How Jack Your Body began house music's squelching electronic revolution | Dance music

 Posted on May 17, 2024  |  7 minutes  |  1455 words  |  Brenda Moya

Dance musicInterviewHow Jack Your Body began house music's squelching electronic revolutionJude RogersSteve ‘Silk’ Hurley only made his 1986 track to amuse his friends – then it burst out of Chicago’s clubs and became a No 1 hit January 1987’s pop charts began cosily enough. A 1957 rock’n’roll staple was No 1 (Jackie Wilson’s Reet Petite). Elkie Brooks and the Housemartins sat in the top 10. Then, like a future shock, came Jack Your Body: a track built on a scruffy, electronic beat, a squelching, pulsing bassline, and the voice of a man breathing heavily, squealing, and then stuttering its title like a mantra. [Read More]

Im still ostracized: what happens to true crime survivors?

 Posted on May 17, 2024  |  9 minutes  |  1890 words  |  Delta Gatti

PodcastsTwo survivors of horrifying, well-publicized crime stories have banded together to create a podcast tackling difficult tales of survival against the odds When Collier Landry was 12 years old, he became a media sensation as the star witness in a small-town murder trial like no other. With uncommon poise and precision for someone so young, he told a jury in Ohio how, months earlier, he’d woken up in the middle of the night and overheard his father killing his mother in the next room. [Read More]

Louisiana man wrongly convicted of rape released after 29 years in prison | New Orleans

 Posted on May 17, 2024  |  5 minutes  |  876 words  |  Merlyn Hunt

New Orleans This article is more than 8 months oldLouisiana man wrongly convicted of rape released after 29 years in prisonThis article is more than 8 months oldPatrick Brown, 49, was sentenced to life without parole after being accused of raping his young stepdaughter in December 1994 A Louisiana man who served 29 years for a crime he did not commit has been released from prison after it was revealed in court that the victim had told the prosecutors in New Orleans for over two decades that the man was innocent, but she was repeatedly ignored. [Read More]

Opera-loving woman becomes last victim of 'Yellow Mama' | World news

 Posted on May 17, 2024  |  3 minutes  |  588 words  |  Merlyn Hunt

World newsOpera-loving woman becomes last victim of 'Yellow Mama'Alabama abolishes electric chair as US starts to reconsider its zeal for death penaltyTo the usual wave of public indifference, Lynda Block, who killed a policeman nine years ago, was herself killed in an Alabama jail yesterday, the 25th person to be executed in the US this year. However, she is likely to earn a special footnote in history as the last person ever to suffer that most American of deaths: the electric chair. [Read More]

Etsy lays off 225 workers after essentially flat sales, says CEO | Business

 Posted on May 16, 2024  |  2 minutes  |  334 words  |  Christie Applegate

Business This article is more than 1 month oldEtsy lays off 225 workers after ‘essentially flat’ sales, says CEOThis article is more than 1 month oldStaff notified via livestream Wednesday by Josh Silverman, who acknowledged ‘unfortunate’ timing during holiday season Etsy is laying off 225 employees in a bid to cut costs as it grapples with “very challenging” economic headwinds. The online retail company will reduce its headcount by about 11% after deciding that a “leaner, more agile” workforce would help shore up growth. [Read More]

Eugene Levy: The eyebrows didnt hinder or help my career, I dont think | Televisio

 Posted on May 16, 2024  |  7 minutes  |  1317 words  |  Brenda Moya

Observer New Review Q&ATelevisionInterviewEugene Levy: ‘The​ eyebrows d​idn’t hinder or help my career, I don’t think’Michael HoganThe Schitt’s Creek star on his unlikely new travelogue, the thrill of working with family and his pal Jennifer Coolidge stealing the show The much-loved Canadian comic actor Eugene Levy is best known for co-creating and co-starring in Schitt’s Creek with his son Dan. The sitcom, which also starred his daughter Sarah, became a cult hit during the pandemic and won multiple awards for its sixth and final season, including a best actor Emmy for Eugene. [Read More]

Frida Kahlos Self-Portrait on the Border: pretty in pink and championing Mexico | Frida Kahlo

 Posted on May 16, 2024  |  2 minutes  |  242 words  |  Barrett Giampaolo

Anatomy of an artworkFrida KahloFrida Kahlo’s Self-Portrait on the Border: pretty in pink and championing MexicoKahlo’s shock at an industrialised and over-populated America compared with the deep-rooted culture of her homeland Pink eye …Frida Kahlo plays with the pretty in pink stereotype in one of her more directly political paintings (its full title is Self-Portrait on the Border Between Mexico and the United States of America). Far from the demure figure of soirees that her outfit suggests, she stands, fag in hand, tense, with her lips pursed. [Read More]

Im 70 and so full of regret about my husband and career

 Posted on May 16, 2024  |  5 minutes  |  948 words  |  Christie Applegate

Ask PhilippaMarriageI suspect you have a pattern of believing that whatever choice you make, it’s the wrong one. You can work through this with a therapist The dilemma I am a 70-year-old woman and am consumed by regret and disappointment. Outwardly, I am happy, calm and outgoing, with friends and interests, but this facade hides my inner feelings, which I share with no one. I married too young and chose the wrong man. [Read More]

Israel stay in hunt for Euro 2024 spot after late leveller thwarts Switzerland | Euro 2024

 Posted on May 16, 2024  |  2 minutes  |  385 words  |  Christie Applegate

Euro 2024Israel stay in hunt for Euro 2024 spot after late leveller thwarts Switzerland Israel scored an 88th-minute equaliser to grab a 1-1 draw with Switzerland in their European Championship qualifier in neutral Hungary on Wednesday to keep alive their hopes of reaching next year’s finals in Germany. The Swiss were within two minutes of booking their finals place but Shon Weissman’s late goal means they must now beat Kosovo at the weekend to ensure they qualify. [Read More]

Trump wins in Iowa as Republican contest kicks off 2024 presidential race video | US news

 Posted on May 16, 2024  |  1 minutes  |  155 words  |  Delta Gatti

US elections 2024 Trump wins in Iowa as Republican contest kicks off 2024 presidential race – video Donald Trump won the US’s first election contest of 2024, easily fending off a field of Republicans who failed to gain traction against the former US president. The result for Trump was called quickly, while the battle for second place took much longer, with Ron DeSantis edging out Nikki Haley in an upset. [Read More]