Caroline

Caroline O'Connor appears before a baseball game against the Philadelphia Phillies, April 15, 2022, in Miami.Lynne Sladky | APThe Miami Marlins will be led by two of the highest-ranking women in professional sports.The organization announced on Monday that owner Bruce Sherman is promoting Caroline O'Connor to president of business operations, effective immediately.The move makes the Marlins the first pro sports team to have women operating the entirety of the team's day-to-day business. In 2020, the team hired Kim Ng as…

The first single I ever boughtNo Scrubs by TLC. My dad would have given me some pocket money – he might even have taken me to the shop; we used to do everything together on weekends. It must have been a CD single. I remember being really proud of it. I grew up obsessed with music television, and the video is so iconic. It’s basically TLC in these fabulous silver space suits, rapping about how they don’t want to be with wastemen – which we can all relate to. My karaoke go-toWe Belong Together by Mariah Carey. Obviously I…

The boxer Tyson Fury is set to release his debut single to raise money for the men’s mental health charity Talk Club.The two-time world heavyweight champion has covered Neil Diamond’s Sweet Caroline, with the song slated for release next month.The track was chosen thanks to its status as a fan favourite at many UK sporting events, with Fury saying he feels a particular connection to the track. “Sweet Caroline is a record I’ve always loved and I’m excited to record and release it,” the 34-year-old said.“And thanks to the…

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Over the course of her distinguished career, Caroline Moorehead has created an oeuvre that is varied and yet also thematically coherent. As well as writing about trailblazing women – Freya Stark, Iris Origo, Martha Gellhorn and Lucie de la Tour du Pin – she has also focused on pacifists, refugees and deportees. Her books are scholarly and readable because she always seems able to find stories that combine history and human rights, female bravery and antifascism (or else nonconformity).Edda Mussolini is, perhaps, a subject…

Illustration: Grandfailure (Adobe Stock)io9 is proud to present fiction from LIGHTSPEED MAGAZINE. Once a month, we feature a story from Lightspeed’s current issue. This month’s selection is “Primordial Soup and Salad” by Gene Doucette. You can read the story below or listen to the podcast on Lightspeed’s website. Enjoy!Primordial Soup and SaladWallace Englund, captain of the United Space Fleet vessel Caroline, stared out his private office window at the only view he’d had for nearly four years—outer space, in all its…

I Am Not A FalconerI am standing in this fieldHolding my glove in the airShould I whistle?I can’t whistleWill she get lost?Take shelter in a charming tree?It’s starting to rainIs that bad?This is a woolly gloveCalm downFalconers are patientIt’s very windyThe sky is so bigShe could be literally anywherePenzanceIndiaWhy did I let her go?I’m not a falconer!Do I just keep standing here?I’d go home and changeInto appropriate footwearBut what if I missed her?I bet falcons are like FedexThe second you nip to the loo …What am I…

Photo: Bryan Bedder (Getty Images)Say cheese! New York Comic Con 2022 is here and you know what that means? Cosplay. Lots of it. Characters from every universe, every comic, every TV show, every movie—the New York fans show up when Comic Con comes to town and here, we’ve put together a stunning collection of amazing cosplay.You’ll see a bunch of people cosplaying as X-Men, Spider-Man characters, the Fantastic Four, What If? characters, familiar faces from The Boys, horror icons, Stranger Things favorites, Lord of the…

This book’s title might suggest a history of the London Underground map of 1933 (which is technically a diagram), the one created by Harry Beck and resembling electric circuitry. But it’s really a history of London Underground maps plural, albeit with Beck as the star of the show. After all, there were underground maps before him, and there have been others since, because his original game-changer has been much messed with. Caroline Roope’s lucid and thoroughly researched study can also be read as a history of London…

Think of the Greek or Roman body, and what might come to mind is the chilly perfection of a marble sculpture. The Apollo Belvedere, for example: a Roman copy of a Hellenistic original, rediscovered in the Renaissance, installed in the Vatican by Julius II, regarded as “the miracle of art” by 18th-century German art historian Johann Joachim Winckelmann.In Exposed, Cambridge classicist Caroline Vout takes a very different approach. The bodies she considers are fallible and fleshy; they are sticky, malodorous and…