R&A CEO Martin Slumbers announces surprise exit amid golfs turmoil | The Royal and Ancient Golf C

 Posted on June 14, 2024  |  3 minutes  |  606 words  |  Aldo Pusey

The Royal and Ancient Golf ClubR&A CEO Martin Slumbers announces surprise exit amid golf’s turmoilCEO will depart golf’s ruling body by end of yearWillingness to court Saudi Arabia had raised eyebrowsThe R&A has surprisingly announced Martin Slumbers is to leave his role as the chief executive. Slumbers, 63, has been in position since succeeding Peter Dawson in 2015. He will depart golf’s ruling body by the end of this year, with a recruitment team already having been appointed to find a new chief executive. [Read More]

Banksy online auction for Ukraine targeted by hostile attacks from Russia | Banksy

 Posted on June 13, 2024  |  4 minutes  |  691 words  |  Aldo Pusey

The set of 50 limited-edition screenprints were auctioned to raise money for Ukraine. Photograph: Legacy of War FoundationThe set of 50 limited-edition screenprints were auctioned to raise money for Ukraine. Photograph: Legacy of War FoundationBanksy This article is more than 1 year oldBanksy online auction for Ukraine targeted by ‘hostile attacks’ from RussiaThis article is more than 1 year oldLegacy of War Foundation says there were 3,500 rogue registrations for £5,000 limited edition screenprints [Read More]

Catherine Fried obituary | Art

 Posted on June 13, 2024  |  2 minutes  |  411 words  |  Chauncey Koziol

Other livesArtObituaryCatherine Fried obituaryMy mother-in-law, Catherine Fried, who has died aged 78, was an artist, photographer and sculptor who turned to writing , and whose first book was published when she was 72. The title of her memoir of her marriage to the Austrian poet Erich Fried, Über Kurz Oder Lang, means ‘“sooner or later”, and plays on the German words for short and long, referring to the couple’s disparity in height. [Read More]

Courtney Hadwin: the County Durham 14-year-old who wowed America | Pop and rock

 Posted on June 13, 2024  |  4 minutes  |  671 words  |  Valentine Belue

Pop and rockInterviewCourtney Hadwin: the County Durham 14-year-old who wowed AmericaSam WollastonWith her astonishing voice and stage presence, channelling Janis Joplin and James Brown, Hadwin made it to the America’s Got Talent final this week – but misses her dog back home ‘I’m just a normal teenage kid,” says Courtney Hadwin. And she sounds it, dead shy on a bad line from Los Angeles. And she looked like just a normal teenage kid earlier this summer, when she first shuffled awkwardly on stage in a floral dress before the judges on America’s Got Talent. [Read More]

Five steps for gardeners to take control of slugs the natural way | Live Better

 Posted on June 13, 2024  |  7 minutes  |  1382 words  |  Kary Bruening

Live BetterFive steps for gardeners to take control of slugs the natural wayInundated with slimy pests? Follow these practical tips so that you, and only you, get to eat the fruits of your harvest A number of years ago I started a forest garden in the middle of a very wet woodland, in the midst of a slug stronghold – I could easily collect a large jarful of them at dusk. [Read More]

How Pepsi and Coke make millions bottling tap water, as residents face shutoffs | US news

 Posted on June 13, 2024  |  10 minutes  |  2025 words  |  Jenniffer Sheldon

Bottles of Coca-Cola’s Dasani brand water move along the production line. Photograph: George Frey/Bloomberg via Getty ImagesThe drinks giants were allowed to keep bottling in Detroit, despite substantial uncollected water bills, a Consumer Reports investigation finds by Ryan Felton of Consumer ReportsIn recent weeks, on a quiet stretch of Detroit’s west side dotted with vacant homes, a 262,000 sq ft Coca-Cola manufacturing facility has buzzed with activity, even as many businesses in Michigan were ordered by the state to temporarily close to combat the coronavirus pandemic. [Read More]

Prisoners death spotlights solitary confinement injustices in Louisiana | US prisons

 Posted on June 13, 2024  |  6 minutes  |  1113 words  |  Kary Bruening

US prisons This article is more than 1 year oldPrisoner’s death spotlights solitary confinement injustices in LouisianaThis article is more than 1 year oldJamal Harris died after being denied medical attention, as fellow prisoners describe freezing and unsanitary cells On the night of 12 November 2022 Jamal Harris, 23, who was being held in solitary segregation at Elayn Hunt correctional facility in St Gabriel, Louisiana, died by suicide after fellow prisoners and Harris’s mother claim he was consistently denied his psychiatric medication and requests for medical emergency help. [Read More]

Stevie Wonder every studio album ranked! | Stevie Wonder

 Posted on June 13, 2024  |  12 minutes  |  2362 words  |  Kary Bruening

Unbridled joy … Stevie Wonder on Top of the Pops, 1971. Photograph: Ron Howard/RedfernsFrom his teenage years on Motown to his funk masterpieces of the 70s and later pop ballads, Stevie Wonder’s music is nothing but joyous. Ahead of his performance in London’s Hyde Park this weekend, we rank an incomparable body of work by Alexis Petridis25. With A Song In My Heart (1963)Who wants to hear a 12-year-old singing Great American Songbook standards? [Read More]

The house is a part of history: inside the museum dedicated to JFKs killer

 Posted on June 13, 2024  |  9 minutes  |  1882 words  |  Aldo Pusey

TexasFor owner and curator Patricia Puckett-Hall, the home where Lee Harvey Oswald spent six weeks represents a mission – to correct the narrative around the most hated man in the US Across from a strip mall, on a suburban street stands an ordinary looking house: a clipped lawn, row of bushes, Stars and Stripes flying on a flagpole, red tiled roof, green floored porch and white, ornately patterned front door. But a yard sign indicates something is different here: “Oswald Rooming House Museum. [Read More]

Top 10 books about fathers and sons

 Posted on June 13, 2024  |  6 minutes  |  1214 words  |  Valentine Belue

Top 10sAutobiography and memoirIn memoirs by authors from Philip Roth to Michael Frayn, the Dad-Lit genre is always a little oedipal but there is also room for warmer feelings The first father-son story to leave a mark on me had Abraham, on God’s orders, preparing to kill his only son: “He bound Isaac and laid him on the altar, on top of the wood. Then he reached out his hand and took the knife …” God then calls off the infanticide; a ram is sacrificed instead. [Read More]