Know the scoreClassical musicHe created a new world of ravishing instrumental colour and constantly shifting sensations and images. He brought new breath to the art of music, said Boulez. Did modern music start with Debussy? It was a description he always rejected, but Claude Debussy (1862-1918) is often thought of as an impressionist, a musical equivalent to Monet or Renoir. But he was much more than a composer of ravishingly delicate piano pieces and luminously coloured orchestral tapestries.
Fiona Apple arrested on drug charge | Fiona Apple
Fiona Apple This article is more than 11 years oldFiona Apple arrested on drug chargeThis article is more than 11 years oldSinger admits to possession of hashish and marijuana found on her tour bus after search at US border patrol checkpointFiona Apple has admitted that marijuana and hashish found on her tour bus at a border stop in Texas on Wednesday, leading to her arrest, was hers.
Police from the Hudspeth County Sheriff's Office said officers performed a routine search of Apple's 2004 tour bus when it entered the US border patrol checkpoint in Sierra Blanca.
The kibbutz: 100 years old and facing an uncertain future
IsraelIn 1910, the first kibbutz was founded on strongly Zionist socialist principles. One hundred years later, the movement is still holding on. But can it survive in a globalised world?Reggie Pearlson clutched the tiny bundle close. She and her newborn son were travelling in a lorry from hospital back to the embryonic kibbutz close to the Sea of Galilee in northern Israel.
The year was 1960, and Reggie was a recent arrival from England to join a nucleus of determined pioneers, intent on building both their vision of a communal way of life and the fledgling state of Israel, declared 12 years earlier – the same year that Kibbutz Kfar Hanasi was founded.
The original cult appliance: My mother used the electric frypan constantly
Australian food and drinkUsed for everything from pikelets to chow mein to Sunday roasts, electric frying pans were once ubiquitous in Australian kitchens
Get our weekend culture and lifestyle email I double-check the address that’s been sent to me through Facebook Marketplace and ring the doorbell. Jennifer answers the door, asks if I’m Tristan, and hands me my glimmering prize: a 1957 Sunbeam electric frypan. It is in full working order.
Ex-White House interns urge Biden to support immediate ceasefire in Gaza | Joe Biden
Joe BidenEx-White House interns urge Biden to support immediate ceasefire in GazaA group comprising 2022 and 2023 interns signed a letter accusing the president of having ‘betrayed’ his promise by supporting Israel
A group of former White House interns signed an open letter to Joe Biden imploring his administration to support an immediate ceasefire in the Israel-Gaza war.
The signatories, which include interns who worked in the White House and executive office of the president during 2022 and the summer of 2023, accuse the president of having “betrayed” his promise to pursue equality and justice by supporting Israel’s bombardment in Gaza.
Like youre in a horror movie: pollution leaves New Zealand wetlands irreversibly damaged
New ZealandEcologists say some bodies of water may already have passed the tipping points from which they may never recover
As David Klee nosed his boat out into the channels of Whangamarino, he saw the birds were dying. Hundreds were already dead, floating, the sheen of their feathers dulling in the scum near the banks of the river. Others, he could tell, would be dead soon: flocks that should have been sent flapping in alarm by the boat’s passage sat placid, unmoving in the water.
Lord Bethell | Politics | The Guardian
PoliticsObituaryLord BethellThe former Conservative MEP Lord Bethell, the 4th Baron Bethell, has died aged 69 after suffering from Parkinson's disease. He was one of Britain's leading experts on eastern Europe, writing under the name of Nicholas Bethell, both as an objective analyst and controversial translator, especially of the dissident Soviet writer Alexander Solzhenitsyn.
Curiously, Bethell's unauthorised translation and publication of Solzhenitsyn's Cancer Ward terminated his only post in the Lords, as a Conservative whip, in January 1971, after only seven months.
Mary Wilson obituary | Pop and rock
Pop and rockObituaryMary Wilson obituaryFounding member of the Supremes, one of the greatest groups to come out of MotownAlthough she had to wait more than a decade before taking the lead on one of their hit singles, Mary Wilson was the force that held the Supremes together through the episodes of tragedy and internal strife that marked the history of the most successful female pop group of the 1960s. Having endured the removal of one original member, the troubled Florence Ballard, and the defection of another, Diana Ross, to solo stardom, Wilson – who has died aged 76 – worked with their replacements to keep the group’s name going.
Small 'planet' Pluto rides large on world wide web's meme machine | Pluto
Pluto This article is more than 8 years oldSmall 'planet' Pluto rides large on world wide web's meme machineThis article is more than 8 years oldThe internet’s dwarf planet-watchers gaze into Pluto’s newly revealed landscape and see everything from the Death Star to a Wrecking Ball
It took Nasa’s New Horizons probe nine years to reach Pluto and complete its historic flyby, but it only took the internet about nine minutes to transform the incredible new image into a canvas for pop culture fun.
The Doors: 10 of the best | The Doors
10 of the bestThe DoorsThe Doors: 10 of the bestThe Doors remain one of the most influential band of the 60s, with charismatic frontman Jim Morrison and songs that swirl with poetry, sex and death
1 Light My Fire
Few bands divide critical opinion like the Doors. For some, they dine at the top table of the critically revered, their company typified by Julie Burchill’s line that Roxy Music, at their very best, were “better than David Bowie, than the Supremes, than the Doors, than the Sex Pistols, than anyone I imagine I will ever hear”.