Body in cupboard killer jailed for life | UK news
Posted on June 11, 2024
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UK newsBody in cupboard killer jailed for lifeViolent loner with 'crazy artist' delusions stabbed young cabaret dancerA violent loner with delusions of building a "crazy artist" image was jailed for life yesterday for stabbing a young cabaret dancer to death and cramming her body into a refuse cupboard.
Michael Little was convicted of luring Rachel Moran, 21, into his litter-strewn flat on New Year's Day and lying about her until police discovered decomposing remains behind a barricade of rubbish sacks.
[Read More]Did Jesus have a strong regional accent? | Notes and Queries
Posted on June 11, 2024
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YESTERYEARDid Jesus have a strong regional accent? Jesús Sanchis-Calabuig, Valencia, Spain
A woman who was present when Peter denied having known Jesus on the night of Jesus's arrest comments that Peter must at least have known him, since he had an obvious Galillee accent (the conversation took place in Jerusalem). We can infer that Jesus had a similar accent, but how strong we will never know. J Osman, Leeds I was told at school that Jesus's Galilean accent heard by a resident of Jerusalem would have been analogous to a Geordie accent heard by a resident of London.
[Read More]Emma Watson taking legal action after private photo hack | Emma Watson
Posted on June 11, 2024
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Emma Watson This article is more than 6 years oldEmma Watson taking legal action after private photo hackThis article is more than 6 years oldThe Beauty and the Beast star has instructed lawyers over ‘not nude’ pictures that were allegedly stolen and posted online
Emma Watson is taking legal action after private photos of the star were allegedly stolen and leaked online.
Emma Watson: feminist to the core or carefully polished brand?
[Read More]Flatley gets $11m settlement over sexual assault claims | World news
Posted on June 11, 2024
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The ObserverWorld newsFlatley gets $11m settlement over sexual assault claimsMichael Flatley has accepted an $11m (€7.5m) settlement in a lawsuit against a woman who he says falsely accused him of sexual assault and attempted to extort money from him.
The former star of Riverdance had lodged a $100m action over claims made by Tyna Marie Robertson. In California on Friday, Flatley agreed to a settlement after the state's supreme court heard that the accusations were false and part of a scheme to extort millions of dollars from him.
[Read More]Leon Greene obituary | Film
Posted on June 11, 2024
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FilmObituaryLeon Greene obituaryOpera singer turned actor who made his mark in stage and screen versions of A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the ForumLeon Greene, who has died of cancer aged 89, was a Sadler’s Wells opera singer who took his bass baritone voice to the West End stage to play the self-important Roman soldier Miles Gloriosus in the original London production of Stephen Sondheim’s musical comedy A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum.
[Read More]Perv: The Sexual Deviant in All of Us by Jesse Bering review
Posted on June 11, 2024
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BooksReviewWe cannot choose who we are sexually attracted to – so stop judgingNot many pop-science books open with a breezy confession that the author once masturbated to an image of a Neanderthal, but then Jesse Bering thinks the social emotion of shame is corrosive and that we should all be more open about our own sexual quirks and kinks. Admirable, then, that he has the balls (so to speak) to go first.
[Read More]Spite buildings: when human grudges get architectural in pictures | Cities
Posted on June 11, 2024
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Room without a view ... Alameda spite house, San Francisco Bay Area, California. Photograph: ElfFeuding brothers, thwarted lovers, and a lot of spoiled views: ‘spite buildings’ are our smallest human pettiness made manifest in bricks and mortar. Here are some of the best/worst
by Aidan Mac Guill“Spite buildings” are constructions specifically intended to irritate or protest: our smallest human pettiness made manifest in bricks, mortar and a reckless disregard for planning laws.
[Read More]Theyre Going to Love You by Meg Howrey review a New York story of ballet and betrayal
Posted on June 11, 2024
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The author notices how dancing en pointe ‘weaponises’ ballet for adolescent girls. Photograph: David Levene/The GuardianThe author notices how dancing en pointe ‘weaponises’ ballet for adolescent girls. Photograph: David Levene/The GuardianThe ObserverFictionReviewA choreographer’s long estrangement from her father drives this compelling novel shaped by the 80s Aids crisis, written with detail by a former dancer
For Carlisle Martin, a dance-obsessed girl growing up with her mother in Ohio, an annual fortnight with her father and his boyfriend in their Greenwich Village home exuded impossible glamour.
[Read More]Land of shuang bao tai: twins in Yunnan province a photo essay | China
Posted on June 10, 2024
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Twins wearing ribbons advertise the Tropic of Cancer twin festival at Mojiang’s night market. Photograph: Bénédicte KurzenShuang bao tai 双胞胎 is the Chinese word for twin. Following on from Land of Ibeji, Sanne de Wilde and Bénédicte Kurzen travel to Mojiang in Yunnan for the second chapter of their project about the mythology of twinhood. The area has an exceptionally high percentage of twins, celebrated in its annual tropic of cancer twin festival
[Read More]Madonna of the Yarnwinder: A critic's view | Art theft
Posted on June 10, 2024
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Art theft This article is more than 13 years oldMadonna of the Yarnwinder: A critic's viewThis article is more than 13 years oldTender sketch, with merest hint of geniusEver since his 20s, when he drew a toddler playing with a cat in a series of impressionistic sketches, Leonardo da Vinci had tried to capture the fun of children at play. In his design for The Madonna of the Yarnwinder, he achieved it.
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