The White Lion pub seen at Covent Garden, UK. SOPA Images | LightRocket | Getty Images As countries come out of lockdown, pub and restaurant owners have a simple plea for punters: honor your bookings. Drinkers and diners who fail to cancel before blowing off a reservation were estimated to cost the British hospitality industry
Sir Keir Starmer is making a last-ditch appeal to voters ahead of “Super Thursday” with opinion polls and Labour’s own canvassing suggesting the party is heading for a series of defeats. On the last day of campaigning, the Labour leader is joining Labour’s candidates in three high-profile mayoral races in England: West Yorkshire, the West
SpaceX has received more than 500,000 preorders for its Starlink satellite Internet service and anticipates no technical problems meeting the demand, founder Elon Musk said on Tuesday. “Only limitation is high density of users in urban areas,” Musk tweeted, responding to a post from a CNBC reporter that said the $99 (roughly Rs. 7,300) deposits
In this article FB Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg in 2017. KENZO TRIBOUILLARD Facebook on Tuesday announced that its Workplace enterprise communications software has now reached 7 million paid subscribers, up 40% from last May’s figure of 5 million. Workplace is enterprise software that companies can use as their internal social network to communicate with their
Bridget Jones is on a list of international celebrities granted VIP status under the government’s new points-based immigration system. V good, she would write in her diary. Renee Zellweger, the Texan actress who played the 30-something singleton who cooked blue soup, wore enormous pants and drank and smoked too much, tops the list. She is
EXCLUSIVE: Keshet, the Israeli media company, is shaking up its UK non-scripted business. The company has rebranded its Keshet Productions’ non-scripted arm as Interstellar and will bring it under the umbrella of Greenbird, the superindie group that it acquired in 2018. Interstellar will be led by Managing Director David Williams, with Jamie Ormerod promoted to Creative Director and Marisa Guagenti as Head of Production. Keshet
Following the success of the Inaugural Blumfest in 2020, producer Jason Blum has announced the second Blumfest will return this October. In a video featuring the mega-producer in full Star Wars attire in honor of “May the 4th Be With You”, Blum delivered the news that is sure to excite fans of all things Blumhouse. Like
News Mitski Shares New This Is Where We Fall Song “The End”: Listen The track is narrated by Chris Miskiewicz, the co-creator/writer of the graphic novel and co-writer of the song “The Baddy Man” By Madison Bloom May 4, 2021 Facebook Twitter Mitski (Photo by Debbie Hickey/Getty Images). Facebook Twitter Mitski has shared a new
It’s Tuesday, which means it’s time for a new batch of book releases! Here are a few of the books out today worth reading. This is a very small percentage of the books out this week, though, so stick around until the end for some more Book Riot resources for new releases, including our YouTube
Shaun Bailey, the Conservative Party candidate for London mayor, may be trailing 20 points behind Labour’s Sadiq Khan in his bid to be elected on Thursday 6 May. It’s even been reported that his failure is such a foregone conclusion, Tory MPs have been advised not to campaign for Bailey and that there have been
Antoinette Chinonye Nwandu’s play Pass Over, which received the 2019 Lortel Award for Outstanding Play for its Off Broadway run, will open at Broadway’s August Wilson Theatre for a limited engagement. Dates and cast have not been announced. The play will be directed by Obie Award winner Danya Taymor. The 2017 play, which was filmed
Josh Duggar was arrested in Arkansas on Thursday. Jill, Josh’s sister, and her husband Derek Dillard told ET exclusively: ‘We just learned this information. It is very sad.’ Duggar was arrested in Washington County and TMZ reports he’s currently being held in a detention center without bail. The outlet has also reported that Duggar’s car
Images By Tang Ming Tung The U.S. government has sent billions of dollars in stimulus checks to Americans since the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic. Yet some people may still be asking, “Where is my money?” If you feel that you may have been left in the lurch, there is a way to claim the
Sir Keir Starmer has admitted Labour still have “a mountain to climb” to win back voters ahead of this week’s local elections – as some polls showed his party behind the Conservatives in key races. On Thursday, people in England, Scotland and Wales will head to the polls in a bumper set of elections with
Two German researchers got down to answer an easy query: What makes a great bird photo? But to find the answer, they had to collect over 20,000 photos of birds from nine of the largest bird accounts on Instagram with their corresponding data. The result was startling. They found that the bird image most liked
Andrew Harrer | Bloomberg | Getty Images An email chain revealed by Epic Games as part of its lawsuit against Apple provides earlier context about Facebook’s battle with Apple over its App Store. Last August, Facebook said that Apple’s App Store rules were hampering it from releasing its Facebook Gaming app for iPhones in the
Noel Clarke’s Kidulthood co-star Adam Deacon has alleged he was a victim of the actor for 15 years, saying the star sabotaged his career and that his “gaslighting” led to “the complete breakdown” of his mental health. Deacon made the claims in a statement saying he believes “every single word” of the allegations made by
EXCLUSIVE: Emma Booth, who is currently starring in Starz’ The Gloaming, is to lead a TV adaptation of short film Proxy from Anonymous Content. Proxy was originally directed by Sophia Banks, whose debut feature Black Site starred Jason Clarke, Michelle Monaghan and Jai Courtney, and written by Dominick Joseph Luna. The short film, which also
EXCLUSIVE: Multiple Golden Globe, BAFTA, and Emmy-nominated actor, producer and director David Oyelowo and his wife, actress, writer and producer, Jessica Oyelowo, have signed a two-year first-look deal with Walt Disney Pictures for feature length films across all platforms at the studio. The Oyelowos will produce through their Yoruba Saxon banner, which is focused on
News Watch Rostam’s New “From the Back of a Cab” Video, Featuring HAIM, Charli XCX, and More Samantha Urbani, Ariel Rechtshaid, Remi Wolf, Seth Bogart, and others pop up in the Changephobia visual By Matthew Ismael Ruiz May 4, 2021 Facebook Twitter Rostam in “From the Back of a Cab,” directed by Jason Lester and