12 Apr 201919.33 EDTSo that’s your lot on a very strange but very exciting first day at the 2019 Masters. For a while we had nine players bunched in the lead at -3, but Bryson DeChambeau, Brooks Koepka, Ian Poulter, Dustin Johnson and the evergreen Phil Mickelson pulled ahead. Tomorrow promises to be another entertaining, if possibly a little wet, day at Augusta. Please join us. Thanks for reading today. Nighty night! Read More...
Health & wellbeingWithout engaging with natural environments, our brains cease to work well. As the new field of environmental neuroscience proves, exposure to nature isn’t a luxury – it’s a necessity
It’s a grey November day; rain gently pocks the surface of the tidal pools. There is not much to see in this East Sussex nature reserve – a few gulls, a little grebe, a solitary wader on the shore – but already my breathing has slowed to the rhythm of the water lapping the shingle, my shoulders have dropped and I feel imbued with a sense of calm. Read More...
10 of the bestTom WaitsTom Waits: 10 of the bestFrom the drunken balladeer to the Brechtian surrealist – here are 10 highights from the career of one of music’s true individuals
1 (Looking For) The Heart of Saturday NightWhat’s most remarkable about Tom Waits’s 1973 debut album, Closing Time, is just how unremarkable it is. There are some great songs, sure: the instrumental title track, and Martha, which could be a Neil Diamond tune performed by Willie Nelson, as well as Ol ’55 – covered by Asylum labelmates the Eagles – about whom Waits was publicly sniffy, biting the hand that fed him. Read More...