Actor Daryl McCormack: I long to be connected to people and sometimes I dont read the room

 Posted on May 27, 2024  |  3 minutes  |  632 words  |  Delta Gatti

The Q&ALife and styleThe Peaky Blinders star on zoning out, missing cues, and being punched while dressed as a rabbit at a St Patrick’s Day parade Born in Ireland, Daryl McCormack, 30, studied theatre and performance in Dublin. In 2018, he made his West End debut in Martin McDonagh’s The Lieutenant of Inishmore, and in 2019 he was cast as Isaiah Jesus in Peaky Blinders. He stars opposite Emma Thompson in Good Luck to You, Leo Grande and is nominated for both rising star and best leading actor at this year’s Bafta film awards, which are on 19 February. [Read More]

Everything got wrecked: Vermont city begins cleanup after devastating flood | Vermont

 Posted on May 27, 2024  |  4 minutes  |  758 words  |  Barrett Giampaolo

Vermont This article is more than 6 months old‘Everything got wrecked’: Vermont city begins cleanup after devastating floodThis article is more than 6 months oldDebris from wrecked homes and businesses fills Montpelier’s streets two days after Winooski River broke banks amid heavy rain Extreme heat and floods plague US – latest updates The devastated city of Montpelier, Vermont, was beginning a major cleanup effort on Wednesday, two days after the Winooski River broke its banks when a summer’s worth of rain fell in a few hours and devastated the city. [Read More]

Mariah Carey: 'I try not to be a jerk. I really do'

 Posted on May 27, 2024  |  16 minutes  |  3323 words  |  Christie Applegate

Mariah CareyReviewClaims of crazy diva demands, her unhappy first marriage and that spat with Eminem - in a frank interview, the singer tells allMariah Carey makes a low-key entrance – as low-key as someone in four-inch heels, bouffant hair and lashes as lacquered as hockey sticks can do. It's 11pm and the restaurant in downtown Manhattan is almost empty. She has been filming an advert all day and has walked – walked! (an assistant points to this fact as to Jesus on water) – from her apartment around the corner. [Read More]

Napster founder plans to screen movies at home on day they hit cinemas | Movies

 Posted on May 27, 2024  |  3 minutes  |  547 words  |  Delta Gatti

Movies This article is more than 7 years oldNapster founder plans to screen movies at home on day they hit cinemasThis article is more than 7 years oldRevolutionary Screening Room venture by Sean Parker could end ‘theatrical window’ by offering new films at $50 a pop – despite industry doubts A new service that would make major blockbusters available at home on the same day they hit cinemas has been proposed by the Napster founder, Sean Parker, despite reports of major misgivings in Hollywood. [Read More]

Older women star in fashion campaigns in pictures | Fashion

 Posted on May 27, 2024  |  2 minutes  |  353 words  |  Brenda Moya

Older women star in fashion campaigns – in pictures Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email Maggie Smith, 88, is the latest to join the ranks of older models including Charlotte Rampling and Helen Mirren in shoots and on catwalks Loewe and behold: how older models are casting a spell on fashion Main image: The actor Dame Maggie Smith stars in Loewe’s spring/summer 2024 pre-collection campaign. [Read More]

Top 10 mountain bike rides in the Alps

 Posted on May 27, 2024  |  18 minutes  |  3691 words  |  Christie Applegate

‘Singletrack and stunning backdrops …’ Saint-Luc, Switzerland‘Singletrack and stunning backdrops …’ Saint-Luc, SwitzerlandCycling holidaysWith high-altitude blasts, epic rocky descents and hidden singletracks, mountain biking in the Alps is a fun and fast-paced assault on the senses. Here, the author of a new guidebook, Alps Mountain Biking, picks his pedal-pushing highlights Saint-Luc, SwitzerlandHigh in the giddy, vertical world of the Anniviers valley, Saint-Luc offers quintessential Swiss singletrack set against seriously stunning backdrops. [Read More]

'Traitors to their class': meet the super rich who want to be taxed more

 Posted on May 26, 2024  |  5 minutes  |  963 words  |  Merlyn Hunt

Lawrence Beneson, in his office where he is a principal of the Benenson Capital Company, a New York real-estate firm. Photograph: Lauren Lancaster/The GuardianLawrence Beneson, in his office where he is a principal of the Benenson Capital Company, a New York real-estate firm. Photograph: Lauren Lancaster/The GuardianBig moneyUS taxationA group known as The Patriotic Millionaires, including figures such as Abigail Disney, say the wealthy have too much influence and contribute too little [Read More]

A moment that changed me: I was vilified as a gay teenager but Mariah Carey saved me

 Posted on May 26, 2024  |  5 minutes  |  1020 words  |  Delta Gatti

A moment that changed meLife and styleAt my boys’ school I was shoved, spat at and brutally bullied. Carey’s songs made me dig deep and keep going, even when I had a breakdown years later I was 12 when it happened. Dad was parking the car and we were getting ready for a torturous hour of food shopping. Suddenly, over the radio, I heard a voice that today is one of the most recognisable in the world, but at the time it was new to me: a whispery, breathy voice that floated and fluttered over a slinky, laid-back track. [Read More]

Joy and defiance at gathering led by Amazonian chief Raoni Metuktire

 Posted on May 26, 2024  |  7 minutes  |  1443 words  |  Barrett Giampaolo

Indigenous peoplesClimate concerns prominent as hundreds attend celebration of chief’s nominal 91st birthday During the world’s hottest month in more than 100,000 years, Indigenous men, women and children from all over Brazil made their way into one of the last great holdouts of the Amazon rainforest for a celebration tinged with sadness and defiance. Amid rising concerns of drought and growing evidence that the biggest trees in the forest are beginning to die off, they came to Xingu national park to pay their respects to the most effective Amazon protector of them all, the Indigenous chief Raoni Metukire, who has indicated he may be coming towards the end of his activist days. [Read More]

Open House: The Great Sex Experiment review a horribly compelling peek at threesomes

 Posted on May 26, 2024  |  4 minutes  |  649 words  |  Christie Applegate

TV reviewTelevision & radioReviewThe night vision footage of noisy, slurpy group sex has zero educational value, and it’s often unbearably awkward, but this look at couples’ journeys into non-monogamy is hard to resist About halfway through the first episode of Open House: The Great Sex Experiment (Channel 4), three words confirmed a growing suspicion that I was out of my comfort zone: “erotic group game”. It’s not you, Channel 4, it’s me. [Read More]