Arctic Monkeys Alex Turner: Im comfortable with the idea that things dont have to be a p

 Posted on April 25, 2024  |  12 minutes  |  2365 words  |  Delta Gatti

Arctic MonkeysInterviewArctic Monkeys’ Alex Turner: ‘I’m comfortable with the idea that things don’t have to be a pop song’Jazz MonroeThe most influential frontman of his generation is also the least at ease with it. He discusses abandoning rock norms, singing from the gut and treading the fine line between cryptic and gooey on new album The Car Not for the first time, Alex Turner has lost his train of thought. In a booth of a downtown Manhattan diner, the Arctic Monkeys frontman is hunched forward, grasping for words to describe their new album – a black-tie orgy of cinematic soul, lurid funk and perfumed 60s strings. [Read More]

Fizzy drinks linked to gout | Health

 Posted on April 25, 2024  |  2 minutes  |  389 words  |  Christie Applegate

HealthFizzy drinks linked to goutMen who consume large amounts of fizzy or sugary drinks are at higher risk of contracting gout than those who abstain, a new study has concluded. Researchers from Harvard and the University of Vancouver found that those who consumed five or six sweet beverages a week were nearly 30% more likely to suffer attacks of the illness than those who drank less than one serving monthly. The risk rose to 85% for those drinking two or more a day. [Read More]

I became fair game: Charlotte Church on Chris Moyles offering to take her virginity at 16 | Te

 Posted on April 25, 2024  |  2 minutes  |  391 words  |  Delta Gatti

Television This article is more than 10 months old‘I became fair game’: Charlotte Church on Chris Moyles offering to take her virginity at 16This article is more than 10 months oldThe presenter and singer discusses ‘dark’ proposition in new Kathy Burke TV show Charlotte Church has discussed how Chris Moyles offered to take her virginity during his Radio 1 show. In a new Channel 4 series, Kathy Burke: Growing Up, the singer talks about how, on her 16th birthday in 2002, the DJ decided to mark the occasion by announcing that he wanted to “lead her through the forest of sexuality now she had reached 16”. [Read More]

Jimmy Knapp | | The Guardian

 Posted on April 25, 2024  |  7 minutes  |  1294 words  |  Delta Gatti

ObituaryJimmy KnappShrewd and determined leader of Britain's biggest rail unionThe redoubtable Jimmy Knapp, who has died aged 60 of cancer, was a symbolic example of the deep, cultural, socio-political identity between the trade unions and the Labour party. He was, for nearly 20 years, general secretary of Britain's largest railway workers' union, known until 1990 as the National Union of Railwaymen (NUR) and since re-christened as the National Union of Rail, Maritime and Transport Workers (RMT). [Read More]

Paul Cattermole obituary | Pop and rock

 Posted on April 25, 2024  |  5 minutes  |  1030 words  |  Brenda Moya

Pop and rockObituaryPaul Cattermole obituaryMember of the chart-topping pop band S Club 7 who enjoyed great success in the early 2000sPaul Cattermole, who has died aged 46, was part of the chart-topping pop band S Club 7 from its formation in 1998 until he quit in 2002, making his last appearance with them at the Queen’s Golden Jubilee concert that June. His departure from the septet prompted them to be renamed S Club. [Read More]

Ten ways in which Shakespeare changed the world

 Posted on April 25, 2024  |  11 minutes  |  2134 words  |  Merlyn Hunt

Laurence Olivier as Hamlet in his 1948 film. Photograph: Ronald GrantLaurence Olivier as Hamlet in his 1948 film. Photograph: Ronald GrantThe ObserverWilliam ShakespeareThis week marks 400 years since the death of our national poet. And yet his characters, the worlds he created, the thoughts he expressed – some raw, fashioned in fire, some exquisite and turned in silk – are for all people and all timeBack in 2012, the British Library displayed a rare book that attracted as much media attention as a Gutenberg Bible. [Read More]

A cooler way to deal with trauma | Michael Mosley

 Posted on April 24, 2024  |  5 minutes  |  935 words  |  Barrett Giampaolo

Medical research This article is more than 12 years oldA cooler way to deal with traumaThis article is more than 12 years oldMichael MosleyIt's still controversial, but evidence is mounting that keeping trauma patients cold can save lives, says Michael MosleyIt was 3am on a bitterly cold January morning and we were staying in a cottage in Dorset when there was a loud banging on the front door. We stumbled downstairs and there was one of the neighbours holding our 11-year-old son, Alex, with his head covered in blood. [Read More]

Cirque du Soleil performer dies after fall during Las Vegas show | Cirque du Soleil

 Posted on April 24, 2024  |  1 minutes  |  159 words  |  Barrett Giampaolo

Cirque du Soleil This article is more than 10 years oldCirque du Soleil performer dies after fall during Las Vegas showThis article is more than 10 years oldParis-born woman reportedly involved in accident at MGM GrandA Paris-born performer in Cirque du Soleil's show Kà has died after a fall during a show in Las Vegas. Sarah Guyard-Guillot was pronounced dead late on Saturday night at a hospital after falling about 15 metres (50ft) from the show's stage. [Read More]

I urged my wife to be sexually dominant, but I'm worried it's gone too far

 Posted on April 24, 2024  |  2 minutes  |  402 words  |  Christie Applegate

Sexual healingRelationshipsI haven’t managed to find a space where I, too, can have my sexual needs met. I’m not sure that being submissive is what I really want I am having a little trouble with my marriage, sexually. While I am quite kinky and highly sexual, my wife is not as comfortable with her sexuality, or communicating about it. I accept that, and have been encouraging her to open up, feel pleasure and tell me what she wants in the bedroom more. [Read More]

Katherine Ryan: I thought plastic surgery was aspirational | Katherine Ryan

 Posted on April 24, 2024  |  15 minutes  |  3032 words  |  Barrett Giampaolo

The ObserverKatherine RyanInterviewKatherine Ryan: ‘I thought plastic surgery was aspirational’Eva WisemanThe comedian will have you in stitches, but she can also leave you speechless. Katherine Ryan talks to Eva Wiseman about breast implants and potty training – and the jokes even she wouldn’t risk today Katherine Ryan has named her autobiography The Audacity, a word (she explains) most commonly used to indicate disapproval. “Like, ‘HOW DARE she carry herself with that wicked abundance of self-belief? [Read More]