By Jacqui Palumbo, CNN (CNN) — A funerary portrait from Roman Egypt will go up for sale next week, featuring a strikingly modern-looking male subject with piercing hazel eyes and graying hair. The painting is one of 900 or so known as the Fayum mummy portraits, created during the 1st and 3rd century AD and
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By Lilit Marcus, CNN (CNN) — This week in travel news: Australian travelers descended on an imaginary tourist attraction, a woman recalls the night she unexpectedly bunked with a pair of traveling nuns, and the turning point for REAL ID has arrived. Getting into hot water Hundreds of tourists are flocking to hot springs in
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By Barbie Latza Nadeau, CNN (CNN) — For more than a decade, images of Santa Maddalena, a small village church in northern Italy framed by jagged peaks of the Dolomite Mountains, have circulated online. But locals say it was last summer that the steady stream of visitors became a flood. Now, authorities are stepping in
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CNN By Dan Heching, Miriam Elder, Sandra Gonzalez, CNN (CNN) — Catherine O’Hara, the radiant actress whose singular comedic delivery helped elevate movies and TV shows like “Beetlejuice,” “Home Alone” and “Schitt’s Creek” to cult classic status, has died. She was 71. A statement from CAA, the agency that represented O’Hara, said the actress died
Continue Reading By Dan Heching, Miriam Elder, Sandra Gonzalez, CNN (CNN) — Catherine O’Hara, the radiant actress whose singular comedic delivery helped elevate movies and TV shows like “Beetlejuice,” “Home Alone” and “Schitt’s Creek” to cult classic status, has died. She was 71. A statement from CAA, the agency that represented O’Hara, said the actress died Friday
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By Amarachi Orie, CNN (CNN) — HBO has announced new cast members for season 4 of its hit drama “The White Lotus,” with Helena Bonham Carter and Chris Messina among the next wave of guests checking in to the luxury — and usually deadly — resort chain. “The next round of bookings has begun in
Continue Reading By Rachel Tashjian, CNN Paris (CNN) — “The rest of the year is for reality,” said Daniel Roseberry, the creative director of what is perhaps Paris’s most eccentric couture house, Schiaparelli, minutes after his latest collection, featuring a densely feathered jacket with foot-high soaring wings for a collar, was unveiled. Paris Couture Week, which the
Continue Reading By Francesca Street, CNN (CNN) — Peering out the Greyhound bus window, Diann Droste saw the snow coming down fast and thick. “I remember I was looking out the window and thinking, ‘I don’t know that this is good,’” Diann tells CNN Travel today. “I started to see cars in the ditches, and then I
Continue Reading By Lisa Respers France, CNN (CNN) — While President Donald Trump is pushing Americans to see his wife’s documentary “Melania” which premieres this week, the Library of Congress is reminding us that the country’s cinematic history is vast and well worth celebrating. The body on Thursday released its annual list of films added to the
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By Leah Dolan, CNN (CNN) — This week, a pack has been circling. It began at the Schiaparelli haute couture show in Paris on Monday, when Demi Moore arrived in a cheetah print catsuit and matching coat designed by the house’s creative director Daniel Roseberry. Then at the Chanel show on Tuesday, a scene-stealing look
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By Lianne Kolirin, CNN (CNN) — Actor Paul Dano has broken his silence about Quentin Tarantino’s harsh criticism of him. The “Pulp Fiction” director launched a scathing attack on Dano during an interview with “The Bret Easton Ellis Podcast” in an episode released last month. During the conversation, Tarantino said his fifth favorite film of
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By Jeanne Bonner, CNN (CNN) — Ahead of a proposed rule change that would require social media account information from some foreign travelers to the United States, international travel experts are saying the policy could further deter visitors from coming to the US — a decline that could translate into billions of dollars in lost
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By Alli Rosenbloom, CNN (CNN) — “America’s Got Talent,” “The Voice,” “American Idol” — would any of them exist without “Star Search?” The iconic staple of ’80s and ’90s television laid the groundwork for today’s ubiquitous talent competition shows, with one big exception: When it came to crowning big stars, it had a tendency to
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By Georgiana Ralphs, CNN (CNN) — An AI-generated blog on a tour company’s website has landed tourists in hot water — and not the kind they were looking for — after it emerged the “tranquil” northern Tasmania hot springs it recommended don’t actually exist. Screenshots shared with CNN of the now-deleted blog on Tasmania Tours’
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By Francesca Street, CNN (CNN) — The Beefeaters made her do it. Carrin Schottler was trying to focus on the centuries of British history at the Tower of London. Imposing white stone towers. Impressive armor. Ravens circling turrets. She was in a tour group with about a dozen people. The tour guide was talking, but
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By Lianne Kolirin, CNN (CNN) — Claire Danes has said she went into “meltdown” when she discovered she was pregnant with her third child at age 44. The “Homeland” star revealed that she burst into tears when she found out she and her husband, the actor Hugh Dancy, were expecting their third child. Speaking to
Continue Reading By Stephanie Elam, Lisa Respers France, CNN (CNN) — When musicians gather in Los Angeles on Sunday for the annual Grammy Awards, they’ll be dropping into a country in crisis. Actors, athletes and musicians have been speaking increasingly loudly about the Trump administration’s actions in Minneapolis, following the killing of ICU nurse Alex Pretti last
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By Tamara Hardingham-Gill, CNN (CNN) — In 2018, Amanda Meyer Barkley left her home in Louisiana for what was meant to be a short vacation in Prague. She planned to stay for a few weeks, then return to the United States before moving on to China for a teaching job. Nearly a decade later, she
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By Jacqui Palumbo, CNN New York (CNN) — At the base of the world’s most slender skyscraper, stretching high above Billionaires’ Row in Manhattan, Bonhams will relocate its American headquarters next month. The auction house leaves behind its more cloistered Madison Avenue home for airy galleries in an 80-foot glass atrium, as well as an
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By Lisa Respers France, CNN (CNN) — The silence that has largely blanketed Hollywood since the Trump administration deployed thousands of federal agents to Minneapolis appeared to crack this weekend in the wake of the killing of ICU nurse Alex Pretti. Two celebrities known for speaking their values — “The Last of Us” star Pedro
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