CULTURE

‘It makes me feel strong’: Burlesque is back
- By Mainedigitalnews.com
- . July 17, 2025
Before we get lost in such layered timelines, here’s a brief history. Burlesque’s origins are in Victorian Britain: it grew out of music hall and

The woman who redefined chimps – and human beings
- By Mainedigitalnews.com
- . July 14, 2025
In 1986, Jane Goodall told the BBC how similar chimps and humans really are Source link

What film and TV get wrong about London
- By Mainedigitalnews.com
- . July 11, 2025
Of course, London has been portrayed in different ways throughout cinema history, including its bombed-out ruins after World War Two, in films such as 1949’s

Why Alice Cooper saved the Hollywood sign
- By Mainedigitalnews.com
- . July 8, 2025
The exact date the monument went up is contested, but its official centenary was celebrated on 13 July 2023, making it 102 years old this

How Superman started out as a radical rebel
- By Mainedigitalnews.com
- . July 5, 2025
All the same, few comic characters were as militant as Superman. In one early issue, he demolishes a row of slum homes in order to

The inside story of the wildest shoot in film history
- By Mainedigitalnews.com
- . July 2, 2025
The harsh conditions were totally alien to most people there. “The crew complained a lot about the heat, humidity, hotel rooms, bugs, mosquitoes,” he says.

The forgotten story behind the most famous side-eye in Hollywood history
- By Mainedigitalnews.com
- . June 29, 2025
Alamy One of show business’s most glamorous – and notorious – images, there’s more to this 1957 snapshot of Sophia Loren and Jayne Mansfield than

The 1928 song that’s one of the world’s first gay anthems
- By Mainedigitalnews.com
- . June 26, 2025
Getty Images Cited as one of the first representations of black queer popular culture, Ma Rainey’s sensational Prove It on Me Blues is a landmark

The Scandi homeware style that Swedish people love
- By Mainedigitalnews.com
- . June 23, 2025
Courtesy of Svenskt Tenn archive Scandinavian interior style is not all about pared-back, minimalist living and functional, identikit furniture. Here’s why the century-old Svenskt Tenn

The 12 best books of 2025 so far
- By Mainedigitalnews.com
- . June 20, 2025
Rebecca Laurence and Lindsay Baker Bloomsbury, Knopf, Penguin Random House From multigenerational family sagas to speculative dystopias – the very best fiction of the year