‘Listen, I don’t want to do any of that cultural stuff,” my dad, John, said, as we planned our trip to Amsterdam, “I just want to get baked.” I had gone but a short distance further when what seemed to…
Stats show Arsenal’s Francis Coquelin is the best defensive midfielder in the Premier League
The French midfielder has gone from being a bit-part fringe player to one of the most vital cogs in Arsene Wenger’s machine. And the 24-year-old has become a fan favourite among the Emirates faithful, with many claiming he is now the best…
Photographing the choreography and chaos of the England cheerleading team
Some things we presume to be the preserve of the US: putting treacle on mashed potatoes, perhaps; or Bruce Springsteen, or cheerleading.
In the original Star Wars movies, R2-D2 was no more advanced than sticking Kenny Baker in a tin can.
Then Dorothy and the Lion got up, and the girl helped the Tin Woodman put the straw back into the Scarecrow again, until he was as good as ever. Henderson stood up with his spade in his hand. “What’s that?”…
Lenny Kravitz on Getting His ‘Butt Kicked’ in ‘Guitar Hero’ and Palling Around With Hillary Clinton
When they returned to the castle the Wicked Witch beat them well with a strap, and sent them back to their work, after which she sat down to think what she should do next. She could not understand how all…
Twitter’s new CEO is Jack Dorsey
My first knowledge that I was on the wrong trail came when I heard the yells of the pursuing savages suddenly grow fainter and fainter far off to my left. I had gone but a short distance further when what…
Lara Croft’s uses new tech to tackle mysteries
Nor was it his unwonted magnitude, nor his remarkable hue, nor yet his deformed lower jaw, that so much invested the whale with natural terror, as that unexampled, intelligent malignity which, according to specific accounts, he had over and over…
Beats is announcing the first speaker that it’s made since the company was acquired by Apple last summer
Even if you aren’t a fan of the company’s high-priced in-, on-, or over-the-ear offerings, you have to admit they are all much better than the crude and plasticky Pill speaker. The new $229 speaker isn’t any sort of radical…
‘Ray Donovan’: The Deal Went Down
Hardly knowing what she did, she picked up a little bit of stick, and held it out to the puppy; whereupon the puppy jumped. Alice dodged behind a great thistle, to keep herself from being run over; and the moment…