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Few now associate New York with handcraft skills, but the glamour of Broadway shows depends, in part, on workshops staffed not only with seamstresses as devoted as any from Parisian couture but with their bosses, women like Barbara Matera, who has died aged 72. She "built" costumes, the theatrical verb conveying much about the robustness

Protesters from a Jewish organization, If Not Now, calling for a ceasefire in Gaza disrupted traffic along the 110 highway south in Los Angeles on Wednesday morning. The activists blocked all six lanes of the busy freeway before California police cleared the demonstration. At least 75 people were detained, NBC Los Angeles reported

Memorial day charity appalled at comedians remarks about Nazi killings in Netflix special Anti-hate groups including the Holocaust Memorial Day Trust, the Auschwitz Memorial and Hope Not Hate have condemned Jimmy Carr for his comments about the Gypsy, Roma and Traveller community in his Netflix special.

Their bedbugs can be a little over-friendly, and the vegan food offerings could be improved. But the French have got a lot of things right Got my Covid jab, 7,90, I texted my best mate last week, repulsively smug, plus some obnoxious photos of local oysters, knobbly picturesque squashes and ceps at the market. Im

Giles Deacon is so normal, so nice, so friendly, he was beginning to lull me into thinking that the fashion world was not as demented as I'd always assumed. We had a nice lunch at Shoreditch House and then he was showing me round his studio in East London's Brick Lane, where a dozen assistants