India: four men arrested after women stripped naked and paraded in Manipur | India
Posted on April 10, 2024
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| Barrett Giampaolo
India This article is more than 5 months oldIndia: four men arrested after women stripped naked and paraded in ManipurThis article is more than 5 months oldPolice say further arrests expected as attack captured in viral video prompts nationwide outrage
Four men have been arrested in connection with the case of two women who were stripped naked, publicly paraded and allegedly gang raped in the Indian state of Manipur, in an attack that caused outrage after it was captured in a viral video.
[Read More]St Marks Place: is this America's coolest street?
Posted on April 10, 2024
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| Brenda Moya
Bite of the appleNew YorkIt is easy to feel nostalgic for the array of creative and political figures who made their mark on the East Village street, but its golden age is always ‘now’
Many thoroughfares could credibly lay claim to the title “America’s hippest street”: Alberta Street in Portland, South Congress Avenue in Austin, Valencia Street in San Francisco would all have their backers.
As for New York, the bright lights of Fifth Avenue and 42nd Street were immortalised in the names of nightclubs 3,000 miles away in the Manchester of my youth.
[Read More]The gentrification font: how a sleek typeface became a neighborhood omen | Gentrification
Posted on April 10, 2024
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| Brenda Moya
Illustration: Olivia Heller/The GuardianThe clean, modern typeface has adorned the New Yorker, Shake Shack and even HBO’s Girls – now it might bedeck your last home
Tell us: have you struggled with the US housing crisis? by Frida GarzaMaybe you recognize it from the Shake Shack nameplate, text in the New Yorker magazine, or maybe you’ve seen it flash across the screen during the title sequence for the cult HBO show Girls.
[Read More]12 of the best no-bra bras and bralettes all underwire-free | Lingerie
Posted on April 9, 2024
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| Brenda Moya
bras Composite: PROur pick of comfortable lingerie that still performs well in a supporting role
Ouch! Is it all over for the underwired bra?
by Melanie WilkinsonPurple lace bra-topSoft-cup made from stretch lace, £50 by Hanky Panky from matchesfashion.com
Pale pink bra-topRecycled nylon-mix mesh in triangle shape £19, cosstores.com
Floral bra-topSilk-mix floral with lace detail, £22.50, marksandspencer.com
Floral bamboo braletteMade from bamboo and organic cotton jersey, £16.95,wearethought.com
Green crop topSeam-free in six colours (pictured: gasoline green), £24.
[Read More]Dressed to kill: how Diana Rigg became a 60s style icon
Posted on April 9, 2024
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| Barrett Giampaolo
FashionIn her slinky leather catsuits and super-short miniskirts, The Avengers’ Emma Peel brought a fetishistic element to fashion
For many growing up in the 60s, Diana Rigg’s Emma Peel was their first style icon. Over two seasons on The Avengers opposite Patrick Macnee’s Steed, Peel kung fu kicked down television’s puritanical costume regulations to create a character who came to define the look of the swinging 60s. As important as Mary Quant or Twiggy, Rigg’s Peel was perhaps more influential as, through the medium of TV, she was seen by a bigger audience.
[Read More]From Roth to Le Guin: top 10 novels about the first world war | Books
Posted on April 9, 2024
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| Merlyn Hunt
Top 10sBooksFrom Roth to Le Guin: top 10 novels about the first world warAuthors such as Virginia Woolf and Pat Barker show how the conflict’s devastating impact carried on long after the 1918 armistice
I had not intended to write a first world war novel. But the physician protagonist of my initial project, set in interwar Vienna, needed a backstory. So I sought in it the war and, like countless others before me, found myself drawn into the conflict.
[Read More]Is Nicolas Cage finally getting his turn in the Superman suit?
Posted on April 9, 2024
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| Merlyn Hunt
Week in geekFilmHe lost out when 1989’s Tim Burton-helmed Superman Lives was canned, but The Flash, Warner DC’s first venture into the multiverse, could see the actor finally do his thing in the red cape
According to certain scientific theories there are endless alternative universes out there. In one, everything is exactly the same as in this one, but your favourite rock star is David Bowie instead of Mick Jagger. In another, Liz Truss and Donald Trump are still the leaders of the free world.
[Read More]The magic number: how many people have you slept with?
Posted on April 9, 2024
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| Barrett Giampaolo
SexFrom a 40-year-old virgin to a role-play devotee, real people reveal everything they’ve learned between the sheets
Warning: adult content
What’s your number? Tell us about your experiences anonymously
‘You didn’t go all the way unless you were stupid, because it would ruin your life’Jane, 81, three partners
My grandmother was a Victorian and wouldn’t mention the lavatory. For her, sex would have been something a woman endured rather than enjoyed.
[Read More]Wave of Israeli spring protests leaves Palestinian citizens out in the cold
Posted on April 9, 2024
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| Christie Applegate
The ObserverIsraelArab minority has been alienated by united opposition against judicial reforms by Benjamin Netanyahu’s coalition
As the light faded and tens of thousands of protesters made their way back from the Knesset to Jerusalem’s train station last week, the mood was tired but determined. Israel’s newly re-elected prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, is no stranger to demonstrations calling for him to resign. But the now two-month-old movement against his far-right coalition’s plans to overhaul the judicial system is not like those he has faced before – or like any in the country’s history.
[Read More]Bilson Eleven, Glasgow: The arse-clenching pretension of it all restaurant review
Posted on April 8, 2024
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| Delta Gatti
Marina O'Loughlin on restaurantsRestaurantsReviewThe pole-up-jacksie staff robotically recite every component of every dish with the animation and charm of a Theresa May interview How dare I? How dare I be critical about a small, new indie restaurant, its name an elision of the chef/owner’s two sons (and the number of tables they, er, used to have)? Where it’s clearly the work of the bleeding inevitable passionate maverick who has dedicated his life, soul, savings?
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