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Cultureteca 01.03.20

Miscellany
Maria Sharapova announced her retirement from professional tennis on Thursday. The five-time Grand Slam champion has struggled for form and fitness since returning to the sport in April 2017 following a fifteen-month doping suspension, and the recurring shoulder issues which marked her playing career have prompted her decision to wave goodbye at thirty-two years old. Sharapova was just seventeen...

Cultureteca 16.02.20

Miscellany
A relatively subdued edition of New York Fashion Week commenced last Thursday before being upstaged over the weekend by a star-studded Tom Ford show and the 92nd Academy Awards, both in Los Angeles. The clash with the Oscars followed the Academy's contentious decision to move its annual awards ceremony to early February, and Ford followed suit, opting to eschew...

Chinatown (1974)

American Cinema
★★★★ (4 out of 4 stars) - Chinatown is a detective story, loosely inspired by the California water wars which took place between the fledgeling city of Los Angeles and the surrounding Owens Valley in the early twentieth century. The pivotal figure in those wars was William Mulholland, the chief architect of the Los Angeles Aqueduct, whose career came to an abrupt end with the failure of the St Francis Dam in 1928...