Speaking to Ira Glass over Zoom is a slightly befuddling experience. His unique voice and speaking style, intensely conversational with lots of pregnant pauses and rising inflections in unlikely places, is now so recognisable that it is easy to...
“As soon as you stop looking, you’ll find it.” This is something that single people in search of love always get told, and it’s very annoying – doubly so when it invariably turns out to be true. Music is...
Sled dogs have helped hunters traverse the region for more than 4,000 years – often saving their handlers’ lives. Yet with climate change, the faithful hounds’ days could be numbered. Photographer Ragnar Axelsson’s tribute to the Arctic Heroes
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In 1931, Noël Coward was the highest-earning author in the western world, celebrated for his scintillating comedies and sensational dramas of hidden love such as The Vortex, Private Lives and Easy Virtue. As well as writing hit songs, musicals,...
Harold Budd, the left-field American composer whose work straddled minimalism, jazz, dream-pop and more, has died aged 84.A post on his official Facebook page said he had died from “complications of Covid-19”. A family friend told the Guardian Budd...
The lead character in Raised By Wolves is Mother, an android tasked with bringing up a young human family on a faraway planet. But things soon go wrong. Mother starts wildly overreacting to the tiniest provocation, then murders her...
With his 2017 debut album, Common Sense, east London artist J Hus made a visceral impact. Nominated for the Mercury prize as well as pretty much every other UK music award going, it was an exquisite record that pulled...
Chart-topping US rapper A Boogie Wit Da Hoodie has been arrested and charged over gun and drug offences.The 25-year-old rapper, real name Artist Julius Dubose, was arrested alongside his security guard Quashaun Hagler. Prosecutors say a search of his...
Stories about mermaids emerged from our collective unconscious, are thousands of years old and found globally. Contrary to Disney’s cute film about bikini-clad, red-haired Ariel, these myths and tales are mostly quite grim.
They have several tropes in common: the...
If you’ve seen the trailer for Wild Mountain Thyme, writer-director John Patrick Shanley’s not-quite-a-romcom about two thirtysomething “star-crossed” (slow to settle into their inevitable pairing) lovers/farmers in rural Ireland, then you’ve most likely slammed into the question: what is...
Speaking to Ira Glass over Zoom is a slightly befuddling experience. His unique voice and speaking style, intensely conversational with lots of pregnant pauses...