Hipster hats: the art of 'helixing' | Fashion
Posted on June 3, 2024
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| Jenniffer Sheldon
FashionHipster hats: the art of 'helixing'In menswear, the only way to wear a beanie these days is perched on the crown of your head with your ears exposed. Completely impractical but completely on trend. Here’s how to do it
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[Read More]I just wasnt being honest: a true crime author confronts the NT justice system and himself
Posted on June 3, 2024
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| Kary Bruening
True crime booksWhen journalist Dan Box began looking into a murder case, his goal was to win a Walkley. But a friendship and a tragedy put him at the centre of the story
Get our weekend culture and lifestyle email “I’ll be completely blunt with you, I hated writing that book,” Dan Box says over the phone, his two-year-old daughter jostling for attention in the background. Box’s measured Midlands accent would be familiar to listeners of Bowraville, the Walkey-winning podcast that the Shropshire-raised, Bundeena-based journalist produced for the Australian newspaper in 2016 and later turned into a book.
[Read More]Its extortionate: a mothers struggle to afford rising price of baby formula
Posted on June 3, 2024
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| Valentine Belue
Children This article is more than 1 month oldThis article is more than 1 month oldLone parent Rebecca Anderson feels women in UK who do not breastfeed are being penalised after 25% price rise
Iceland boss hits out at parent ‘exploitation’ in baby milk market Rebecca Anderson, 37, knows how it feels to be on the sharp end of baby formula price rises. A civil servant and lone parent in Middlesbrough, Anderson has noticed the price tag on the formula she feeds her 10-month-old son has been rising since he was born, reaching £13.
[Read More]Naples Fontanelle cemetery: skulls and silence beneath the busy city streets
Posted on June 3, 2024
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| Kary Bruening
The ossuary at Cimitero delle Fontanelle, Naples. Photograph: AlamyThe ossuary at Cimitero delle Fontanelle, Naples. Photograph: AlamyFree worldNaples holidaysIn an underground chamber in the Italian city, the skulls of plague victims are stacked high but the traditions surrounding their preservation are ultimately uplifting, telling us a lot about the human capacity for caring
Given the choice, most people would not enter a shadowy underground chamber stacked high with human skeletons. However, with an understanding of the Neapolitan fetish for skull iconography, a visit to Cimitero delle Fontanelle provides an unlikely calming and reflective antidote to Naples’ frenzied street life.
[Read More]Plant of the week: Carolina allspice
Posted on June 3, 2024
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| Chauncey Koziol
Plant of the weekGardening adviceAn aromatic, handsome shrub that produces an edible spiceWhat is it? It's a little bit country. Hailing from the Appalachian and Smoky mountains, this is a spice-producing bush to enjoy from your porch swing. Carolina allspice (Calycanthus floridus) is a lovely thing, a compact and handsome shrub (growing to 2.5m in height and 3m spread), with glossy leaves and small, deep red, waxy flowers. The leaves have buttery autumn colour.
[Read More]Sunderland's Ji Dong-won shocks Manchester City with last-gasp winner | Premier League 2011-12
Posted on June 3, 2024
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| Chauncey Koziol
Premier League 2011-12Sunderland's Ji Dong-won shocks Manchester City with last-gasp winnerForget walking on the River Wear, Martin O'Neill could probably have tap-danced across it on Sunday night. Sunderland's new manager has long been known as an exceptional motivator but defeating Manchester City with an alarmingly makeshift team must ranks among his finest achievements.
Secured courtesy of a controversy-tinged, if cleverly taken, 93rd-minute goal from the South Korean substitute Ji Dong-won and featuring two midfielders filling in at full-back, O'Neill's triumph represented a potentially significant blow to Manchester City's title hopes.
[Read More]The Lifespan of a Fact review sparky journalism dramedy falls short of big ideas
Posted on June 3, 2024
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| Chauncey Koziol
A play ‘for subeditors and their loved ones’: Sigrid Thornton and Charles Wu in The Lifespan of a Fact. Photograph: Prudence UptonA play ‘for subeditors and their loved ones’: Sigrid Thornton and Charles Wu in The Lifespan of a Fact. Photograph: Prudence UptonStageReviewSydney Theatre Company
Sigrid Thornton and Charles Wu star in a rapid-fire play, recounting US essayist John D’Agata’s real-life run-in with a pedantic fact-checker
When it comes to selling real estate, says dissembling Simpsons regular Lionel Hutz to Marge Simpson, “there’s the truth … and there’s the truth!
[Read More]Tokyos coin-operated laundries in pictures | World news
Posted on June 3, 2024
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| Kary Bruening
Tokyo’s coin-operated laundries – in pictures Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email There are an estimated 20,000 coin-operated laundries across Japan, a number that has doubled in the last two decades. In addition to the usual services, they provide speciality machines for cleaning sports shoes, pillows and heavy blankets. For Philip Fong they are a novelty not found in his hometown of Hong Kong.
[Read More]A moment that changed me: the mystery teenage illness that ruined my life then saved it
Posted on June 2, 2024
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| Chauncey Koziol
A moment that changed meLife and styleOne morning I couldn’t get out of bed, and the tiredness and weight gain kept getting worse. It was a year of bodily trauma that left psychological as well as physical scars
Forty years ago, during the baking “long hot summer” immortalised by the Style Council’s song of the same name, my teenage body started to undergo a mysterious, unwelcome and life-upending transformation. I’d just finished my O-levels: as a treat my mother took me to Paris for a holiday.
[Read More]Bad Gyal: 'Young people feel really represented by reggaeton' | Music
Posted on June 2, 2024
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| Jenniffer Sheldon
MusicInterviewBad Gyal: 'Young people feel really represented by reggaeton'Rachel AroestiThe Catalan star has shot to fame with a bass-heavy, melancholic dancehall hybrid – and she says the sound is liberating for women
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