“John Paul Mulready (40) burst into his neighbour’s flat brandishing a serrated peeling knife after hammering at the door shouting … The injured party, Dermot Byrne, told [police] that there was a brief standoff after he picked up a frying pan to defend himself, but then Mulready tackled him to the ground, stabbed him in the leg and bit him on the face. Mr Byrne, who composes poetry, eventually got rid of the attacker by swinging a large bottle of vodka at him after another neighbour intervened.” (This really should have happened in Florida.)
Author: Matthew Westphal
Should Homes For The Elderly Be Hiring Pole Dancers To Perform? Why Not?
When one such community in England did this, many tongues were clucked and pearls clutched. “Why inappropriate?”, writes Michele Hanson, “It looked more like gymnastics than rudeness to me. … [The residents] were perhaps sick and tired of bingo, singalongs, banging tambourines, crosswords, telly, chair-yoga, arts and crafts, mindfulness and reminiscences. Not that I want to criticise these pastimes – they’re all lovely, if that’s what you like – but pole dancing makes a refreshing change.”
Liv Ullman Talks About Her (Widely Misunderstood) Relationship With Ingmar Bergman
“We did three movies [in the five years] when we lived together. … I made 10 or 11 movies after that, too, as an actor and director. We had an incredibly deep and wonderful friendship in this time. … We quarreled, sure, but we became friends again very quickly, too. But when we quarreled, we really quarreled. He was surprised, because I seemed so timid and quiet, but I was his equal in these arguments.”
Why Sridevi, The Late Bollywood Superstar, Was Even More Extraordinary Than Most Of The Obits Said
It’s not just that she was adept in musicals, difficult dramatic roles, and comedy alike, or that she made movies in five languages. It’s not even that she was the first actress in Bollywood to demand, and get, billing and pay equal to those of male stars. She hugely expanded the types of heroine (and anti-heroine) that Bollywood actresses could play, and that their audiences would accept.
Is The Octopus Really The Resourceful, Impish Genius Of The Invertebrate World?
Videos and anecdotes of octopuses escaping from predators (and research labs), manipulating tools (and researchers), and so on have made the clever cephalopods the internet’s favorite animals after cat and dogs. In a notable bit of debunking (or party-pooping) – subtitled “It’s not a crafty, soulful genius. It’s dinner.” – Daniel Engber argues that we shouldn’t overestimate these mollusks.
How Zombies And Plagues Have Infiltrated Our Culture And Worldview
“For decades, artists have been using horror to speak to our deepest societal fears, from the wilderness (werewolves) to the unknown (aliens). With zombies, that fear is infection: the outbreak of some terrible epidemic that sweeps the world, rendering us all into the drooling, flesh-eating monster next door. … Why have these outbreak narratives infected the public conversation? And how have they affected the way we see the world?” (podcast)
The Making Of ‘Get Out’: An Oral History Of ‘The First Great Movie Of The Trump Era’
“As one of the most unlikely Oscar Best Picture nominees in years, Get Out is being taught in courses on racism and Afro¬futurism. It began as an insight in the brain of creator Jordan Peele during the 2008 primary fight between Obama and Hillary Clinton and premiered at Sundance within a week of Donald Trump’s inauguration. This is the story of how Get Out got out.”
‘Become Desert’ – John Luther Adams Writes About His Latest Score (And The Change Of Life That Led To It)
“Throughout my years in Alaska, I dreamed of a new music drawn from the light, the air, the landscapes, and the weather of the North. Now as I’ve begun to learn the landforms, the light, the weather, the plants, and the birds of the desert, I’ve begun to dream of music that resonates with these extraordinary landscapes. … Like the tundra, most deserts are places in which there are few people. It’s true that this is part of the reason I’m drawn to these landscapes. But for me, the essence of the desert is not absence. It is presence.”
How A Professor Tracked Down A Seller Of Looted Ancient Papyri
Roberta Mazza of the University of Manchester writes about her search for the origins of a Coptic fragment of Paul’s Letter to the Galatians that appeared on eBay in 2008 and ended up – like too many other pieces of dubious provenance – in the collection that forms the basis of the Museum of the Bible in D.C.
Spotify Files To Go Public On New York Stock Exchange
“[The] decision to go public has been expected and in the works for months … As of December 31, Spotify has 159 million monthly active users and 71 million subscribers, as in those who pay to use the service. In its F-1 filing, Spotify notes that it expects these numbers are ‘nearly double the scale of our closest competitor, Apple Music.'”