For people like me, who dislike primping up for a fashion show but sometimes have to go owing to professional reasons, a recent event was a welcome change.
It is hard to miss Feng Shaofeng's face in large posters plastered on the walls of Beijing's subway stations, promoting The Golden Era, a Chinese movie that will be screened in cinemas during the country's upcoming "golden week", the National Day holidays.
More than 20,000 hectares of rapeseed cover Luoping county in Southwest China's Yunnan province, luring hundreds of beekeepers when the flowers bloom every spring.
Of late, China's diplomacy has witnessed the promotion of popular culture through the country's cinema.
The movie isn't about a superhero, nor is it adapted from a comic book, but since its release two years ago, it has attracted the kind of attention that's rare for a Chinese production.
Angelina Jolie is to direct a "sweeping epic" film about veteran Kenyan conservationist Richard Leakey's fight with ivory poachers, the studio behind the movie said on Sept 19.
The country's top media regulator has taken its firmest steps yet to restrict streamed content from reaching TV set-top boxes.
Television news tends to focus on disasters, such as droughts or floods, in covering scientific findings about climate change, an approach that may exaggerate pessimism about the subject, according to a new study.
Downton Abbey, the British period drama that has attracted a cult following worldwide, is back this week, with 8.4 million Britons watching the first episode of the new series.
Let's just go ahead and make it official. "Thursday" should be renamed "Shonday".
Colin Farrell and Vince Vaughn will star in the second season of HBO's True Detective.
The backstory of Batman's many villains came to life on Monday in a new US television drama series that Fox hopes will help lift its prime-time ratings out of the doldrums.
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