An Agoraphobe in China: Dispatches from the IFFAM

MACAO, CHINA – The voice that comes over the PA in the inter-airport tram with the English translation is – as are most of the English translation voices I will hear over my week in China – soothing, British-accented, and female, reminiscent of a Much Ado About Nothing/Remains of the Day era Emma Thompson. She tells […]

Jason Segel to Star in, Create AMC Anthology Dispatches From Elsewhere

Jason Segel is returning to the small screen in a very big way. The How I Met Your Mother alum is set to create and star in the new AMC anthology series Dispatches From Elsewhere, TVLine has learned. The cable network announced the news during its portion of the Television Critics Association summer press tour on Saturday. […]

Encounters of the turd kind: Dispatches from a South African walking safari

Mark Daffey May 24, 2018 Share this article Is there an elephant behind those bushes? What if a buffalo charges? Did I just step in that? A South Africa walking safari can be a hazardous undertaking, writes Mark Daffey. The feast last night must have been a doozy. Spread out across a dusty clearing in […]

Gushue dispatches Scotland's Mouat to set table for championship rematch at men's curling worlds

LAS VEGAS — Brad Gushue has been a somewhat frustrated skip all week. So when he made a second straight runback in the seventh end of Saturday night’s semifinal to score three points for Canada, he turned to the crowd and pumped his fists in the air. It was an emotional outburst many curling ends in the […]

Miami Open: Raonic dispatches higher-seeded Schwartzman in straight sets

Milos Raonic earned a hard-fought victory over Argentina’s Diego Schwartzman in the third round of the Miami Open on Sunday. The Thornhill, Ont., native was in tough against the tournament’s No. 13, but won a tiebreak in the first set before grabbing the match’s only two breaks in the second to prevail 7-6(5), 6-3. Raonic, seeded 20th […]

The Friendship That Helped Create ‘Vagina Dispatches’

In 2016, Mona Chalabi, the data editor at The Guardian, collaborated with photographer and filmmaker Mae Ryan—now a show developer and producer at The New York Times—to create “Vagina Dispatches.” The four-part series explored the physical, social, and sometimes political dynamics that surround women’s bodies, and has received more than a million views and an […]

Dispatches: Channel 4 investigates if World Duty Free REALLY is free of VAT and duty

Journalist Harry Wallop went undercover to investigate just how London Heathrow and other UK airports make their money in this week’s channel 4 show – Dispatches: Inside Britain’s Airports. Britain’s three largest airports make more than £4 billion each year, but almost half of that does not come from flights. Majority of airports’ profits come […]