Georgia girl, 12, killed by father after family court grants him custody | Georgia

 Posted on April 19, 2024  |  3 minutes  |  513 words  |  Kary Bruening

Georgia This article is more than 1 year oldGeorgia girl, 12, killed by father after family court grants him custodyThis article is more than 1 year oldAngel Ahearn’s grandmother fought to gain custody of the girl, but a judge placed her with her father despite allegations of abuse A Tennessee grandmother who fought for custody of her late daughter’s child but lost out to the girl’s father was left grieving and angry after the man murdered her granddaughter. [Read More]

How I stalked my girlfriend | Mobile phones

 Posted on April 19, 2024  |  4 minutes  |  668 words  |  Valentine Belue

Mobile phones This article is more than 17 years oldHow I stalked my girlfriendThis article is more than 17 years oldFor the past week I've been tracking my girlfriend through her mobile phone. I can see exactly where she is, at any time of day or night, within 150 yards, as long as her phone is on. It has been very interesting to find out about her day. Now I'm going to tell you how I did it. [Read More]

Max Headroom: one of sci-fi TVs strangest characters deserves a comeback

 Posted on April 19, 2024  |  5 minutes  |  956 words  |  Chauncey Koziol

In Max Headroom’s ‘zany dystopian narrative’, Matt Frewer played journalist Edison Carter and also the titular computer-generated TV host. Photograph: ABC Photo Archives/Disney General Entertainment Content/Getty ImagesIn Max Headroom’s ‘zany dystopian narrative’, Matt Frewer played journalist Edison Carter and also the titular computer-generated TV host. Photograph: ABC Photo Archives/Disney General Entertainment Content/Getty ImagesStream teamTelevisionThe 80s cyberpunk series predated Black Mirror but predicted deep fakes, virtual afterlives and ChatGPT. A remake of this prophetic show is well overdue [Read More]

Pavement 10 of the best | Pavement

 Posted on April 19, 2024  |  9 minutes  |  1708 words  |  Jenniffer Sheldon

10 of the bestPavementPavement – 10 of the bestSlacker’s finest posterboys or artful rockers perfectly combining bristling noise and elliptical, self-effacing lyrics? Here are 10 of their best songs – you decide 1. Debris SlideBefore their first studio album, 1991’s Slanted and Enchanted, Pavement were a seething, primitive beast. Debris Slide, from the Perfect Sound Forever EP, recorded over two frantic days at the end of 1989, then not released until April 1991, is a perfect introduction to the universe of those early days: bristling noise, ramshackle chaos, and sludge, all wrapped up in a weirdly artful tunefulness. [Read More]

The Tidal Zone by Sarah Moss review a portrait of parental anxiety

 Posted on April 19, 2024  |  4 minutes  |  762 words  |  Kary Bruening

Intensely contemporary … Sarah Moss. Photograph: David Levene/The GuardianIntensely contemporary … Sarah Moss. Photograph: David Levene/The GuardianBook of the dayFictionReviewWith the NHS a central theme, this story about the effect of a child’s illness on her family is a novel for our times Sarah Moss is an impressively flexible writer. Her five novels have ranged over both time and space – historical writing in the last two, the Hebrides and Greenland before that, family life in the present-day English Midlands in The Tidal Zone. [Read More]

The Wife of Willesden review Zadie Smiths boozy lock-in is a bawdy treat

 Posted on April 19, 2024  |  3 minutes  |  620 words  |  Chauncey Koziol

TheatreReviewKiln theatre, London The author’s debut play lets one of Chaucer’s most revolutionary characters loose in modern-day Kilburn in a celebration of community and a life well-lived For her debut play, bestselling author Zadie Smith has adapted The Wife of Bath, from Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales, for 21st-century north-west London. With bawdy humour and an ear for gossip, it’s a love letter to her local area set in a pub that is loud, crowded and bustling with life. [Read More]

Wake Up, Sir! by Jonathan Ames review reinventing Jeeves and Wooster

 Posted on April 19, 2024  |  4 minutes  |  702 words  |  Chauncey Koziol

Nicholas Lezard's choiceFictionReviewA superb and audacious take on PG Wodehouse that turns Bertie Wooster into a neurotic American “Hilarious”, says a quote on the front of this book. The same word is repeated four times, in quotes from reputable American publications. You can understand why British publishers might want to exploit this. Still, I’ll be the judge of that, I thought, and then started on this odd and most extraordinary book. [Read More]

wonder.land review occasionally dazzling, often garbled

 Posted on April 19, 2024  |  5 minutes  |  984 words  |  Kary Bruening

The ObserverStageReviewPalace theatre, Manchester festival Damon Albarn fails to pull a rabbit out of the hat in this modern reworking of Alice in Wonderland “Weirder and weirder,” notes one character, pointedly, in this contemporary retelling of the Alice in Wonderland story. We are in a girls’ toilet in a drab secondary school. From one of the cubicles emerges the Caterpillar (Hal Fowler), a psychedelic-eyed, multiperson creature, smoking a rolled-up white umbrella. [Read More]

'The worshipping of whiteness': why racist symbols persist in America

 Posted on April 18, 2024  |  7 minutes  |  1472 words  |  Aldo Pusey

Abolitionist Harriet Tubman was supposed to supplant Andrew Jackson on the $20 bill. Then came the Trump administration. Photograph: APAbolitionist Harriet Tubman was supposed to supplant Andrew Jackson on the $20 bill. Then came the Trump administration. Photograph: APRaceTributes to a checkered past exist all over the US, even as Confederate statues are removed and brands reconsider racial stereotypes In life, the seventh US president, Andrew Jackson, and his family accrued their wealth at the expense of hundreds of enslaved people. [Read More]

40 years on Padre Pio's body to be exhumed | World news

 Posted on April 18, 2024  |  3 minutes  |  459 words  |  Aldo Pusey

World news40 years on Padre Pio's body to be exhumedTo celebrate the 40th anniversary of the death of Padre Pio, Italy's favourite saint, his body will be exhumed, given a "check-up" and put on display for a few months, church leaders have decided. Renowned for his stigmata and miracle work, St Pius - still known as Padre Pio by his followers - was canonised in 2002 to popular acclaim and around 7 million pilgrims visit his tomb annually at the friary in Puglia, southern Italy, where he died in 1968. [Read More]