Female 'cougars' are on the prowl. Or are they just a male fantasy? | Life and style

 Posted on April 8, 2024  |  8 minutes  |  1648 words  |  Delta Gatti

The ObserverLife and style This article is more than 14 years oldFemale 'cougars' are on the prowl. Or are they just a male fantasy?This article is more than 14 years oldThey're over 40 and on the hunt for a younger man. Now they're starring in a series of popular TV shows – causing fury among commentators. By Paul Harris and Anushka AsthanaTo some, they are objects of empowering modern feminism. To others they are an example of misogynistic male fantasy. [Read More]

Hacker who stole nude photos of celebrities gets 18 months in prison | Hacking

 Posted on April 8, 2024  |  3 minutes  |  443 words  |  Barrett Giampaolo

Hacking This article is more than 7 years oldHacker who stole nude photos of celebrities gets 18 months in prisonThis article is more than 7 years oldRyan Collins ran a two-year phishing scam to gain the passwords of more than 100 people, including Jennifer Lawrence, Rihanna and Avril Lavigne The hacker who stole nude photos of female celebrities in 2014 has been sentenced to 18 months in federal prison, officials announced on Thursday. [Read More]

Look what we did

 Posted on April 8, 2024  |  12 minutes  |  2495 words  |  Delta Gatti

Jones on artJake and Dinos ChapmanWeaned on a diet of pickled animals and unmade beds, the British public has become remarkably difficult to shock. Could that be why Jake and Dinos Chapman, the enfants terribles of Britart, bought a mint collection of Goya's most celebrated prints - and set about systematically defacing them? Jonathan Jones on the breaking of art's ultimate tabooPicture gallery Poor Goya. In his lifetime he had to put up with deafness, the Spanish Inquisition and the Duke of Wellington. [Read More]

Talking Heads musicians survive serious collision with drunk driver | Music

 Posted on April 8, 2024  |  2 minutes  |  322 words  |  Brenda Moya

Music This article is more than 1 year oldTalking Heads musicians survive serious collision with drunk driverThis article is more than 1 year oldTina Weymouth in ‘a lot of pain’ after she fractures sternum and three ribs in car crash, says husband Chris Frantz Chris Frantz and Tina Weymouth, the husband and wife musicians who were core members of Talking Heads and Tom Tom Club, have survived a serious car crash after a collision with a drunk driver. [Read More]

Unlikely Heroes review: the advisers who helped FDR shape America

 Posted on April 8, 2024  |  6 minutes  |  1066 words  |  Barrett Giampaolo

BooksReviewFrances Perkins, Harry Hopkins, Harold Ickes and Henry Wallace are given their due in a fascinating group biography No modern American political era has been the subject of more books than the 12 years in which Franklin Delano Roosevelt was president. But Derek Leebaert’s personality-driven account of the life and times of our greatest president quickly convinces us there is a place for one more compelling volume. Myth America review: superb group history of the lies that built a nationRead moreLeebaert’s formal focus is on the four people many agree were the most important deputies to FDR: [Read More]

Gayle Newland found guilty at retrial of tricking female friend into sex | UK news

 Posted on April 7, 2024  |  7 minutes  |  1311 words  |  Merlyn Hunt

UK news This article is more than 6 years oldGayle Newland found guilty at retrial of tricking female friend into sexThis article is more than 6 years oldNewland, 27, convicted of three counts of sexual assault by penetration after asking woman to wear blindfold A woman has been found guilty for the second time of tricking a female friend into having sex by pretending to be a man. Gayle Newland, 27, was initially convicted of three counts of sexual assault at Chester crown court in September 2015, and was sentenced to eight years in prison. [Read More]

Glory by NoViolet Bulawayo review a Zimbabwean Animal Farm

 Posted on April 7, 2024  |  5 minutes  |  961 words  |  Christie Applegate

Book of the dayFictionReviewSet in the aftermath of Mugabe’s fall, Bulawayo’s long-awaited second novel is a spellbinding allegory Nine years ago, NoViolet Bulawayo published her debut novel We Need New Names. This coming-of-age tale, which grew from her Caine prize-winning short story Hitting Budapest, features 10-year-old Darling and friends struggling to survive in a Zimbabwean shantytown. They do so with extraordinary resilience and humour; a thread that runs powerfully through her second novel, Glory. [Read More]

James Grout obituary | Television

 Posted on April 7, 2024  |  5 minutes  |  923 words  |  Barrett Giampaolo

TelevisionObituaryJames Grout obituaryStage and screen actor best known for his role as Chief Superintendent Strange in Inspector MorseJames Grout, who has died aged 84, was a supporting actor of authority and distinction best known on television for playing Inspector Morse's boss, Chief Superintendent Strange, as well as a gallery of prominent characters in other much-loved series. He was the flustered party whip in Yes Minister; a blunt-speaking judge, Ollie Oliphant, in John Mortimer's Rumpole of the Bailey; and an affluent, slightly dodgy businessman, Mr McAllister, in Alan Plater's The Beiderbecke Affair. [Read More]

Jerry Falwell Jr 'enjoyed watching' his wife have sex, alleged lover says | US news

 Posted on April 7, 2024  |  4 minutes  |  665 words  |  Merlyn Hunt

US news This article is more than 3 years oldJerry Falwell Jr 'enjoyed watching' his wife have sex, alleged lover saysThis article is more than 3 years oldGiancarlo Granda says Liberty University head, who quit over sex scandal, knew of his relationship with Becki Falwell ‘from day one’ Giancarlo Granda, the man at the center of a sex scandal involving Jerry Falwell Jr, detailed on Friday how the evangelical leader and outspoken ally of Donald Trump “enjoyed watching” his wife and Granda having sex. [Read More]

Man who made 1.2m from fake vinyl records caught out by Clash fan | Vinyl

 Posted on April 7, 2024  |  4 minutes  |  733 words  |  Brenda Moya

Vinyl This article is more than 9 months oldMan who made £1.2m from fake vinyl records caught out by Clash fanThis article is more than 9 months oldRichard Hutter charged up to £35 for counterfeit albums by bands like the Beatles and Nirvana over six-year period A businessman who made more than £1m selling fake vinyl records was caught after a fan of punk band the Clash complained that the sound quality of an LP he had bought was not as sharp as it should have been. [Read More]