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Remembering Mitch Paone

Every morning during his one of his teaching workshops, before anyone read their brief or touched a laptop, Mitch Paone sat down at a Fender Rhodes we borrowed for the occasion and played some jazzy riff. The students stood around with their coffee not quite knowing what to do with this. Some smiled, some looked at each other with a...

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New photobook offers tender portrait of queer Muslim life in France

In her new photobook, Made of Smokeless Fire, French-Algerian photographer Camille Farrah Lenain explores the complexities of queer Muslim identity through a strikingly empathetic lens. Published by Loose Joints, it is the culmination of a body of work developed in France that examines how faith, desire and cultural inheritance coexist within a social landscape where queer Muslim lives are… Source...

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Cannes Lions 2026: All the Grand Prix Winners

When reflecting on the differences between the Cannes Lions Festival of Creativity and the Cannes Film Festival on his first visit to the former, actor Alan Cumming was concise: “It feels like people are a lot more crazy here.” While Cumming was of course speaking in jest, it’s hard to disagree – the combination of a European heatwave (meaning that...