My wife wants a lover. How can I help her find one?
Posted on March 25, 2024
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| Jenniffer Sheldon
Sexual healingRelationshipsAfter 40 years of marriage, she is looking for a ‘friend with benefits’. Where can we find a sexual partner she can trust?
We are a retired couple who have been married for 40 years. I adore my wife and she adores me. We still have an active sex life, but we have talked about her finding another sexual partner to be with on occasion. Neither of us approves of going online to find one.
[Read More]Paying the Land by Joe Sacco review a triumph of empathy
Posted on March 25, 2024
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| Kary Bruening
Book of the dayJoe SaccoReviewThe painful history of the Northwestern Territory’s indigenous people takes the celebrated cartoonist away from AK47s and mortar shells, and into a different kind of war
There is a moment, in his 2003 collection Notes from a Defeatist, when you can see Joe Sacco finding out exactly what he was meant to do. The pieces have been competent enough so far – satires of office grunts and nerdy librarians, of a “cartoon genius” trying not very hard not to sell out; exercises in a familiar kind of knowing autobiographical bathos.
[Read More]The big-eyed children: the extraordinary story of an epic art fraud
Posted on March 25, 2024
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| Jenniffer Sheldon
PaintingIn the 1960s, Walter Keane was feted for his sentimental portraits that sold by the million. But in fact, his wife Margaret was the artist, working in virtual slavery to maintain his success. She tells her story, now the subject of a Tim Burton biopicThere’s a sweet, small suburban house in the vineyards of Napa, northern California. Inside, a family of devout Jehovah’s Witnesses bustles around, offering me a cheese plate.
[Read More]The Change review Bridget Christies super-cool menopause comedy is like nothing else on TV
Posted on March 25, 2024
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| Jenniffer Sheldon
TV reviewTelevision & radioReviewShe decides to take back 3.5 million minutes of domestic drudgery, jump on a motorcycle and set off on a voyage of self discovery. Hot flushes have never looked hotter! Did no one think to cast standup Bridget Christie in the upcoming Barbie movie? If it’s true, as Christie asserts, that “The Hulk is the only menopausal role model in the history of TV and film”, then having Christie play Menopausal Barbie alongside Issa Rae as President Barbie and Nicola Coughlan as Diplomat Barbie in Greta Gerwig’s panorama of modern womanhood might have helped.
[Read More]A Serious Man trailer: another gem to savour from the Coen brothers | Coen brothers
Posted on March 24, 2024
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| Aldo Pusey
Film blogCoen brothersA Serious Man trailer: another gem to savour from the Coen brothersWho else would use the sound of a head striking a blackboard as the base rhythm for a suburban comedy promo?The Coen brothers give good trailer. From the strikingly stylish and suspenseful promo for their debut, Blood Simple, to the intoxicatingly scattershot ragbag of images used to promote The Big Lebowski, and the ominous spaces and desert-dry wit of the No Country for Old Men ad, their trailers are finely-turned shorts that faithfully sample the flavour of the feature in question while offering a hand-rubbingly delicious trip of their own.
[Read More]Chapecoense named Copa Sudamericana winners after plane crash | Colombia plane crash 2016
Posted on March 24, 2024
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| Jenniffer Sheldon
Colombia plane crash 2016 This article is more than 7 years oldChapecoense named Copa Sudamericana winners after plane crashThis article is more than 7 years old Brazilian side had been due to face Atlético Nacional in final
Nacional awarded Conmebol’s Fair Play awardChapecoense have been crowned winners of the Copa Sudamericana after the Brazilian club’s plane crashed while travelling to the final.
'What he did was mass murder': little sympathy for Colombia plane crash pilotRead moreThe jet carrying the Chapecoense team, along with club officials and journalists, to Medellín for the final against the Colombian side Atlético Nacional came down on Monday last week, killing 71 people including 19 players.
[Read More]Enough review inside story of the Trump White House by star witness at Capitol riot hearings
Posted on March 24, 2024
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| Jenniffer Sheldon
Observer book of the weekPolitics booksReviewWhistleblower and former aide Cassidy Hutchinson dishes the dirt – from crockery-based temper tantrums to sexual harassment – on the former president and his cast of underlings
Every legal drama needs a surprise witness. Until June last year, the congressional hearings to investigate the attempted coup at the US Capitol in January 2021 were unsurprising: Democrats presented evidence that Trump had riled up the incendiary mob, to which Republicans responded with regurgitated abuse.
[Read More]Gina Fratini obituary | Dresses
Posted on March 24, 2024
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| Valentine Belue
DressesObituaryGina Fratini obituaryDress designer who specialised in flattering, flowing garments that attracted princesses among her clienteleTextiles were not what fashion was about in the first half of the 1960s, when an adequately outrageous outfit could be extracted from a short, narrow length of Acrilan, Dicel or Bri-Nylon. That was not the style of Gina Fratini, who has died aged 85; her interest was in the stuffs themselves, preferably natural fibres, in quantity.
[Read More]Jean Charles de Menezes | UK news
Posted on March 24, 2024
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| Aldo Pusey
Letters: In 2005, an innocent man, Jean Charles de Menezes, was shot dead by police in London as a suspected terrorist. Those who call for a shoot-to-kill policy should bear this in mind
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Megan Fox yields to Sacha Baron Cohen's Dictator | Sacha Baron Cohen
Posted on March 24, 2024
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| Chauncey Koziol
Sacha Baron Cohen This article is more than 12 years oldMegan Fox yields to Sacha Baron Cohen's DictatorThis article is more than 12 years oldStar, reportedly fired from Transformers for comparing director with Hitler, to join different 'dictator' in Baron Cohen's forthcoming comedyIf Megan Fox has a problem with megalomaniacs, she has a funny way of showing it. The ex-Transformers star, who was reportedly fired for comparing director Michael Bay with Hitler, has signed up for a cameo in new Sacha Baron Cohen vehicle The Dictator.
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