MountaineeringObituaryJim Bridwell obituaryMaverick American climber dedicated to the big walls of Yosemite National Park in CaliforniaEarly in January 1979, the US climber Jim Bridwell, who has died aged 73, was high on the Patagonian mountain of Cerro Torre, a vertical blade of granite 10,000ft high. After a miserable bivouac exposed to bitter wind and snowfall, Bridwell and his climbing partner Steve Brewer were negotiating a difficult section on their descent from the summit. Read More...
The ObserverMedia This article is more than 3 months oldOnce shamed, forever a slut: give up girls, you’re doomed to stay in the internet spotlightThis article is more than 3 months oldBarbara EllenMonica Lewinsky, Rebecca Loos and others have no hope of fading into obscurity, even decades laterIs slut-shaming having a retro-moment? Or is it rather that, for the slut-shamed, it never really goes away? Monica Lewinsky, the self-declared “patient zero of losing my reputation online”, has been in conversation with the Washington Post columnist, Taylor Lorenz, author of a new book about the internet, Extremely Online. Read More...
(Clockwise from left) pastéis de nata; a Bordallo Pinheiro cabbage bowl; Portuguese tinned sardines. Composite: Getty/Alamy/PRView image in fullscreen(Clockwise from left) pastéis de nata; a Bordallo Pinheiro cabbage bowl; Portuguese tinned sardines. Composite: Getty/Alamy/PRLife and styleColourful and gaudy, traditional Portuguese designs, most famously the cabbage plate, were long dismissed as old fashioned. But this special brand of maximalism is undergoing a revival and has paved the way for a wider appreciation of all things from Portugal Read More...