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What can you say about James Cameron that he hasn’t already said about himself? In all seriousness, the guy is a filmmaking legend. Starting out as a model maker for Roger Corman, Cameron worked his way up the food chain, serving as art director, production designer, and oversaw the special effects on John Carpenter’s Escape From New York before helming his 1982 directorial debut Piranha II: The Spawning. It was his sophomore feature, however, 1984’s The Terminator, that established him as one of the most exciting…

As It Happens6:32The mating dance of sea fireflies is ‘the coolest fireworks show that you've ever seen’: scientistNicholai Hensley has spent countless hours standing waist-deep in pitch-black waters off the coast of Panama, watching thousands of tiny sea creatures perform dazzling displays of bright blue light.The creatures — each the size of a sesame seed — belong to a recently discovered species of ostracod, also known as sea fireflies, whose males lure potential mates with a synchronized dance powered by iridescent…

There are a ton of shows, concerts and dance recitals to see this weekend in the Bay Area, both of the holiday and non-holiday nature. Here is a partial rundown. Tabard aftermath: ‘Blues is a Woman’ back on Among the several shows thrown into doubt  by the sudden closure of the Tabard Theatre in San Jose, was the acclaimed Pamela Rose-directed musical revue “Blues Is a Woman.” But that show, along with singer Le Perez’s holiday show “The Most Wonderful Time of the Year,” has been rescheduled for this weekend at the…

On her enigmatic new single “Houdini,” Dua Lipa is a slippery illusionist who is hard to catch and quick to leave. It’s reflective of her approach to the latest era of her career as she preps the release of her third studio album, which marks a departure from the disco dream that defined 2020’s Future Nostalgia. But before Lipa performed her grand vanishing act and disappeared into her new psychedelic soundscape, Barbie the Album executive producer Mark Ronson caught her at just the right moment. Ronson connected…

“The Nutcracker” is back, baby. It was a surreal, unprecedented moment when Colorado Ballet canceled its entire 2020-21 season, given the COVID shutdowns and complications. But when the refreshed production debuted during the 2021 holiday season — it typically runs for a month, or about 25 performances — a Denver tradition was reborn. This year’s 63rd installment is, as in the past, a boon for the state’s marquee ballet, as sales made up more than half of its annual revenue, which totaled $15.5 million last year. That’s…

Singer-songwriter Dua Lipa had never written a song from a character’s point of view, she’d always drawn from personal experience — until “Dance the Night,” from “Barbie.” (Alex Harper / For The Times) Dua Lipa was on tour — she can’t remember where, it was a bit of a blur — when she got the Instagram DM from Mark Ronson. The decorated producer was working on the soundtrack for “Barbie,” and he wanted her to be part of it. “There are two songs in the film as it stands,” he told her, “and is the…

The two recently collaborated on the BTS singer’s remix of ‘Standing Next to You’ Could the collaboration between BTS member Jung Kook and Usher be more than a one-and-done? In a TikTok video released by Jung Kook over the weekend, the two rendez-vous in a warehouse, where they break out into synchronized choreography when Usher’s 2004 single “Yeah!” starts playing.  Jung Kook added the hashtag #StayTuned to the post, which could hint at more to come from the two.  The two recently…

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for freeSophie Ellis-Bextor has admitted she “wasn’t quite prepared” to see Barry Keoghan dance nude to her 2001 hit in his newest film Saltburn.The Irish actor, 31, stars opposite Jacob Elordi, 26, in director Emerald Fennell’s comedy-thriller about a student (Keoghan) who is invited to spend the summer at his aristocratic classmate’s (Elordi) sprawling estate.In the final sequence of the…

Hollywood superstar Timothée Chalamet has legions of stans who follow the actor's every move, but is his Wonka director Paul King one of them? It appears so, given that the filmmaker (Paddington, Paddington 2) has admitted to closely watching the young performer's career over the years. Chalamet's big break, of course, was Call Me By Your Name, for which he was a 2018 Oscar nominee for Best Actor (the third youngest man to ever do it), but King revealed he even watched old high school videos of the actor when he was a…

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has unveiled a captivating image of the Herbig Haro object 797 (HH 797), a luminous region enveloping newborn stars, or protostars. These objects form as stellar winds or jets of gas ejected from protostars generate shockwaves upon colliding with surrounding gas and dust at high speeds. HH 797, prominent in the lower half of the image, is situated near the young open star cluster IC 348, positioned close to the eastern edge of the Perseus dark cloud complex.Captured by Webb Space…