A Week in Brief: Sunday, 3 Dec. 2023 to Saturday, 9 Dec. 2023 — Saturday, 9 Dec. 2023… Disasters and Accidents… A nationwide power outage, due to a system failure, occurred on Saturday, 9 Dec. 2023 in Sri Lanka. Nationwide power outage in Sri Lanka due to a system failure - government official Sri Lanka is experiencing a countrywide power outage due to a system failure, a government official said on Saturday.www.reuters.com

Are you ready for “Wonka”? — Wonka, directed by Paul King from a screenplay he co-wrote with Simon Farnaby, is an origin story to one of Roald Dahl’s greatest characters — Willy Wonka. Dahl, in 1964, introduced the world to the fabulous Willy Wonka when Charlie and the Chocolate Factory was published. …

Bourboulon’s “The Three Musketeers: Milady” releases Dec. 15 — Martin Bourboulon’s The Three Musketeers: Milady, with Eva Green playing the titular Milady, is set for a theatrical release on Friday, 15 Dec, 2023. …

Rowe’s “Breakwater” releases Dec. 22 — Friendship isn’t friendship if you aren’t willing to risk anything for it. Dovey (Darren Mann), a young impressionable ex-con, risks everything for his his prison mentor as he sets out to find Ray Childress’ (Dermot Mulroney) estranged daughter. The ex-con, crossing state lines to track down Childress’ daughter, soon discovers…

Make St. Ives part of your next arts-history-focused vacation — St. Ives, steeped in legend and strongly associated with the arrival of the Irish Saint Ia of Cornwall, is a Cornish fishing coastal town with a marvellously well-established history. Fishing and St. …

Are any of these productions on your “To-Watch-List”? — January 2024: “National Theatre Live: Dear England”

CBGB, celebrating their 50th anniversary, returns to the New York’s East Village — This is a day many New Yorkers will remember with great fondness. Friday, 8 Dec. 2023 saw CBGB return to the East Village. Magnificent is the understatement of the year. CBGB, questionably the birthplace of New York City’s Rock, Folk and Punk Music, kicked-off its 50th anniversary last night at…

Did you make this Santa Claus’s list this year? — Nightmare on 34th Street, written and directed by James Crow, came to digital platforms on Tuesday, 5 December 2023. The film, starring Caroline Boulton, Lucy Pinder, Dani Thompson, Ewen MacIntosh, Andy Gatenby, and Adam Greaves-Neal, revolves around a mysterious psychopathic Santa Claus that has nothing but murderous intent on his…

Is former president Donald J. Trump an ‘artist’? — Donald Trump Jr., during his testimony for the defense on Monday, refereed to his father, former president Donald J. Trump, as an ‘artist’ and ‘genius’. My father is “an artist with real estate”, said Donald Trump Jr. Don Jr. is partially correct. If anything, from certain perspectives, the former president…