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Allah supreme: how Pharoah Sanders found freedom and rebellion in Islam

Posted on March 31, 2024 | 11 minutes | 2206 words | Aldo Pusey

It's giving 2022Pharoah SandersThe saxophonist was among an assembly of American jazz musicians who reached across continents to find meaning in sound The day the music died was 24 September 2022. On that Saturday, the legendary tenor saxophonist Pharoah Sanders, a man who blew his horn “as if he was a dragon breathing fire”, passed on, at age 81. With his death came the end of a majestic era, a time of saxophone spirituality and musical mysticism that will probably never be surpassed or even replicated. [Read More]

Arron Banks launches Breitbart-style site Westmonster | Media

Posted on March 31, 2024 | 3 minutes | 521 words | Chauncey Koziol

Media This article is more than 7 years oldArron Banks launches Breitbart-style site WestmonsterThis article is more than 7 years old‘Anti-establishment’ site is being edited by Nigel Farage’s former press officer and will mix aggregation and some original content Arron Banks, the biggest financial backer of the campaign to leave the EU, has launched a website which will attempt to tap into the movement that led to the vote to leave. [Read More]

Audrey Tautou: My subject in these photos is somebody between the character and who I am | Aud

Posted on March 31, 2024 | 6 minutes | 1243 words | Kary Bruening

‘Dramatic and playful’: an image from Superfacial. Photograph: Audrey Tautou‘Dramatic and playful’: an image from Superfacial. Photograph: Audrey TautouThe ObserverAudrey TautouInterviewAudrey Tautou: ‘My subject in these photos is somebody between the character and who I am’Alex ClarkThe French actor has been in the public eye since Amélie in 2001. Now, in her first show as a photographer, she’s playing around with that image ‘I’m an interesting subject,” says Audrey Tautou, the French actor who exhibited her photographs for the first time this summer at the Arles festival under the title Superfacial. [Read More]

Country diary: the other golden flowers that inspired Wordsworth

Posted on March 31, 2024 | 2 minutes | 396 words | Chauncey Koziol

Country diaryWild flowersWenlock Edge, Shropshire: Celandines are closely linked in name and folklore with the swallows that zip over Windmill Hill Lesser celandine, Ficaria verna, is a sight for sore eyes. In the hailstorm it folds in on itself, “In close self-shelter, like a Thing at rest” in Wordsworth’s poem The Lesser Celandine. When the rain stops, its starry buttercups open to the sun over heart-shaped leaves close to the ground, it spreads through damp woods and hedgebanks, a yellow splash before other flowers and leaves crowd it out. [Read More]

Henry Wade | | The Guardian

Posted on March 31, 2024 | 4 minutes | 773 words | Aldo Pusey

ObituaryHenry WadeThe lawyer who precipitated one of the most controversial judicial decisions in American history has died in Texas at the age of 86. Henry Wade, district attorney for Dallas County, first acquired international fame in 1964, when he led the prosecution of Jack Ruby for murdering President Kennedy's alleged assassin, Lee Harvey Oswald. In 1970, however, Wade became even more notorious by prosecuting a local waitress, Norma McCorvey, for seeking an abortion, when state law permitted termination only if the woman's life was in danger. [Read More]

Oxford United 0-3 Arsenal: FA Cup third round as it happened | FA Cup

Posted on March 31, 2024 | 9 minutes | 1792 words | Jenniffer Sheldon

9 Jan 202317.05 ESTThank you very much for joining me. The wonderful Nick Ames has written a report in Oxford. Nketiah doubles up as Arsenal run away from Oxford in second halfRead more9 Jan 202317.02 ESTKarl Robinson: “We lost control of the game in the middle of the second half. I question if it was a free-kick for the first. I think the scream helped win it. “My players did the club proud, we fought in all areas of the game. [Read More]

RSF paramilitary seizes control of Wad Madani, Sudans second city | Sudan

Posted on March 31, 2024 | 3 minutes | 434 words | Valentine Belue

Sudan This article is more than 1 month oldRSF paramilitary seizes control of Wad Madani, Sudan’s second cityThis article is more than 1 month oldAdvance comes after three days of intense fighting that forced thousands to flee towards the south Sudan’s Rapid Support Forces (RSF) have seized Wad Madani, the country’s second city, which had taken in hundreds of thousands of refugees from the capital, Khartoum, early in the eight-month war between the regular army and the paramilitary RSF. [Read More]

What are the weirdest lyrics of all time? | Music

Posted on March 31, 2024 | 3 minutes | 467 words | Aldo Pusey

Music blogMusicWhat are the weirdest lyrics of all time?The Killers have topped a survey which lists the most nonsensical lyrics of all time. But aren’t there more avant-garde examples out there? Let us know Who would have thought it, Mormon stadium rock band The Killers are the weirdest band in the world. Well, at least their lyrics are said to be: the group’s 2008 single has been named the possessor of the oddest phrase in music - “are we human or are we dancer? [Read More]

Decked out for a dictator

Posted on March 30, 2024 | 2 minutes | 340 words | Valentine Belue

Saddam HusseinSaddam Hussein's old yacht, which can be yours for about $30m (£19m), stands as a testament to all that power, vanity, greed and cash could get you, circa 1981. That's when the Qadisiyah Saddam, lately rechristened the Ocean Breeze, was built by the Danish shipyard Helsingor Vaerft. Apart from the period decor - these days more reminiscent of a 1970s seaside hotel than an ocean-going seat of power - the 82m yacht also reportedly boasts bulletproof windows, gold taps, an operating theatre, a helipad, prayer room, several swimming pools and 27 bedrooms. [Read More]