Best culture of the 21st centuryPop and rockQuietly beautiful and earthily funny, Back to Black’s ebullient music transformed pop – and will be revered for decades to come
The 100 best albums of the 21st century Back to Black came out of nowhere – in a sense. Of course, Amy Winehouse had already released her debut album, 2003’s Frank, but, her voice aside, it sounded more or less like the work of a different artist. Read More...
ArizonaOwner finds unruly visitor in place of chihuahua-dachshund, Squeakers, who narrowly survived encounter with wildcat
At first, Nikola Zovko thought the creature curled up in his dog Squeakers’s deluxe, heated dog bed was just one of his cats. “I said, ‘Fuzzerhead, what’re you doing in Squeakers’s bed?’” he said. And that’s when it registered. “Oh that’s not Fuzzerhead. That’s a real life bobcat.”
In the week since, Zovko and his family lost and found their beloved pup Squeakers, a 10-year-old chihuahua-dachshund mix. Read More...
MoviesReviewPeter Wollen’s 1987 two-hander has Swinton and Bill Paterson holed up in a hotel room watching football in 1970s Jordan
In 1987, the late English critic, theorist and film-maker Peter Wollen directed his only solo feature film: an insouciantly baffling two-hander called Friendship’s Death, now rereleased. It was a cinema of ideas, rare then, rarer now, high-mindedly produced by the British Film Institute and Channel 4. Bill Paterson plays Sullivan: a hardbitten, boozy journalist holed up in a shabby hotel in Amman in Jordan in 1970, during the civil war and the “Black September” era of PLO hijackings. Read More...