by Joko Susilo | Feb 12, 2025 | Culture
Adam LaverBBC News, YorkshireKarol WyszynskiNoor Jahangir hopes Bradford 2025 will bring more opportunities for creatives like herBradford is one of the UK’s youngest cities – and the vibrance of youth will be key to its City of Culture year, according to...
by Joko Susilo | Feb 11, 2025 | Culture
Listen here on your chosen podcast platform.Welcome to The Standard podcast’s pop culture review of 2024.In this episode, Mark Blunden is joined by The London Standard’s culture and lifestyle writer India Block to muse on moments that, maybe, drifted across our shared...
by Joko Susilo | Feb 10, 2025 | Culture
Peter Jones, DragonI was running a fairly successful telecoms business and had a phone call from the BBC saying that they’d like to come and chat. I was intrigued enough to say yes. I was late for our meeting and while he was waiting for me, Martyn Smith, the BBC’s...
by Joko Susilo | Feb 10, 2025 | Culture
Ian YoungsCulture reporter, in BradfordBBCSteven Frayne, formerly known as Dynamo, performed a series of tricks with the crowdThousands of people braved sub-zero temperatures to watch an open-air spectacle starring magician Steven Frayne, formerly known as Dynamo, a...
by Joko Susilo | Feb 10, 2025 | Culture
HOUSTON — For 17 regular-season games, it felt different for the Los Angeles Chargers. All of it. The scheme, the energy, the resilience and joy. And maybe most of all, the backbone.In a season that was about casting off the boulder of underachieving disappointment...
by Joko Susilo | Feb 10, 2025 | Culture
Tim MacMahonJan 16, 2025, 07:00 AM ETCloseJoined ESPNDallas.com in September 2009Covers the Dallas Cowboys and Dallas MavericksAppears regularly on ESPN Dallas 103.3 FMISAIAH HARTENSTEIN HAD done almost everything expected of him during his delayed debut for the...