The area In terms of golf, the location of Rusacks cannot be improved. It’s pretty handy for everything else too. St Andrews is a compact city. Its other main points of interest – the ruins of the cathedral and the castle, the port and pier, the university – are easily accessible on foot. The student […]
P aris is back in business. Going back and forth means jumping through all the usual Covid hoops, but boy, it’s worth it. Restaurants and bars are open – hurray! – shops, ditto, and museums are not only open, but less crowded than the pre-pandemic peak – with a pre-booked ticket, you enter the Louvre […]
TIFF: The filmmaker seems eager to turn “Huda’s Salon” into a more tense outlet. But what tension can there ever be when you already know how this is all going to end? It begins, as so many horrible things do, without even a glimmer of terror to come. The young wife and mother Reem (Masa […]
Self or nation? Loyalty or betrayal? Stay or go? These are the questions that go by Huda’s living room, the eighth film by Hany Abu-Assad. These are not themes unknown to the Palestinian director; his previous films, including the Oscar nominee Heaven now and Omar, explored similar questions with precision and sensitivity. Corn Huda’s living […]
What kind of crazy people would choose to open a new bar and restaurant at a time like this? With the lockouts and restrictions, cleaning regimes, masks and seated drinking rules, as well as guests still unable to grasp the concept of booking in advance, you’ll either need to be a little nutty or have […]