The National Ballet of Japan makes its debut at the London Royal Opera House on Thursday, pirouetting into a void left when Russia's Bolshoi Ballet was cancelled over the war in Ukraine.

It wasn’t easy being a Black teen in the Belair-Edison neighborhood who sang opera. But Hakeem Henderson persevered.

It’s become a familiar story in just a few years, from Watches of Switzerland’s Brompton Road indie showcase in London to Time+Tide’s Discovery Studio down the road, all the way over The Pond to 1916 ...