The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry by Rachel Joyce review

 Posted on May 1, 2024  |  2 minutes  |  393 words  |  Barrett Giampaolo

The ObserverFictionReviewA man goes to post a letter and ends up walking 600 miles. It's a pleasure to find out why in this emotionally-charged debut novelThis Booker long-listed debut novel begins with the arrival of an unexpected letter and an impulsive act. When Harold Fry, a timid man in his later years, discovers that a former friend and colleague is seriously ill, he sets out with the intention of posting her a letter but instead embarks on 600-mile walk from Devon to Berwick-upon-Tweed. [Read More]

My father is next to me, hands tremorous, eyes paranoid-wide | Life and style

 Posted on April 30, 2024  |  11 minutes  |  2233 words  |  Merlyn Hunt

Life and styleMy father is next to me, hands tremorous, eyes paranoid-wideJonathan Taylor on growing up in the shadow of Parkinson's diseaseThere is a moment, some time in distant 1981, when, standing near the desk of a Saturday morning group called "The Explorers" for talented, chess-playing children such as my elder brother and their tag-along siblings such as myself, there is a moment when my dad, at this point still working, still raven-haired, still capable of smiling, forgot my baby sister's name, like a paper shred gusted away, and with a laugh, and somewhere deep inside a vertiginous panic, had to grab my sleeve and ask me what it was. [Read More]

Notorious BIG to return ... as a cartoon ghost | Hip-hop

 Posted on April 30, 2024  |  2 minutes  |  410 words  |  Delta Gatti

Hip-hop This article is more than 10 years oldNotorious BIG to return ... as a cartoon ghostThis article is more than 10 years oldBiggie's children have announced plans for an animated series about their late father and his Brooklyn recording studioNotorious BIG's children are bringing him back as a cartoon ghost. CJ and T'yanna Wallace have announced plans for an animated series about their departed father and his Brooklyn recording studio. [Read More]

Real Madrid beat Atltico 5-3 in Saudi Arabia to reach Spanish Super Cup final | La Liga

 Posted on April 30, 2024  |  6 minutes  |  1275 words  |  Delta Gatti

La LigaReal Madrid beat Atlético 5-3 in Saudi Arabia to reach Spanish Super Cup finalRüdiger scores at both ends before crucial Savic own goalKroos booed relentlessly for past comments about countryEpisodes II and III will have to be very, very special if the Madrid Trilogy is going to end as well as it started. Not content with facing each other three times in three competitions and three weeks, Atlético and Real decided to play half an hour more just for the fun of it, scoring three goals each to take a sixth successive derby knockout tie into extra time. [Read More]

Secret life of nuns: a look behind convent walls a photo essay | Religion

 Posted on April 30, 2024  |  7 minutes  |  1293 words  |  Brenda Moya

A nun on a bike ride in Łowicz. Photograph: Valeria LuongoPhotographer Valeria Luongo’s long-term project explores the daily life of nuns at the Holy Hearts of Jesus and Mary convent in Rome. It was born out of a fascination with the women who choose to eschew conventional modes of living. What exactly does a nun’s life entail, and what happens in their tight-knit community? by Valeria Luongo A nun during a quiet moment of prayer [Read More]

Unforgotten series four, episode four recap is Ram's luck running out?

 Posted on April 30, 2024  |  5 minutes  |  973 words  |  Delta Gatti

Unforgotten: episode recapsTelevisionThe latest chapter of the cold case thriller sees evidence pile up as exemplary witnesses spell trouble for the Ford Granada Four The investigationHe was silent for 30 years, but now you can’t shut him up. Clive Walsh may be a crappy brother, but he’s a great witness. Thanks to him, we know all five plods exited the Ford Granada that night, heading in the same direction. Matthew’s racially aggravated assault on Ram three weeks earlier seems likely to have been the inciting incident. [Read More]

Upside down ice cream cone: just a trend for lazy eaters or conveniently crunchy?

 Posted on April 30, 2024  |  4 minutes  |  772 words  |  Barrett Giampaolo

Food snobFoodWhy get an ice cream cone dumped onto a secondary vessel? It may be cleaner and award you with more ice cream, but it’s also ridiculous and anti-American Earlier this week I got a note from a friend alerting me to a disturbing new development in the ice cream business. This summer, she said, she’d been seeing people eating scoops of ice cream off of plates or out of bowls, with a cone sticking up off the top. [Read More]

Go pick up a Bible: Speaker Mike Johnson defends anti-LGBTQ+ views | Mike Johnson

 Posted on April 29, 2024  |  4 minutes  |  798 words  |  Brenda Moya

Mike Johnson This article is more than 2 months old‘Go pick up a Bible’: Speaker Mike Johnson defends anti-LGBTQ+ viewsThis article is more than 2 months oldRepublican House speaker, who has advanced extreme views as attorney and legislator, says ‘I am a Bible-believing Christian’ Questioned about comments and actions deemed by many to be homophobic, the new Republican US House speaker, Mike Johnson of Louisiana, told Fox News his worldview was: “Go pick up a Bible. [Read More]

Is it a bird? Is it a dinosaur? No, it's a fake | Arizona

 Posted on April 29, 2024  |  9 minutes  |  1756 words  |  Christie Applegate

ArizonaIs it a bird? Is it a dinosaur? No, it's a fakeIt was a coup for National Geographic - the first pictures of a creature whose existence would turn the theory of bird evolution on its head. Then it was exposed as a hoax. Julian Borger on the missing link that never wasArchaeoraptor first turned up in a hotel room in Tucson, Arizona. Stephen Czerkas, a dinosaur enthusiast who ran a small private museum, was wandering around a fossil fair when he heard that a Chinese dealer had something extraordinary. [Read More]

Israeli government accused of abandoning soldiers with PTSD | Israel

 Posted on April 29, 2024  |  5 minutes  |  984 words  |  Merlyn Hunt

Israel This article is more than 4 years oldIsraeli government accused of abandoning soldiers with PTSDThis article is more than 4 years oldUp to one in 12 soldiers report symptoms, yet struggle for official recognition and access to help Israeli soldiers have accused the government of abandoning them with little support for post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) caused by their military service, according to local mental health groups and several former conscripts. [Read More]