You might assume that you know what to expect from Nala Sinephro’s second album. Its Brussels-born, London-based author is noted for making music that exists where experimental electronica abuts the renewed interest in late-60s/early 70s “spiritual” jazz that underpinned the London jazz renaissance of recent years. A contemporary of Shabaka Hutchings and Nubya Garcia – … Read more
Teresita Fernández is a landscape artist – but these are not landscapes as we know them. Rather than a spot on a map, her understanding of the term extends from the depths of the Earth to the cosmos, and from the cellular to the psychological. Her vast mosaic panel sculptures and wall reliefs of cartographies … Read more
Harry Wilson’s first game for his country was Craig Bellamy’s last, a draw in Brussels that capped a fruitless 2014 World Cup qualifying campaign. A few days earlier, Wales beat Macedonia, Bellamy laying the ball on for Simon Church to score the only goal. At the time, a 16-year-old Wilson was a fixture in Liverpool’s … Read more
The Trump campaign, flanked by an army of online trolls commanded by Elon Musk, has been struggling to settle on an attack line against the Democratic ticket. Of course, a decade or so ago no one would have thought a candidate unable to think of nasty nicknames had a problem; but Donald Trump has made … Read more
Do you think hip-hop still has the cultural impact it once did when you first arrived on the scene during the Def Jam era? Can it still be considered the “Black CNN”, in the words of Chuck D? Bauhaus66Hip-hop isn’t underdog music any more. On some levels, people even view it as elitist music now. … Read more
EV go fast-charging stations in Los Angeles | Photographer: Bing Guan/Bloomberg 6 min read Last Updated : Sep 05 2024 | 6:25 PM IST For EV drivers traversing the great state of Wyoming, the Smith’s grocery store in Rock Springs is an oasis. It’s just off I-80, there’s a Petco across the street, and … Read more
A French woman whose husband allegedly drugged her and invited more than 80 men to rape her at her home for almost a decade has told a court her world collapsed when police told her of the alleged crimes. Gisèle Pélicot, 72, said “police saved my life” when they investigated her husband Dominique Pélicot’s computer … Read more
The Democratic party? Robert F Kennedy Jr’s never heard of it. On Tuesday, the former presidential candidate issued his latest condemnation of the “Democrat party”, endorsing a bizarre linguistic tradition among haters of the institution. As Donald Trump told a rally in 2018: “I call it the Democrat party. It sounds better rhetorically.” By “better”, … Read more
The latest harbinger of doom at the US Open isn’t a bad call or a broken superstition. It’s tennis balls the size of a pumpkin. As the action on court winds towards the finish, hordes of children can be observed overwhelming ushers to take up position in the front row with these giant balls, a … Read more
When I say that Astro Bot reminds me of Super Mario Galaxy, I could pay it no higher compliment. It’s not that it’s derivative: indeed it’s the very abundance of new ideas that places it up there with Nintendo’s best 3D platformers. It has taken me around its own small galaxy of planetoid-style levels, from … Read more