Celebrity deaths 2023: The famous faces and notable figures we said goodbye to this year
As the year draws to a close, it is a time to commemorate those we have lost in the last 12 months. Music icons including Tina Turner, Burt Bacharach and…
How to rescue robins from cold weather this winter
Up to half of garden birds die of cold and hunger in winter. Here’s how to help them survive. ADVERTISEMENT Although Europe isn’t facing the biting cold snaps of last…
Orlando International Airport encourages flyers to air grievances on Festivus — but please not dance on accompanying pole
It’s Festivus for fed-up flyers as long as they keep their moves PG. The Orlando International Airport (MCO) set up a comment box with a pen and paper where annoyed…
Eerie abandoned Christmas town where tourists ate Chicken à la North Pole and stayed at Santa Claus Inn left to rot
IN the heart of the Arizona desert lies a town called Santa Claus, left abandoned for almost 30 years. A Californian real estate agent bought the town in 1937 with…
In the Musical Version of The Color Purple, Joy Rules the Day
There’s a small but important nugget of movie history wrapped in the vibrant finery of Ghanaian director Blitz Bazawule’s movie version of the Broadway musical The Color Purple. Roughly midway…