Jiminna Shillingford is an avid reader and a passionate storyteller. She is obsessed with all things TV, from anime and romantic fantasy to action-packed series. With that deep affection, Jiminna ...

HONG KONG-Hiroyuki Uemura is relishing the chance to pit Bellagio Opera against the mighty Romantic Warrior in the HK$40 million (S$6.67 million) Group 1 Longines Hong Kong Cup (2,000m) at Sha Tin on ...

Fans started speculating that Taylor Swift's new song "Actually Romantic" was about Charli xcx before it even dropped. The lyrics address an unnamed singer who is obsessed with Taylor. Reminder: ...

With the title “Actually Romantic,” Swifties might have been expecting Taylor Swift to return to the sentimental ballads she penned early in her career. But the track is cheekier than the title ...

Seeing as the Minnesota Orchestra’s music director, Thomas Søndergård, established much of his European conducting reputation in the opera house, it’s appropriate that he should open the orchestra’s ...

As concerns over the emotional pull of general-purpose LLM chatbots like ChatGPT grow by the day, Meta appears to be letting its chatbot personas engage in flirtatious exchanges with children, ...

THUMBNAIL SKETCH: The story revolves around Hanna Glawari (Holly Bewlay), a wealthy widow from the small Balkan state of Petrovenia where the government fears that if she marries a foreigner, her ...

Opera is resurrecting Opera Neon, a browser concept first introduced in 2017, and equipping it with the latest tech trend: agentic AI—an assistant you can assign tasks to, which it will carry out ...

In an Opera About Civil War Spies, Dancers Help Drive the Drama Houston Grand Opera, known for innovation, unveils Jake Heggie’s “Intelligence,” directed by Jawole Willa Jo Zollar and featuring Urban ...

On Friday, the Houston Grand Opera performed a new staging of Richard Wagner’s "Tannhäuser" whose setting comprised both hits and misses, but whose several highlights included the rousing singing of ...

In Francesca Zambello’s new Houston Grand Opera production of Richard Wagner’s Tannhäuser (1845), in collaboration with Washington National Opera, Seattle Opera, and Canadian Opera Company, the ...

Men like action movies, women like romantic flicks. Women dream of their wedding day, but men prefer to "play the field" for as long as they can. These gender stereotypes are widely accepted when it ...