I can't stand my in-laws. Why do I feel such rage towards them?

 Posted on April 4, 2024  |  5 minutes  |  878 words  |  Kary Bruening

Ask Annalisa BarbieriFamilyFollow your anger down to the source to see what you are really afraid of, says Annalisa Barbieri I am really struggling with my parents-in-law. My feelings about them changed after the birth of our two children. I can no longer stand the sight or sound of them. When our first child was born I was very ill, yet they stormed away from the hospital because of a perceived slight. [Read More]

I Hate You review like watching two grown women possessed by the spirit of puerile teenage boys

 Posted on April 4, 2024  |  4 minutes  |  792 words  |  Valentine Belue

TV reviewTelevisionReviewThree episodes in, I couldn’t take any more of Robert Popper’s new ‘comedy’ about two unbearable friends. It’s confusing, underwhelming and has no idea what it’s meant to be Last weekend I saw some standup. It was a variety show, a sort of mix-tape of live comedians, held together by a compere and lapped up by an audience of regulars who knew all the running jokes that clearly happened every time this particular night was on. [Read More]

It was angry, vicious: spate of squirrel attacks leave NYC neighborhood in fear | Animals

 Posted on April 4, 2024  |  3 minutes  |  533 words  |  Chauncey Koziol

Animals This article is more than 3 years old‘It was angry, vicious’: spate of squirrel attacks leave NYC neighborhood in fearThis article is more than 3 years oldAt least three people in Rego Park, in Queens, have been jumped upon and bitten by a possibly deranged squirrel New York City is not known for hair-raising animal experiences – save for the odd pizza-loving rat – but one city neighborhood is being subjected to an unwelcome slice of the wild by being terrorized by a highly aggressive squirrel. [Read More]

Man shoots nail into brain and thinks nothing of it | US news

 Posted on April 4, 2024  |  3 minutes  |  436 words  |  Valentine Belue

US news This article is more than 12 years oldMan shoots nail into brain and thinks nothing of itThis article is more than 12 years oldDante Autullo believed he was only grazed when nailgun went off and didn't believe doctors when they showed him X-rayA man has survived firing a nailgun into his own brain – in what surgeons worryingly said was not an unheard-of occurrence. Dante Autullo of Chicago thought doctors were joking, feeling sure he had only been grazed by the nail when it flew past as he was building a shed. [Read More]

Pam Shriver had traumatic relationship with 50-year-old coach when she was 17 | Tennis

 Posted on April 4, 2024  |  3 minutes  |  577 words  |  Kary Bruening

Sexual abuse in sportTennis This article is more than 1 year oldPam Shriver had ‘traumatic’ relationship with 50-year-old coach when she was 17This article is more than 1 year oldGrand slam champion warns problem is common in tennisAbuse in sport has become prominent topic in recent yearsThe 22-time grand slam doubles champion Pam Shriver says she had an “inappropriate and damaging relationship” with her coach which started when she was a teenager, and has warned that similar scenarios are commonplace in tennis. [Read More]

The Bard goes bare: The Tempest performed naked in New York | Stage

 Posted on April 4, 2024  |  5 minutes  |  968 words  |  Valentine Belue

Rude mechanicals: Reanna Roane, as Ariel, perches on a rock in Central Park. Photograph: Kathy Willens/APRude mechanicals: Reanna Roane, as Ariel, perches on a rock in Central Park. Photograph: Kathy Willens/APStage This article is more than 7 years oldThe Bard goes bare: The Tempest performed naked in New YorkThis article is more than 7 years oldTo celebrate Shakespeare’s birthday and to promote normalisation of nudity, an all-women group are performing his final play naked in Central Park [Read More]

'I almost wet myself laughing': 50 funny podcasts to make you feel much better | Podcasts

 Posted on April 3, 2024  |  19 minutes  |  3904 words  |  Kary Bruening

Composite: Guardian Design TeamHas your daily walk become an endless trudge to nowhere? These podcasts, chosen by comedians, podcasters, Guardian writers and readers, are guaranteed to bring a smile to your face The Beef and Dairy NetworkI love the expansive and imaginative universe that Ben Partridge has created with this podcast. Ben plays the host, who is cheery to the point of derangement. He interviews all kinds of returning characters (such as Eli Roberts, the terrifying abattoir owner/cult leader/mosquito farmer), who are played by some of my favourite comedians. [Read More]

Behind the Scenes at the Museum by Kate Atkinson - review | Children's books

 Posted on April 3, 2024  |  2 minutes  |  418 words  |  Jenniffer Sheldon

Children's booksChildren's booksBehind the Scenes at the Museum by Kate Atkinson - review'It is a book of secrets which only get revealed at the end - it's like opening a treasure box'I cried all night after this one. This is the most brilliant tragi-comedy, constantly developing. It spans quite literally the centuries, from the 1990s to the 1800s. It combines a thousand threads of stories, all centring around one family, certainly the most complex one I've ever heard of it. [Read More]

Birdcage Walk by Helen Dunmore review a marriage suffused with menace

 Posted on April 3, 2024  |  4 minutes  |  844 words  |  Kary Bruening

Book of the dayFictionReviewA haunting depiction of domestic constraints set in Bristol at the time of the French RevolutionBarry Unsworth, whose Sacred Hunger shared the 1992 Booker prize with Michael Ondaatje’s The English Patient, mistrusted an addiction to historical minutiae when it came to evoking the past in fiction. “What matters,” he said, “is trying to get hold of the spirit of the age, what it was like to be alive in that age, what it felt like to be an ordinary person in the margins of history. [Read More]

From stolen nudes to rape chat: the horrific drama tackling the sexual assault epidemic in UK

 Posted on April 3, 2024  |  8 minutes  |  1499 words  |  Valentine Belue

TelevisionSexual violence is so normalised that 59% of young women have been harasssed. The creators and stars of bold new show Consent explain this awful culture – and why it’s worse in private schools Natalie has just joined an independent sixth form as a scholarship student. She fancies her friend Alice’s brother, Archie – a star pupil destined for Oxbridge. Archie really likes her, too. But his friends use a WhatsApp group to constantly pressure him into having sex (“We’re basically paying her fees; she can pay on her knees”) and share links to porn. [Read More]