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Global Comment
- Posted on Friday September 11, 2026
New York, Milan, Paris… all exceptional destinations in their own unique ways. I spent a lot of time in Paris as a tour guide in my teens and adored it, and I love a trip to a tourist fave as much as the next person. But they are also busy. They are expensive. And they […]
The post In favour of travelling to uncool places first appeared on Global Comment.
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If you associate art galleries with stuffy, silent rooms of drab oil paintings of long-dead men, or of pretentious luvvies who judge your every micro-expression, or of spending a fortune to see weird stuff you don’t understand, I have some excellent news for you: it doesn’t have to be like that! My parents meant well […]
The post How to go to art galleries if you can’t stand art galleries first appeared on Global Comment.
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Continue Reading » - Posted on Wednesday September 09, 2026
There are two wolves inside of me. One is named Ted Lasso, and the other one is Led Tasso. One really wanted a new season of the cheerful-American-coach-in-sardonic-old-England show, and the other one just wanted the last seasons, which were nearly perfect, to remain untouched. It’s true that season four, in many ways a soft […]
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Continue Reading » - Posted on Tuesday September 08, 2026
Matt Jacobsen, Queen Mary University of London You can imagine being a queer teen in a Christian fundamentalist community in rural Australia is not an easy ride. In his debut feature Leviticus, writer and director Adrian Chiarella imagines how much harder that would be if there were also supernatural forces conspiring against you. The film […]
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Continue Reading » - Posted on Monday September 07, 2026
Every Monday on Global Comment, we share Something Special you don’t want to miss. To fit with the six core pillars of the magazine, these will alternate between the themes of watch / listen / read / see / taste / place. It will be something different every week, but it will always be about […]
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Continue Reading » - Posted on Friday September 04, 2026
Last month, I spent some time with the great stars of Hollywood’s Golden Age. Clark Gable, Katharine Hepburn and Bette Davis reminded me of an era when audiences went to the cinema as much for the performers as for the films themselves. A few months earlier, I had explored Method acting through A Streetcar Named […]
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Continue Reading » - Posted on Thursday September 03, 2026
Wendy Hargreaves, University of Southern Queensland The world has lost a music legend in Dolly Parton, who has died at 80 after a “brief battle” with cancer. She’s remembered for her twanging country vocals, decades of hit recordings, Grammys, Emmys and a liberal splash of acting. But the biggest legacy Parton leaves is her songwriting, […]
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Continue Reading » - Posted on Wednesday September 02, 2026
The world has become a very fast place to live. I think I was roughly plodding along pretty well with the internet as it was, but the speed of AI has frightened me. Not the speed of its widespread adoption – though that is arguably terrifying in itself. Instead, it’s the fact that if people […]
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Continue Reading » - Posted on Tuesday September 01, 2026
2026 is shaping up to be a truly thrilling cinematic journey for lovers of great stories. We’ve just wrapped up an incredibly exciting August, marked by the tension, scares, and chills of major horror releases like The Last House, Ice Cream Man, and It Ends. However, September isn’t far behind and is coming on strong […]
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