Chris Kraus regards the late success of her first book, I Love Dick, with ambivalence. A work of autofiction, first published in 1997, it chronicles Kraus’s infatuation with a cultural theorist named Dick, a doomed, one-sided love affair that…
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Sia receives huge demand from estranged husband
Sia’s estranged husband asking for more the 250,000 dollars per month Sia’s estranged husband is demanding more than $250,000 per month in spousal support.
The 49-year-old singer filed for divorce from her…
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Baggy, skinny … or neither? Why ‘Goldilocks’ jeans are having a moment | Jeans
When it comes to fashion power struggles, there is no greater battle than the one between baggy and skinny jeans. But now a new style is emerging, or is it an old one?
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DJ Fatboy Slim calls historic Brighton beach gig proud moment
Getty ImagesDJ Fatboy Slim, real name Norman Cook, is celebrating 40 years in music Fatboy Slim’s famous gig on Brighton beach cemented his love for the city he calls home, the DJ has said.
The open-air show in 2002, known as Big Beach Boutique II,…
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‘It was a binding experience’: TV producers mourn decline of hot 9pm slot | Television industry
Last month something unusual happened in the television world. At 9pm, traditionally a crucial time slot for Britain’s main broadcasters, none of their shows were able to attract an average audience of 1 million viewers.
An ITV documentary about…
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My cultural awakening: ‘Kate Bush helped me come out as a trans woman’ | Kate Bush
It wasn’t safe for me to discover The Sensual World, the eponymous track on what Kate Bush described as her “most female album”. The song was intended to be a rejection of the masculine influence that had unwittingly shaped the artist’s…
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Triple Trouble: Fairey, Hirst, Invader review – the most revolting visual soup imaginable | Art
You’ve heard of the best of both worlds, well get ready for the worst of three. Down in Vauxhall in London, three artists have mashed themselves together to create the most revolting visual soup imaginable, an exhibition that isn’t so much…
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TV tonight: a French psychological thriller about a ‘perfect’ nanny | Television & radio
The Intruder
9pm, BBC Four
A claustrophobic “don’t trust the perfect nanny!” psychological French thriller from the creators of Paris Police 1900. When wealthy mother of three Paula (Mélanie Doutey) returns to work, she and her husband hire…
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Six great reads: Trump v Nato, the ‘filthy fifteen’ and the rise of selfish self-help |
1. ‘I’m leaving,’ Trump said. ‘There’s no reason to be here any more’: inside the meeting that brought Nato to the brink
Donald Trump with Jens Stoltenberg in 2019. Photograph: Shealah Craighead/The White House In a nail-biting extract…
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Blind date: ‘After too many tepid, app-based dates, outsourcing my love life to a paper is obviously the way to go’ | Dating
Hannah on Ioan
What were you hoping for?
A fun evening with a stranger … hopefully good chat and not painfully awkward.First impressions?
Warm, friendly and charismatic.What did you talk about?
What didn’t we talk about? We discussed the dating…Continue Reading
