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Netflix’s ‘Culinary Class Wars’ has transformed South Korea’s fine dining scene
By Canadian Press on February 13th, 2026
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — When South Korean chef Jun Lee opened his restaurant SOIGNÉ in Seoul 13 years ago, explaining what fine dining meant was part of the job. Customers would ask for à la carte items at his “modern Seoul cuisine” restaurant, which only serves a tasting menu, or question why a meal ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Actress Rose Byrne honored as Harvard’s Hasty Pudding Woman of the Year with parade and roast
By Canadian Press on February 12th, 2026
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (AP) — Rose Byrne, fresh off her Golden Globe Award win and Oscar nomination for the leading role in “If I Had Legs I’d Kick You,” will be honored Friday as the 2026 Woman of the Year by Harvard University’s Hasty Pudding Theatricals. Byrne, who also has starred in “Bridesmaids,” “Neighbors,” “Insidious” and ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Christian Siriano invites New York Fashion Week guests into his surrealist dream
By Canadian Press on February 12th, 2026
NEW YORK (AP) — Christian Siriano barely had 48 hours to design his finale gown for his New York Fashion Week show. The iridescent green liquid fabric Siriano had ordered from Italy was stuck in customs for weeks before it finally arrived shortly before Thursday’s runway show. The designer of “Project Runway” fame may have ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Mexico freezes Miss Universe co-owner’s bank accounts during organized crime investigation
By Canadian Press on February 12th, 2026
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico’s anti-money laundering office has frozen the bank accounts of the Mexican co-owner of Miss Universe as part of an investigation into drugs, fuel and arms trafficking, an official said Friday. The country’s Financial Intelligence Unit, which oversees the fight against money laundering, froze Mexican businessman Raúl Rocha Cantú’s bank accounts ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!PEN America names Summer Lopez and Clarisse Rosaz Shariyf as permanent CEOs
By Canadian Press on February 12th, 2026
NEW YORK (AP) — PEN America announced Thursday that interim CEOs Summer Lopez and Clarisse Rosaz Shariyf have been appointed to permanently oversee the century-old literary and free expression organization. “Summer and Clarisse have been the guiding force behind PEN America’s extraordinary literary programming and robust defense of free expression,” Dinaw Mengestu, president of PEN’s ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!‘Love Story’ revisits JFK Jr. and Carolyn Bessette. It’s stirred some backlash
By Canadian Press on February 12th, 2026
With just a single photo released from their wedding day, much of the relationship between John F. Kennedy Jr. and Carolyn Bessette remains shrouded in romanticized legend: the courtship between the fashion publicist and the scion of an already much-mythologized family, the private nuptials and, just three years later, their deaths in a tragic plane ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Colorectal cancer is rising in younger adults. Here’s who is most at risk and symptoms to watch for
By Canadian Press on February 12th, 2026
WASHINGTON (AP) — Colorectal cancer is a threat not just to older adults but increasingly to young men and women, too. It’s now the top cancer killer of Americans younger than 50. The deaths of “Dawson’s Creek” actor James Van Der Beek at 48 this week, and a few years ago “Black Panther” star Chadwick ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Search for Nancy Guthrie now seeks nearby security videos from the month before she vanished
By Canadian Press on February 12th, 2026
TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) — Investigators in Arizona want residents near Nancy Guthrie ‘s home to share surveillance camera footage of suspicious cars or people they may have noticed in the month before she disappeared. The alert went across a 2-mile (3.2 kilometer) radius in neighborhoods close to where the mother of “Today” show host Savannah ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Love is found in unexpected places at the Berlin Film Festival
By Canadian Press on February 12th, 2026
BERLIN (AP) — A surprising and touching Afghan political rom-com that is said to feature the first ever on-screen kiss in an Afghan movie opens the 76th Berlin Film Festival Thursday. Set in a Kabul newsroom in 2021, with the Taliban on the cusp of returning to power, “No Good Men” tells the workplace love ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Joan Chen wants to show desire has no age in ‘Montreal, My Beautiful’
By Canadian Press on February 12th, 2026
Joan Chen has a resume stacked with lauded performances in the U.S. and China, yet scripts about women her age longing and yearning for love and sex rarely cross her desk. That’s why her first conversation with writer-director Xiaodan He about “Montreal, My Beautiful” left such an impression. The Canadian drama, out Friday, stars Chen ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Pene Pati rises from doubted Samoan singer to one of Opera’s most-watched new stars
By Canadian Press on February 12th, 2026
NEW YORK (AP) — Pene Pati was cautioned as a 20-year-old not to pursue a singing career, an unusual occupation for a Samoan who grew up in New Zealand “Lots of people want to become a singer because they want the lifestyle,” the tenor recalled. “Whereas for me, I did it out of spite, to ... Read More »
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