FictionReviewA bride-to-be is forced to confront the ugliness of her desires in this food-filled debut of class and ambition
The premise is this. Piglet is in her early 30s and engaged to the ostensibly perfect Kit. The couple have recently moved into a new-build in Oxford, not far from Kit’s parents. During the week Piglet commutes to London, where she works as an editorial assistant for a cookbook publisher. Life, 90 days from the wedding, presents as an idyll.
The Last Kingdom: episode by episodeTelevision & radioThe Last Kingdom recap: series two, episode five – rise from the grave, VikingThree years have passed, and bloodshed is heading our way – not to mention ghostly happenings and the Lady Macbeth of Wessex
This blog is for those who have watched the fifth episode of series two of The Last Kingdom. Please try and avoid book spoilers in the comments. Catch up on the episode one, two, three and four recaps here.
Digital mediaClarita needed to put herself through nursing school; Lex wanted to boost his income as a labourer – now they are erotic influencers on the subscriber site
In many ways, Lex Lederman, 28, is a classic American family man. He owns a farm in New Hampshire, where he lives with his wife and three children (plus a sizable company of chickens, pigs and geese). He’s teaching himself home renovation (plumbing, electrics, how to lay floors) and regularly helps out with homeless food charities, refugee relief, and the local high school football team.
FamilyJoey has just celebrated his 16th birthday but unlike his peers who'd have stayed up late partying, he went to bed early. His father describes the challenges – and joys – of raising a boy with profound, multiple learning difficultiesSome people would say that my second son is stupid. I understand what they mean. But it's a word that I've come to use less casually than most. Just a few days before the opening ceremony for the Paralympic Games, he had a pretty significant birthday.
NFLBills fan killed outside of Dolphins’ stadium after game, police sayDylan Brody Isaacs, 30, shot and killed outside stadiumPolice in south Florida say that investigation is ongoingPolice in south Florida say a man fatally shot a 30-year-old Buffalo Bills fan during an altercation outside Hard Rock Stadium after the Bills defeated the Miami Dolphins in the final regular-season game.
As Dylan Brody Isaacs and his friends were returning to their vehicle after the game Sunday night, they had an altercation with the driver of another vehicle, Miami Gardens police said in a news release.
Art This article is more than 8 months oldCeramicist Eriko Inazaki wins the Loewe Foundation Craft Prize This article is more than 8 months oldIn New York, author Fran Lebowitz presented the €50,000 award which champions crafts and celebrates their influence on fashion and design
Fran Lebowitz is on stage in the courtyard of New York’s Noguchi Museum, presenting the 2023 Loewe Foundation Craft Prize to Japanese ceramicist Eriko Inazaki. She’s just viewed the exhibition of work by the 30 finalists in the late sculptor Isamu Noguchi’s personal studio over the road.
Elizabeth Debicki: ‘I never expected to work on screen.’ Photograph: Gustavo Papaleo/The Guardian. Shirt, cosstores.comShe stole the show in The Night Manager: now Debicki is taking centre stage
by Tom LamontA number of competing bars have been built into the outer bulwark of the National Theatre in London, and when she emerges from rehearsals one night in September the Australian actor Elizabeth Debicki – animated, adamant, 6ft 3in – hesitates. Which bar?
The seven best shows to stream this weekTV streamingIdris Elba stars in a real-time plane hijack thriller, while the hit fantasy is back – and Henry Cavill will pass Geralt’s torch to Liam Hemsworth
Pick of the weekHijackPlenty of familiar ingredients have gone into this real-time plane hijack thriller starring Idris Elba: there’s a whole lot of 24, a little bit of Die Hard and a dash of Con Air. Elba is Sam Nelson, an enigmatic businessman-turned-conflicted vigilante travelling from Dubai to London in the hope of repairing a shattered relationship.
Survival of the freakiest Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email What would Darwin have made of the frogodile, the cabbit and the pealiot? In the photographic equivalent of natural selection, an online competition has evolved these fantasy hybrids Wed 25 Mar 2009 13.12 GMT First published on Wed 25 Mar 2009 13.12 GMT Froppotamus – part frog, part hippo Photograph: BNPS.
TelevisionObituaryMyra Frances obituaryVersatile screen and stage actor who took part in the first lesbian kiss to be screened on British television
The actor Myra Frances, who has died aged 78 of cancer, broke a British screen taboo when she and Alison Steadman shared television’s first lesbian kiss in 1974. The groundbreaking play Girl, written by James Robson, told the story of a relationship between Frances’s army NCO and Steadman’s young recruit, two decades before Anna Friel and Nicola Stephenson famously took that milestone to soap opera – and pre-watershed TV – in Brookside.