Anne McCarthy

If the gut-wrenching Euros final match taught us anything – apart from confirming England's longstanding trouble with penalties – it's this: in the UK, football is continuously portrayed as a man's game...

Start typing a reply in Google’s Gmail and it might feel like it is reading your mind. Tap out the letters “tha” and up pops the rest of a sentence in greyed out letters. Press tab and your sentence completes itself.

We’re living in a pandemic world, and with that comes new questions: How can we safely continue life as it was in the “before times?”...

One day during a trial held via Zoom, Elaine Banton, an employment and discrimination barrister in London, heard the sound of her son's online violin lesson in their home. The judge stopped the proceedings to ask, "Is that the cello?"...

Fashion is roaring back to life as lockdowns have eased globally, warm weather returns, and Parisians – residents of one of the world’s fashion capitals – are ready for it. Haute Couture 2021 shows dazzled this week in Paris...

Ten years ago in Paris, I was chatting with a woman at a party who grew up in California; when I told her I was from Missouri, she twisted her face and said, “There’s not much culture in Missouri, is there?”

Cannes Film Festival may have moved from its original May date to July, but that didn’t dampen the fun of the fest. While there were some COVID-related issues to arise, the festival experienced its trademark fun and excitement...

The Cannes Film Festival is in full swing, after being canceled in 2020, and then postponed in 2021 from its regular May date to July. Here’s the latest buzzy news from la Croisette...

Fashion is always future-forward, quite literally – the industry works a year ahead, which means last week’s Paris Fashion Week featured menswear looks for Spring 2022, and everyone’s buzzing about it...

As a young and fair-weather gamer, I loved playing Super Mario Brothers because it was my older brother’s favorite game, and I wanted to be just like him. I can still hear the 8-bit theme song in my head, and I’m guessing you can too, if you played Mario as a kid...

Jane Austen fans are a devoted bunch. True “Janeites” tend to travel widely to celebrate their favourite author, most often to Bath for the Jane Austen festival. But on the other side of the world sits Governor’s House...

La mode. Fashion. It’s inextricably linked with French-ness, it seems. You can’t swing a cat in Paris without hitting someone who looks chic and runway-ready...

As Bob Dylan crooned: “The times, they are a-changin’.” That feels true now more than ever, as technology continues to evolve rapidly...

Wading into the world of sobriety, you may encounter something called a “cross addiction” but not be sure what it means. Cross addictions can occur when a person has given up alcohol, or another substance, and then leans on something else as a substitute...

If you’ve been keeping abreast of the tech world, you’ve likely heard the term “NFT” floating around recently...