12 moments that made the modern music festival
Posted on April 20, 2024
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The ObserverMusic festivalsToday’s thriving festival culture has its roots in the outdoor folk and jazz gatherings of the early 1960s. Here are 12 key moments in the evolution of an ongoing cultural phenomenon
The trick to playing festivals? ‘You’ve got to blow them away.’ Today’s stars talk about their festival experiences Competition: win tickets to the festival of your choice this summer The Guardian’s product and service reviews are independent and are in no way influenced by any advertiser or commercial initiative.
[Read More]Pete Wentz: We felt underappreciated by some of the fans | Fall Out Boy
Posted on April 20, 2024
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30 minutes with …Fall Out BoyInterviewPete Wentz: ‘We felt underappreciated by some of the fans’Mark BeaumontThe notorious bassist of reformed US punk poppers Fall Out Boy on split-ups, dick pic humiliation, and childhood nightmaresHi Pete! The reformed Fall Out Boy have just announced two shows at Wembley Arena in October – is this the age-old trick of pretending to split up for three years until people start caring again?
[Read More]Top 10 family-friendly city apartments around Europe
Posted on April 20, 2024
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Family holidaysYes, a city break with the kids can be enjoyable, if you stay in child-friendly pads like these – from a Barcelona apartment with toys galore to Budapest with babysitters
The Guardian’s product and service reviews are independent and are in no way influenced by any advertiser or commercial initiative. We will earn a commission from the retailer if you buy something through an affiliate link. Learn more. BarcelonaWith a comic-strip-print sofa, cartoon doodles on the walls, toy boxes, and an indoor hammock, this small but sleek apartment has been designed with kids in mind.
[Read More]What's wrong with sitting down in the shower?
Posted on April 20, 2024
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| Christie Applegate
Secret diary of Tom Meltzer aged 22Life and styleIt seemed quite normal to me – until my flatmates freaked outI am sitting with my flatmates, eating dinner, and I feel like an alien being interrogated by the FBI. I have made the mistake of telling them that, from time to time, on certain mornings, when the mood takes me, I shower sitting down. This had not, until now, struck me as odd.
[Read More]Why did this young man have such a hold on me? How dating someone half my age rebooted my sex
Posted on April 20, 2024
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Emma Forrest: ‘I had been celibate by choice for four years.’ Photograph: Thomas DuffieldEmma Forrest: ‘I had been celibate by choice for four years.’ Photograph: Thomas DuffieldDatingAfter splitting from my husband and four years of celibacy, getting out there was daunting. Was I ready to be the ‘older woman’?
In the decade I lived in California, before I moved back to Britain in 2018, men would sometimes approach me in cafes or the gym, once at the Norton Simon museum, where Eve Babitz had played nude chess with Marcel Duchamp.
[Read More]I cant imagine getting married with those teeth: how Britain fell for adult braces
Posted on April 19, 2024
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| Christie Applegate
Health & wellbeingLockdowns and video calls have boosted demand for ‘invisible’ teeth aligners. But what do you get for your £1,500 to £4,000? And are some health experts right to be concerned?
When Dabi Adesoye was growing up in Ibadan, a city of 6 million people in Nigeria, everyone called her “Eji”. In Yoruba, Adesoye’s first language, this translates roughly as “gap teeth”. It might have been a compliment – in Nigeria, a space between the top front incisors is seen as a mark of beauty, Adesoye says – but she hated hers.
[Read More]Im completely devoted to one person: David Hyde Pierce on love, death and the Frasier reboo
Posted on April 19, 2024
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TelevisionNearly 30 years since he wowed the world as Niles in Frasier, David Hyde Pierce has been lured back to TV as chef Julia Child’s adoring husband. He talks about food, sex – and whether he’ll soon be reuniting with Kelsey Grammer
Eighteen years after Frasier ended – and nearly 30 since it began – it’s finally happened. David Hyde Pierce has found a major role rich enough to tempt him back to TV.
[Read More]In pictures: The short and difficult life of B of the Bang | Art and design
Posted on April 19, 2024
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The short and difficult life of B of the Bang Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email Then Britain's tallest sculpture, Thomas Heatherwick's monument to the 2002 Commonwealth games, B of the Bang, was always designed to make headlines. Today's announcement that it will be dismantled is a sad end to a project that consistently found itself on front pages for all the wrong reasons.
[Read More]Michelle Brasier: Average Bear review standup, songs and stories of lost innocence
Posted on April 19, 2024
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ComedyReviewSoho theatre, London
Australian comic delivers a compelling but messy exploration of grief – but where’s the bear?
The “dead dad” show has become a standup genre unto itself in recent years – but that isn’t the half of it in Aussie act Michelle Brasier’s Average Bear. It is about a life that lacked hardship, then overflowed with it, as the gilded daughter of Wagga in New South Wales migrated to theatre school in Melbourne, and got more drama than she bargained for.
[Read More]Post Mortem review Hungarian chiller lurches from eerie to absurd
Posted on April 19, 2024
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| Barrett Giampaolo
MoviesReviewMade to resemble silent-era shockers, this black-and-white ghost story is no classic but offers a smart study of historical trauma
Set in 1919 during the Spanish flu pandemic, this period Hungarian horror directed by Péter Bergendy is imbued with shades of black and grey, a monochromatic colour scheme designed to feel reminiscent of classic silent horror films.
Returning from the first world war where he has endured a near-death experience, Tomás (Viktor Klem) swaps his guns for a camera as he takes a job as a post-mortem photographer, a carnivalesque gig where he poses and takes pictures of the dead for their loved ones.
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