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The singer, 44, talks about her earliest memories, awkward teenage years, thrill-seeking days and her chance to make music with her childhood heroMy earliest memory is of a dream I had aged three: standing in the park near my New York daycare, I bit my lip, and it came straight off like Play-Doh. We...
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(Columbia)The first album in 12 years from Beth Ditto’s US dance-punk trio feels strongly personal and political. Musically, though, it pulls its punchesGossip – the trio made up of singer Beth Ditto, multi-instrumentalist Nathan Howdeshell and drummer Hannah Blilie – were never just a one-hit wonde...
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The role-playing game, largely powered by participants’ imaginations, continues to attract fans half a century after it was launchedEveryone remembers their first Dungeons & Dragons character. For Sam Gyseman, it was a dwarf called Sven Olafson. “For some reason I thought dwarves were all Scandi...
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F Scott Fitzgerald’s novel was a flop until a 1926 staging became a Broadway smashIt is the quintessential novel of the hedonistic jazz age, a roaring 20s story about the mysteriously wealthy Jay Gatsby and his love for the beautiful Daisy Buchanan. The Great Gatsby became an enduring classic, inspi...
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Stone Nest; Wigmore Hall; Royal Opera House, LondonPergolesi’s Stabat Mater is reimagined for the stage; the South African soprano scales the heights from Strauss to The Sound of Music; and Asmik Grigorian is a shattering ButterflyThe virgin of sorrows weeping at the cross, described in a few plain...
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Mark Roesler is a publicist with a difference – most of the clients he represents are no longer alive. And thanks to AI, holograms and social media, being dead famous is more lucrative than everThe celebrity agent Mark Roesler is telling me about a new client he’s just taken on – a big name with glo...
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The acting couple on second chances, family dynamics, and losing their daughterBorn in Albrighton, Shropshire, in 1962, Jason Watkins is a Bafta-award-winning actor best known for his comic and dramatic roles in TV& hits such as W1A, Line of Duty and& The Crown. He met fellow actor Clara Francis in...
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They were initially dismissed as the acme of upper-class preppiness, but the band’s new album Only God Was Above Us is its grittiest yet. Has their frontman finally exorcised past demons?On its surface, Only God Was& Above Us, the fifth album from Vampire Weekend, has a darkly fatalist point of view...
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Cameron Diaz has announced the birth of her first son, Cardinal Madden, at the age of 51.
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In this week’s Inside Spain review, we explain why Spain’s mediocre World Happiness Report ranking should be taken with a pinch of salt and the stark differences in which the Spanish and British press report about each other’s countries.
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Newly restored plant house at Wentworth Woodhouse, home to some of world’s oldest camellias, formally opens as a global teahouse“These plants would have been the Van Dycks of their day, there was that much kudos attached to them,” said the head gardener Scott Jamieson, in front of some of the oldest...
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Sarah McCammon of NPR brings personal experience and reportorial rigor to her portrayal of a growing Christian crisisSarah McCammon’s new book about “exvangelicals” like herself is a powerful memoir of her complicated journey away from Christian fundamentalism. Because she experienced it from the in...
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Are we living through the end times? Dorian Lynskey interrogates our insatiable appetite for doom - and asks why each generation is so drawn to the idea that they will be the lastIt is a sunny afternoon in Taormina, Sicily, and two wealthy couples on holiday are drinking Aperol spritz on a balcony o...
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Looking to spend Easter in Spain but dreading the crowds? Here are seven places across the country where you're far less likely to encounter many tourists.
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By postponing its budget for 2024, the Spanish government will not update an important income index that could have two big impacts on foreigners living in Spain.