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Who is DiJonai Carrington? WNBA star who smacked Sophie Cunningham, got ejected and blamed ‘White privilege’
DiJonai Carrington, a Chicago Sky guard, was ejected from a WNBA game on Saturday after striking Indiana Fever star Sophie Cunningham in the head and neck during a fast-break play. The incident has escalated into a wider row after Carrington took to social media and appeared to invoke “White privilege” in response to the backlash,…
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The surprising 1978 movie Stanley Kubrick called the “most interesting” of the decade
Stanley Kubrick, notoriously guarded about revealing his cinematic preferences, made a rare exception when he repeatedly praised Claudia Weill’s 1978 independent film Girlfriends. In a 1980 interview, when asked about the impact of contemporaries such as Martin Scorsese, Steven Spielberg and Francis Ford Coppola on American cinema, Kubrick sidestepped the question to focus instead on…
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Today, No Man’s Sky celebrates a decade since its launch, and boy has it come a long way
No Man’s Sky, the space exploration game from British studio Hello Games, marks its tenth anniversary today, having transformed from one of gaming’s most notorious launch failures into one of its most celebrated redemption stories. The game launched on 9 August 2016 to widespread criticism after lead developer Sean Murray had promised features that were…
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This is giving Jamie T, the streets n the prodigy
This YouTube Short shares a track that’s being compared to a mix of Jamie T’s scrappy, rap-inflected indie style, the raw storytelling swagger of The Streets, and the frantic electronic energy of The Prodigy. It suggests a genre-blending sound that pulls together spoken-word delivery with punchy, high-tempo production. The post appears to be a discovery…
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The classic 1990s movie Steven Spielberg described as his greatest “resentment”
Steven Spielberg described making 1993’s Jurassic Park alongside Schindler’s List as a source of resentment and anger, because he had to divide his attention between two radically different films. The experience matters because both became defining successes in his career, despite the considerable creative and emotional strain involved in completing them at the same time.…
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Jeremy Clarkson shares bleak update on Diddly Squat Farm: TV presenter complains his harvest is ‘f*****’ ahead of UK’s fifth heatwave
Jeremy Clarkson has given a downbeat update on the state of his Diddly Squat Farm harvest, describing it in blunt terms as the UK braces for its fifth heatwave of the summer. The former Top Gear presenter, who has documented the trials of running his Oxfordshire farm in his Amazon Prime series, used characteristically colourful…
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What was the first commercially available soundtrack album?
The article explores the history of movie soundtracks and identifies Walt Disney’s *Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs* as the first commercially available soundtrack album, released in 1938. Music had long been integral to cinema, from live piano and orchestral accompaniment during the silent era to the rise of the “talkies” after 1927, when studios…
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“They didn’t see it as a sign of respect”: The awful practice that plagued punk concerts in the 1970s
The article, from Far Out Magazine, uses recent complaints from artists such as Olivia Rodrigo and Noah Kahan about fans behaving badly at gigs as a springboard to look back at “gobbing” – the practice of spitting between bands and audiences that was rife at punk concerts in the 1970s. Far from being a modern…
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The exact moment Joan Baez knew she could sing: “The rest is history”
Joan Baez has recalled the moment she first realised she could sing, describing how a school setback pushed her towards the vibrato-driven voice that would define her career. Speaking to Jane Fonda in a 2023 interview for Interview magazine, Baez explained that missing out on a school singing group led her to practise a wobbling…