One to watchPop and rockThe California teen’s catchy electro-pop opens a window into her turbulent emotional world
In many ways, 19-year-old singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Claire Rosinkranz is cut from the same cloth as fellow pop-punk inspired Gen Zer Olivia Rodrigo. With youthful ease, Rosinkranz candidly repackages the mixed-bag teen experience as vivid, appealing electro-pop, darting between feelings of euphoria, anxiety and ennui. “My songs are basically like a personal diary,” she said in an interview with Coup De Mainmagazine.
The 10 best ...CultureContemplate the art of physical exercise, from Manet's racehorses and Rousseau's footballers to the famous Scottish skating minister…1 | The Races at LongchampsEdouard Manet, 1867
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The Longchamps racecourse, immortalised by both Manet and Degas, is on the banks of the Seine near the Bois de Boulogne. It opened in 1857 and is still one of the world's leading thoroughbred racetracks today. Manet, a keen visitor, shows the thundering horses as a single vignette, almost neck and neck, raising clouds of dust and separated from the spectators only by a fragile fence.
Top 10sScience fiction booksFresh from writing his own first sci-fi thriller, physicist and broadcaster Jim Al-Khalili chooses favourite books that tackle the Earth in peril
Having written a number of popular science books, I decided three years ago to try my hand at fiction. How hard could it be, I reasoned arrogantly. Well, harder than I thought. But I enjoyed writing Sunfall because it’s precisely the sort of book I enjoy reading, even though lacking zombies, vampires or teenagers with superpowers, I guess Netflix won’t be buying the rights.
Games This article is more than 14 years oldAmazon pulls 'rape' computer gameThis article is more than 14 years oldA computer game in which players compete to rape women and get them to abort their babies has been pulled from sale on Amazon.com.
Rapelay, a Japanese "rape simulation" game which revolves around the premise of "hunting" down and raping a single mother and her two daughters, had been available via the online retailer's US site until an investigation by the Belfast Telegraph drew attention to it yesterday.
Gladys West, at her home in Virginia. Photograph: Andre WestGrowing up on a farm in Virginia during segregation, West knew education would be her means of escape. But she didn’t know her quiet work on a naval base would change lives around the world
by Aamna MohdinGladys West knew from a young age that she didn’t want to be a farmer. But the mathematician, born in 1930 in Dinwiddie County, Virginia, still had to help harvest crops on her family’s small farm.
Art and designInterview‘I’m staggered this isn’t front-page news’: the ‘provocative’ climate art that ended up in a cathedralCharlotte JansenInspired by global warming and the refugees who lost their lives trying to reach Europe, Shezad Dawood’s work asks difficult questions. How will it go down in church?
‘It was harrowing,” says artist Shezad Dawood. He’s recalling the time he cast eyes on the personal effects of refugees and migrants who lost their lives in the sea between North Africa and Sicily.
US news blogEllen DeGeneresLiquid-Plumr ad too racy, says rightwing activist groupAfter urging JC Penney to fire spokeswoman Ellen Degeneres, One Million Moms takes offense at steamy new Liquid-Plumr adThe creators of a sexually suggestive television ad for drain cleaner may have just gotten an unlikely publicity boost from a conservative action group.
The group One Million Moms has launched a letter writing campaign to have a new ad for Liquid-Plumr Douple Impact removed from television.
Sexual healingSexNow that I have said no, he has stormed out and I feel like I’m in the wrong
I'm 31 and my boyfriend of 18 years prefers having sex a certain way: me playing with myself while watching porn as he sleeps; then I do him while he sleeps and wake him up after. At first this was fun but then he wanted it this way all the time. If I want normal sex he shouts and says he'll go with someone else.
SportblogTour de France 2023 This article is more than 6 months oldNo more ‘Jasper disaster’: Philipsen is now sprint king in a fast-moving businessThis article is more than 6 months oldWilliam FotheringhamOnce accident-prone, the Belgian is a shoo-in for the Tour de France’s green jersey with four stage wins – and can target more
Mark Cavendish’s imminent retirement is a reminder that the sprint hierarchy in the Tour de France is an ever-changing picture.
The ObserverFictionReviewEmpathic and rich in human detail, this 1994 novel of Black life in 1950s Kansas deserves to reach a wider audience
Originally published in 1994, when its author was 55, this wonderful novel makes its first appearance in the UK to mark its (almost) 30th anniversary, and instantly emerges as a small, perfectly formed classic.
It’s a US coming-of-age tale, and may or may not be based on Maxine Clair’s own life, set as it is in the mid-50s in her native Kansas, when she herself was coming of age.