Julie Walters

UK offers £400 mln to aid culture’s COVID recovery

Britain is to offer hundreds of millions of pounds in grants to aid the recovery of cultural venues and heritage sites hit by the pandemic, the government announced on April 2.

Some 2,700 organizations including the Glastonbury music festival will benefit from the grants which amount to £400 million ($550 million and 470 million euros), the ministry of culture said in a statement.

Mamma Mia! the Greek Abba-inspired restaurant prompts Abba reunion (pics + vid)

It’s been seven years since Abba have been glimpsed at together as a group, but all that changed at the Tuesday opening of Mamma Mia! The Party – a new restaurant in Stockholm. The Swedish pop foursome whose music has survived the decades got together to endorse the cuisine they inspired.