Sophie Willan’s Sewing Bee and the End of Empires By Dave’s Locker International Correspondent PARIS—In a dimly lit arrondissement café where the espresso is priced like a Tokyo studio apartment, the television above the bar flickers to life with the unmistakable trill of BBC One. A baker from Bury is trying to sew a corset…
Emilio Estevez: The Last Suburban Guerrilla in a Franchise-Burned World By Luisa “Lu” Moreau, Geneva Bureau Chief, Dave’s Locker GENEVA—In the age when every cinematic universe expands faster than a hedge-fund bonus, Emilio Estevez remains the cinematic equivalent of a Swiss canton that never joined the EU: stubbornly sovereign, faintly alpine, and politely allergic to…
Carlos Acosta, the Cuban bullet in tights who pirouetted out of a crumbling Havana housing block and onto the gilded stages of Europe, is now the man the Royal Ballet quietly hopes will save classical dance from TikTok. That’s a tall order for anyone, let alone a 51-year-old whose knees once belonged to the gods…
The Hollywood Bowl, that half-domed amphitheater squatting on a Hollywood hill like a crashed UFO made of redwood and stucco, is supposedly just another music venue. Yet to the rest of the planet it remains a shorthand for America’s most profitable export: the illusion that everyone, everywhere, is invited to the party—provided they can afford…
PARIS—On a rain-slick afternoon outside the Olympia, the queue stretches from the brasserie awnings all the way to the Seine, as if the river itself decided to form an orderly line for once. Inside, a 51-year-old Mancunian in a khaki parka is sound-checking the same four chords the planet has been hearing since 1994, and…
BILLY BOB THORNTON: AMERICA’S SOUTHERN-FRIED EXPORT OF MENACE, MISANTHROPY, AND MISPLACED ROMANCE By the time you finish reading this sentence, Billy Bob Thornton will have been married in at least one additional time zone. The man who once wore Angelina Jolie’s blood in a vial around his neck has become, against all odds, the United…
Christopher Guest, the man who taught the world that mockumentaries could be both devastatingly funny and uncomfortably accurate, has become something of a global patron saint for anyone who’s ever sat through a team-building exercise or watched a national leader try to play the ukulele on television. While his name rarely trends alongside geopolitical flashpoints,…
