Kate Upton: how style magazines fell for her big-breasted look

 Posted on June 26, 2024  |  5 minutes  |  1022 words  |  Valentine Belue

Ask HadleyFashionThe Sports Illustrated model now appears on Vogue covers too. But fashion's appreciation of her curvy body may just be a brief flirtationNow that Kate Upton has been on the covers of both US and UK Vogue, does this mean breasts are now officially in fashion? Name withheld, by email If only it were so simple, Name Withheld, if only it were. As you beadily note, Kate Upton – a beautiful and well-upholstered model who was previously best known for wearing near-non-existent bikinis on the cover of Sports Illustrated's deeply sporty annual swimsuit issue – was recently on the cover of US Vogue and is currently on the cover of the UK version, having previously appeared on it in January 2013. [Read More]

Mallory Swanson signs reported $2m contract with Chicago Red Stars | NWSL

 Posted on June 26, 2024  |  3 minutes  |  435 words  |  Valentine Belue

NWSLMallory Swanson signs reported $2m contract with Chicago Red StarsUSWNT international has been with team since 2021NWSL salary cap has risen 40% after broadcast dealMallory Swanson has signed the largest contract in NWSL history after agreeing a new deal with the Chicago Red Stars. The USWNT forward’s contract is for four years, with an option for a fifth, and is worth $2m, according to ESPN. Swanson’s deal marks the first four-year contract in NWSL history. [Read More]

Steely Dans 20 greatest songs ranked! | Steely Dan

 Posted on June 26, 2024  |  7 minutes  |  1295 words  |  Jenniffer Sheldon

Donald Fagen of Steely Dan at the Roseland Ballroom, New York, in 1995. Photograph: Gie Knaeps/Getty ImagesWith November marking 50 years since their debut album, we pick the best of the band’s idiosyncratic output, with tales of capitalism, drug dealers and mid-life crises by Alexis Petridis20. Any Major Dude Will Tell You (1974)Charming is seldom an adjective applied to Steely Dan’s patent brand of sardonic pessimism, but it fits the relatively simplistic, acoustic guitar-driven Any Major Dude Will Tell You, on which a depressed friend is apparently unironically encouraged to see the bright side: it’s a genuinely sweet song. [Read More]

Whiskey Tango Foxtrot by David Shafer review a hair-raising thriller about data theft

 Posted on June 26, 2024  |  4 minutes  |  763 words  |  Aldo Pusey

ThrillersReview‘The so-called “right-to-privacy” means less every day … ’ This whip-smart novel is a polemical addition to the debate on Big Data Commenting in these pages on recent developments in the Snowden whistleblowing saga, Shami Chakrabarti, director of the campaign group Liberty, was moved to suggest: “Who needs the movies?” You could equally ask whether there is anything within David Shafer’s debut novel – about a sinister cabal of Big Data magnates scheming to seize the world’s information and sell it back to us via its own proprietary platform – that could possibly outpace actual events. [Read More]

A Georgia girl was murdered in 1972. Her parents died not knowing her killer

 Posted on June 25, 2024  |  4 minutes  |  762 words  |  Kary Bruening

GeorgiaCold-case investigators worked for more than 20 years to identify the man who killed nine-year-old Debbie Lynn Randall John and Juanita Randall died in recent years without ever knowing who kidnapped, raped and strangled their daughter after she went across the street from their family’s home north of Atlanta, Georgia, to run an errand in 1972. But authorities never stopped pursuing the truth about nine-year-old Debbie Lynn Randall’s slaying, and this week, their community learned the identity of her killer. [Read More]

Jarvis Cocker: how Tom Wolfe's The Electric KoolAid Acid Test changed my life

 Posted on June 25, 2024  |  11 minutes  |  2330 words  |  Kary Bruening

BooksAt the dawn of the 1960s, Ken Kesey and his Merry Pranksters were dropping LSD and kickstarting a revolution – and Wolfe went along for the ride, capturing the birth of the counterculture Tom Wolfe’s The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test is a literary “gateway drug” – a hallucination of a book that introduced me to a whole new way of looking at the world, writing about the world, and gave me my first taste of the work of the American novelist Ken Kesey. [Read More]

Macedonia statue: Alexander the Great or a warrior on a horse? | North Macedonia

 Posted on June 25, 2024  |  6 minutes  |  1204 words  |  Chauncey Koziol

North Macedonia This article is more than 12 years oldMacedonia statue: Alexander the Great or a warrior on a horse?This article is more than 12 years oldLookalike statue reignites debate with Greece over Macedonian name as Skopje locals dismiss works as nationalistic kitschIn a move that has upset the Greeks, Alexander the Great has made a huge comeback in Macedonia. A giant statue bearing an uncanny resemblance to the warrior king – although, officially, no one dares call it that – has been erected in the heart of Skopje, Macedonia's capital. [Read More]

Neel Mukherjee | The Guardian

 Posted on June 25, 2024  |  1 minutes  |  65 words  |  Jenniffer Sheldon

Neel Mukherjee was born in Calcutta and educated in Calcutta, Oxford, and Cambridge. He is the author of the Man Booker prize-shortlisted The Lives of Others, A Life Apart (2010), and Past Continuous (2008). He reviews fiction for the Times and the Sunday Telegraph and has written for the TLS, the Daily Telegraph, the Observer, the New York Times, the Boston Review, and Biblio.

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Paul Konchesky leaves West Ham Women manager role after one year | West Ham United Women

 Posted on June 25, 2024  |  2 minutes  |  339 words  |  Aldo Pusey

West Ham United Women This article is more than 7 months oldPaul Konchesky leaves West Ham Women manager role after one yearThis article is more than 7 months oldFormer England defender leaves a season into his two-year dealHammers finished eighth but reached Continental Cup semisPaul Konchesky has left his position as West Ham manager after the Women’s Super League season ended on Saturday, a year after his appointment. The former England defender, who made 70 appearances for the Hammers, was promoted from assistant in May 2022 when Olli Harder departed. [Read More]

Philip Peachy Mead obituary | Comedy

 Posted on June 25, 2024  |  3 minutes  |  471 words  |  Jenniffer Sheldon

Other livesComedyObituaryPhilip ‘Peachy’ Mead obituaryMy friend Philip “Peachy” Mead, who has died aged 83, was a comedian and entertainer who was known as Norfolk’s King of Comedy. He was also the secretary and driving force of the East Anglia Variety branch of Equity, the performers’ union, for nearly 40 years. As comic and compere he hosted cabarets, music halls, stag nights and children’s parties, working in holiday camps, theatres, hotels, pubs and village halls, starting out in the early 1960s, when every major Norwich business and factory had its own social club, with cheap beer and entertainment. [Read More]