Thy name is woman: female Hamlets from Sarah Bernhardt to Cush Jumbo - in pictures | Stage
Thy name is woman: female Hamlets from Sarah Bernhardt to Cush Jumbo - in pictures Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email Ophelia and Gertrude are the chief female characters in Hamlet but many female actors have taken on the lead role itself including Asta Nielsen, Frances de la Tour and Maxine Peake
Main image: Cush Jumbo as Hamlet.
Wellbourne, Bristol: A curates egg of an evening restaurant review | Felicity Cloake
RestaurantsReviewOne of the few downsides of this gig is that if you see something weird on a menu, you feel duty bound to order it
I’m excited about Wellbourne. It’s in Clifton Village, the higgledy-piggledy Bristol neighbourhood where I spent many happy evenings as an annoying youth – though, as I keep hearing from smug residents, the city’s food scene has moved on since those halcyon days of Whiteladies kebabs and half-pints of scrumpy.
Whats in store for 2024? Read our experts predictions, from Trump 2.0 to a super el Nio
The ObserverWorld newsWill KJ-T strike Olympic gold? Will Sunak go for an early election? How much will Taylor Swift fans bring to the UK economy? From tech to fashion, food to politics, the Observer’s top writers predict who and what will make the headlines
Fashion and lifestyleby Ellie Bramley
Fashion and lifestyle have a knack for the surprise. The out-of-the-blue rise of butter moulding, say, or the sudden coolness of a shoe with a cloven toe.
William Barnes England's Rabbie Burns | Paul Kingsnorth
OpinionPoetry This article is more than 12 years oldWilliam Barnes – England's Rabbie BurnsThis article is more than 12 years oldPaul KingsnorthAs Scotland celebrates Rabbie Burns we should remember England's own poet with a causeThis is a tale of two poets. Today one of them, Robert Burns, will be remembered worldwide, on his birthday, in a global frenzy of haggis and dialect verse that will fan out from Scotland across North America, Dubai, Russia, Japan, Indonesia, Brazil, Nigeria and Europe.
California creates Ebony alert to find missing Black women and girls | California
‘Our Black children and young women are disproportionately represented on the lists of missing persons,’ said Steven Bradford, state senator and author of bill. Photograph: Vanessa Carvalho/Shutterstock‘Our Black children and young women are disproportionately represented on the lists of missing persons,’ said Steven Bradford, state senator and author of bill. Photograph: Vanessa Carvalho/ShutterstockGuns and liesCalifornia This article is more than 3 months oldCalifornia creates ‘Ebony alert’ to find missing Black women and girlsThis article is more than 3 months oldSystem intended to rectify disproportionate number of abducted and sex-trafficked Black children overlooked as ‘runaways’
Don DeLillos Underworld still hits a home run
RereadingFictionBig structures of history and luminous private lives, nuclear fear and baseball … Don DeLillo’s 1997 novel captures the US in the second half of the 20th century. The author of The Flamethrowers hails it as a masterpiece
These are things I don’t forget: a secretary in a Mondrian dress. A 60s sexy secretary. And advertising. And Mondrian. A man who grabs an oil drum with a fire burning inside it, drags the drum toward baseball fans, fathers and sons lined up on a cold night to buy World Series tickets.
Gaby Hinsliff | The Guardian
He hopes to free young people from the shackles of Brexit so they can work and study in the EU. For remainers, it’s a relief to hear, says Guardian columnist Gaby Hinsliff Published: 22 Jan 2024 ncG1vNJzZmivp6x7tbTEoKyaqpSerq96wqikaKiipLOquMRonpqaqZ22r7%2FLop2f
Hope Hicks: her career at Trump's side in pictures | US news
Hope Hicks: her career at Trump's side – in pictures Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email The White House communications director has resigned after a whirlwind three years in which the former model with zero political experience became one of the president’s closest aides
Main image: The White House communications director and presidential adviser, Hope Hicks, before her resignation.
Jean Anderson | Media | The Guardian
MediaObituaryJean AndersonPopular character actress who brought to life a vast gallery of roles on stage, screen and televisionTipsy aunts, querulous matrons, fearsome matriarchs, plucky parents, condescending aristocrats, taciturn chaperones, tight-lipped nannies, crusty aunts, gossipy grandmas, suspicious wives, elderly gamblers, theatrical dames, snooty dowagers, nosy spinsters and rural snobs - Jean Anderson, who has died aged 93, had a way of giving to each a singular presence, vitality, dignity and truth.
Jim Haynes obituary | Stage
StageObituaryJim Haynes obituaryIndefatigable leading light in the arts counterculture who founded the Traverse theatre and campaigned for sexual liberation
Jim Haynes, who has died aged 87, was someone who made extraordinary things happen. In Edinburgh in the late 1950s, he founded Britain’s first paperback bookshop – not just a shop but a “salon”, as he put it, where people could arrange to meet, have coffee, or just chat with the voluble, ever-welcoming proprietor.