The Best Painting of ... hunters at night | Art
Posted on March 23, 2024
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Jonathan Jones on artArtThe Best Painting of ... hunters at nightToday I launch the first of several serials on my blog. The Best Painting of ... takes one painting that I argue is the best of all time of some specific subject or theme (eg the best sunrise, the best painting of a British man o' war being tugged to its last resting place ... ) and, of course, I welcome debate on my selection.
[Read More]Brooke Shields: I got out pretty unscathed | Fashion
Posted on March 22, 2024
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Brooke Shields: ‘I was famous from the neck up.’ Photograph: Philip Gay/The GuardianBrooke Shields: ‘I was famous from the neck up.’ Photograph: Philip Gay/The GuardianWeekend magazine fashion special autumn/winter 2017FashionInterviewBrooke Shields: ‘I got out pretty unscathed’Tom ShoneIn the early 80s, she was the most famous teenager on the planet – modelling for Calvin Klein and hanging out at Studio 54. What happened next?
Brooke Shields has just got back from a lunch at the Lincoln Center, to mark the opening of New York fashion week.
[Read More]Class of 07 review apocalyptic high school reunion comedy gets better as it goes
Posted on March 22, 2024
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| Jenniffer Sheldon
TelevisionReviewEmily Browning and Caitlin Stasey are excellent in this take on ‘the poco’, where a bunch of 28-year-olds must survive together
Get our weekend culture and lifestyle email What’s worse than going to your high school reunion? Being there when the apocalypse strikes and finding yourself doomed to see out your final days with people you’ve spent years running from. This is the premise of Class of ’07, a new eight-part Amazon Prime comedy that follows a group of 28-year-olds as they navigate life after a huge climate event maroons them on the newly formed island that was once their all-girls high school.
[Read More]Danny Brown review a thrilling bounce back
Posted on March 22, 2024
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| Kary Bruening
‘Whipping the crowd into stiff peaks’: Danny Brown at Village Underground, London. Photograph: Antonio Olmos/The Observer‘Whipping the crowd into stiff peaks’: Danny Brown at Village Underground, London. Photograph: Antonio Olmos/The ObserverKitty Empire's artist of the weekDanny BrownReviewVillage Underground, London
Revitalised after a spell in rehab, and touring two of the finest albums of the year, the maverick Detroit rapper revels in a set of high-energy, hardcore joy
In April, the cult US rapper Danny Brown went into rehab.
[Read More]Doug Scott obituary | Mountaineering
Posted on March 22, 2024
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| Chauncey Koziol
MountaineeringObituaryDoug Scott obituaryFirst Englishman to climb Everest who dedicated his later years to Buddhism and helping the people of Nepal
Doug Scott, who has died aged 79 from cancer, was the first Englishman to climb Everest, but it was what happened afterwards that made him famous in the mountaineering world.
Scott and his Scottish partner, Dougal Haston, were part of Chris Bonington’s 1975 expedition to climb Everest the “hard way”, via the south-west face.
[Read More]John Oliver on Israel-Hamas war: Any conversation around this has to begin with empathy
Posted on March 22, 2024
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| Jenniffer Sheldon
John Oliver recapJohn OliverThe Last Week Tonight host delves into the war between Israel and Hamas, focusing on the failures of leadership by Hamas and Benjamin Netanyahu
John Oliver waded into the war between Israel and Hamas on Sunday evening, with a particular focus on the leadership undergirding the conflict. There wasn’t enough time to talk about the history of the Middle East – “I’m actually technically a comedy show, I just hide it better than most,” said Oliver on Last Week Tonight – or recap “thousands of years of generational trauma informing the response to this, including the Holocaust and the Nakba or mass violent displacement of Palestinians during and after Israel’s founding”.
[Read More]Murderer jailed for life after police overheard prayer for forgiveness | Crime
Posted on March 22, 2024
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| Valentine Belue
Crime This article is more than 14 years oldMurderer jailed for life after police overheard prayer for forgivenessThis article is more than 14 years oldPolice bugged George Maben's car after his girlfriend's mother was strangled and caught him praying to God for helpA man convicted of murdering his girlfriend's mother after police overheard his prayers for forgiveness was jailed for life today.
George Maben, 45, strangled Maureen Cosgrove, 65, in her home on 24 March this year.
[Read More]The 100 best novels: No 37 Hadrian the Seventh by Frederick Rolfe (1904)
Posted on March 22, 2024
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| Jenniffer Sheldon
The 100 best novelsFictionThis entertaining if contrived story of a hack writer and priest who becomes pope sheds vivid light on its eccentric author – described by DH Lawrence as a 'man-demon'Frederick Rolfe, who also styled himself "Baron Corvo" (and sometimes gave his full name as Frederick William Serafino Austin Lewis Mary Rolfe), is one of the strangest fish in the exotic aquarium of Edwardian literature. His masterpiece, Hadrian the Seventh, is both a book of its epoch – orchidaceous, eccentric and weirdly obsessive, some would say mad – as well as being, in DH Lawrence's summary, "
[Read More]The WeedTubers: these people make a living getting stoned on YouTube
Posted on March 22, 2024
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| Aldo Pusey
DrugsThese entrepreneurial twentysomethings are riding a wave of marijuana legalization to online celebrity. Call them Cheech and Chong for the digital age
Josh Young smokes weed before he eats breakfast. He gets high before lunch, too, again before dinner, and usually one or two more times on top of that. Most days, on at least a few of those occasions, he’s filming it for his YouTube channel, StrainCentral, which has more than 373,000 subscribers.
[Read More]Threat to Gretna's secret loves | UK news
Posted on March 22, 2024
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| Chauncey Koziol
The ObserverUK newsThreat to Gretna's secret lovesFor centuries Gretna Green has been the favoured destination of young lovers, forced to run away from disapproving parents to tie the knot.
But anyone planning to elope there for a secret wedding will now have to act quickly. The Scottish Executive has announced plans to introduce a law which will mean that a list of every forthcoming marriage in the country will be displayed on the internet.
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