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A one-of-a-kind Caribbean buffet will be feeding hundreds of hungry people this weekend. The Caribbean Kitchen will host the region's only all-you-can eat buffet for the cuisine in Oldham.

A student who moved to the UK from India and later settled in Manchester was tragically found dead on a beach in Blackpool, an inquest has heard.

Tom Burke is requesting media training from the BBC.

John Carpenter, the mastermind behind classic horror films such as Halloween, The Fog and The Thing, is returning to the director’s chair for the first time in 13 years in John Carpenter’s Suburban Screams.

Airports can be a stressful experience, with non-stop waiting and watching to see when your plane is ready to board.

Julia MacCary editor “There’s nowhere you can walk in this country that is not Native land,” said IllumiNative founder and executive director Crystal Echo Hawk at Rising Native Voices, the Variety and IllumiNative event in partnership with SXSW on Saturday. IllumiNative, which is a Native woman-run social justice organization, DIGA Studios and Madica Productions recently announced their documentary-style podcast “American Genocide: The Crimes of Native American Boarding Schools.” The six-episode podcast examines the human rights violations against Indigenous children at Native American boarding schools, looking for answers specifically at Red Cloud Indian School in Pine Ridge, S.D.

wcinkala pmc-editorial-manager Variety and IllumiNative are partnering with SXSW to host a panel on the importance of Native American representation in Hollywood. The event, held at Moonshine Grill from 1:00-3:00 p.m. on Saturday, March 11, will include a one-on-one conversation with Crystal Echo Hawk, founder and executive director of IllumiNative, followed by a conversation with Lashay Wesley, director of communications and storytelling at IllumiNative, and Patrick Smith, executive producer at DIGA, about IllumiNative’s new podcast, “American Genocide: The Crimes of Native American Boarding Schools.” The podcast examines the atrocities and human rights violations committed against Native children at Native American Boarding Schools and follows Crystal and Lashay as they investigate and search for answers and justice at Red Cloud Indian School, a former boarding school in Pine Ridge, South Dakota. Both conversations will be moderated by Cynthia Littleton, co-editor-in-chief, Variety.

2020 hasn't been a classic year for hanging out with friends but Maxband have done their best to create something to remember nonetheless. At the top of the year the Brooklyn-based band, which features Max Savage of Parquet Courts on lead vocals, laid down the songs they had been playing live in support slots for the likes of The Men and The World Is A Beautiful Place...