more
With Marco Vargas, Quebecer Chloé Brûlé presents “Los Cuerpos Celestes”. You were born in Montreal, how did you discover flamenco? By chance ! I studied classical dance in Montreal, at the school of the Grands Ballets Canadiens. While touring the United States with a small troupe, a dancer was asked to do a flamenco number. … Read more
Ferrell Sanders, better known as Pharoah Sanders, is a jazz legend. For 60 years, he played his saxophone with two priorities: freedom and spirituality. Why does this musician deserve to be considered a legend? And quite simply because the length of his career, the artists he rubbed shoulders with and his contribution to the history … Read more
In a sambadrome in a trance, this school in Duque de Caxias, a poor suburb north of Rio, highlighted Exu, the Afro-Brazilian deity of the party, often demonized by the neo-Pentecostal churches which support the far-right president Jair Bolsonaro. – “Affirm my identity” – Paraiso do Tuiuti, the first of six schools to parade overnight … Read more
As you know, the Star of Bethlehem, or Star of the Nativity, is the sign which, in Christian tradition, announced the birth of Jesus to the Eastern Magi and guided them to Bethlehem to pay homage to the Messiah announced by the Prophecies. Epiphany, January 6, precisely celebrates the day of the Adoration of the … Read more
By By Anne CHAON and © 2022 AFP Published: July 29, 2022 at 04:26 Amended: July 30, 2022 at 11:31 a.m. Reading time: 3 mins We enter with shivers, after the heat of Sultanhamet, to plunge into the mystical freshness of Byzantium: the basilica cistern of Emperor Justinian, one of the jewels of Istanbul, has … Read more
In Benedetta of Paul Verhoeven – to discover this evening on Canal + – Virginie Efira embodies a sulphurous nun (this is how Paul Verhoenven depicts it anyway) of the 17th century. The Dutch director of Basic Instinct, Starship Troopers or Shefreely adapted the essay by an American historian, Judith C. Brown, entitled “Sister Benedetta, … Read more
By Graziella L. Posted Oct 23, 2022 4:53 PM Want a hint of magic in your life? The capital is full of mysterious places and fascinating anecdotes, but also magical and esoteric experiences to try! There is no doubt that the city of Paris is magical, between its superb monuments and its astonishing mysteries. If … Read more
A Google engineer caused a stir last week by claiming that one of his artificial intelligence programs was “aware”. Before explaining yesterday on Twitter that as a priest, it was “a religious intuition” and not a scientific one that led him to this conclusion. Imagine: you find yourself faced with a artificial intelligence who explains … Read more
Eyes closed, bodies coated in a layer of greyish clay mud, a dozen tourists in bathing suits stamp their feet to the rhythm of the drum, in the middle of the luxuriant vegetation of the Chapada dos Veadeiros, 230 km from Brasília. “It’s the energy of mother earth!” exclaims Michelle Ximenes, who leads this “shamanic … Read more