Entertainment

By Vivian Song, CNN Toronto (CNN) — It’s lunch hour on a wintry Wednesday afternoon and the streets of Toronto’s Financial District feel eerily abandoned. Snow flurries are blowing at an angle, the sky is a leaden grey, and visibility is poor. Only a handful of pedestrians mummified in puffer coats can be seen waddling

By Precious Adesina, CNN London, United Kingdom (CNN) — On a rainy afternoon in London, Yin Xiuzhen sits under a canopy of red, pink, purple and orange garments stretched over a steel frame. From inside, the carpeted dome, complete with rugs and cushions, makes a vibrant sanctuary. From the outside, the structure, which stands next

By Stephy Chung, CNN (CNN) — Every Lunar New Year, brands release zodiac animal-themed merchandise and items in the lucky color red. This year, there’s one product that has cut through all the noise: the Adidas Chinese Track Top. It wasn’t explicitly marketed for the festive season, but has been unofficially dubbed the “Chinese New

By Barbie Latza Nadeau, CNN (CNN) — An Italian coastal beauty spot known as “Lovers’ Arch” because of its popularity with courting couples collapsed during heavy storms on Valentine’s Day in what one local official called “a blow to the heart.” Faraglioni di Sant’Andrea, the site of an arch in the stone cliffs on the

By Maggie Hiufu Wong, CNN Hong Kong (CNN) — If there’s one common theme to emerge from the many Lunar New Year rituals attached to the annual celebration, from the food we eat to the activities we join, it’s the collective hope that we’re ushering in luck, prosperity and good vibes for ourselves and everyone

CNN By Lilit Marcus, CNN (CNN) — It was when she got to San Diego, of all places, that Elizabeth Gilbert realized everything had changed. She had left home as the author of a reasonably successful, year-old memoir titled “Eat, Pray, Love,” a first-person fusion of travelogue, confessional, and self-help manual, tracing her post-divorce journeys

By Lilit Marcus, CNN (CNN) — It was when she got to San Diego, of all places, that Elizabeth Gilbert realized everything had changed. She had left home as the author of a reasonably successful, year-old memoir titled “Eat, Pray, Love,” a first-person fusion of travelogue, confessional, and self-help manual, tracing her post-divorce journeys to

By David G. Allan, CNN (CNN) — For over a century, skiing has been more than transportation or sport. It’s been a lifestyle, emphasis on the second syllable. Ernest Hemingway drew a romantically colorful portrait of spending a few winters in the Austrian Alps in the early 1920s. At the end of his biographical “A

By Maggie Hiufu Wong, CNN Grab your saddle and put on your riding boots — it’s time to stampede into the Year of the Horse. Lunar New Year, widely considered the most important event of the year in China and Chinese communities around the planet, is nearly here. Marking the first new moon of the

By Zoe Whitfield, CNN (CNN) — Born in Ramallah at the end of the ‘90s, Ayham Hassan grew up privy to the political weight attributed to certain sartorial practices. “I became aware early on that Palestinian textiles are not just objects,” said the designer, who is based between London and the occupied West Bank. “They

By Maureen Ohare, CNN (CNN) — In our travel roundup this week: why British Chinese food is baffling to Americans, the couple who bought an Italian mansion sight unseen, plus who’s staying in North Korea’s luxury hotels. A home in Italy Vito Andrea Racanelli’s ancestors migrated from Italy to America in the late 1800s. More

By Rachel Tashjian, CNN (CNN) — American designers have a very special someone on their moodboards this season: themselves. Marc Jacobs namechecked his own collections from 1993, 1995, 1998, 2003 and 2013 as influences in his show notes (alongside ’90s Prada and the cult Lower East Side vintage store Ellen). Michael Kors, celebrating his brand’s

By Amarachi Orie, CNN (CNN) — A Sydney council has banned beachgoers from boarding a community bus while shirtless or wearing bikinis, reigniting a decades-old debate over public decency in Australia. “Please dress appropriately. Clothing must be worn over swimwear,” reads a sign for the Hop, Skip and Jump bus, which is funded by Northern

By Jeanne Bonner, CNN (CNN) — Steven Wright knew he had a problem long before the first snowflake fell. Wright, who runs the Jay Peak ski resort in northern Vermont, realized something was wrong last summer while talking to Canadian season pass holders who had decided they wouldn’t be coming to the US — or

By Jacqui Palumbo, CNN (CNN) — On a brisk winter day in Chicago last month, mammoths seemed to return for a fleeting afternoon. The ancient leviathans lumbered along the lakefront, the city skyline behind them. But visible through their skeletons, made of metal and hair, were puffer coats and scarves. Performers hoisted the animal-like sculptures