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This album begins with a sizzle reel of what Caroline Polachek can do with her voice. Floating serenely on a high thermal of coos, it dips down in pitch and speeds towards the earth, cracking as Polachek pushes it into the red. She pulls up with a Celtic folk ululation and heads back into the sky again, higher than ever, reaching the whistle register of Mariah Carey and Ariana Grande. After a final soulful flourish, the drums kick in and she begins merely talking: “Welcome to my island.”It is exhilarating to be hoisted in…

As It Happens6:32The mating dance of sea fireflies is ‘the coolest fireworks show that you've ever seen’: scientistNicholai Hensley has spent countless hours standing waist-deep in pitch-black waters off the coast of Panama, watching thousands of tiny sea creatures perform dazzling displays of bright blue light.The creatures — each the size of a sesame seed — belong to a recently discovered species of ostracod, also known as sea fireflies, whose males lure potential mates with a synchronized dance powered by iridescent…

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for freePaul Mescal’s shirtless scenes in the West End’s A Street Car Named Desire revival convinced studio executives that he was right for Ridley Scott’s forthcoming Gladiator 2.The Irish actor, 27, was confirmed to star in the Gladiator sequel in February, a month before he began his Olivier-winning six-week run leading the Phoenix theatre’s production as temperamental Stanley.However, for…

Deinfluencing involves influencers discouraging their followers from buying overpriced or otherwise ineffective products. Credit: Shutterstock A new social media trend has recently emerged in response to the materialistic nature of influencer culture: deinfluencing. This trend involves influencers discouraging their followers from buying overpriced or ineffective products. …

Imagine a plot comprising love, alcohol, marijuana, sex, pain, betrayal, and struggle. It sounds like the template of an Indian blockbuster. Yogesh Maitreya is an actor who is also staring right at the invisible audience; one that is not hidden in the dark. That audience invisibilises its sensibility and shouts out at any indications of a Dalit renaissance. The book under review is a memoir, written from a moral pedestal, that hopes to justify the author’s vulnerabilities with elaborate social commentary. An…

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Star power is a rare thing in music today, stripped away by social media overexposure and a heritage industry that trades on former glories. But PJ Harvey has an otherworldly air as she walks into a restaurant at the Barbican in London for one of her first interviews about her music in more than a decade. A thunderstorm has broken the June heatwave, and Harvey, 53, had to shelter under a ledge to keep dry on her way here. Still, Harvey looks pristine in a black vest and tiny black leather shorts, her famous dark hair in…

There are quite a few feature films around about teenage or very young women falling in love or at least experiencing queer desire for the first time, more than there were though far fewer than ones about young men. Some have been excellent – see, for example Pariah, But I’m a Cheerleader, or Portrait of a Lady on Fire. But some of the less polished examples have a worthy earnestness baked in, as if they’re on a didactic mission and straining to offer positive role models. To Nowhere, on the other hand, feels deeply…

This feisty, uplifting Brit pic arrives in UK cinemas just weeks after the announcement of the death of Tina Turner – an indomitable figure who serves as an inspirational role model for at least one of the film’s key characters. Indeed, there’s more than a hint of the great soul singer’s spirit in the very likable and slyly subversive feature debut from writer-director Dionne Edwards. Like Turner, Pretty Red Dress is both playful and defiant, swept along on a tide of toe-tapping tunes that tug at the heartstrings, yet…

Image via Disney The Little Mermaid has been drawing the attention of the world for months now; whether it was in anticipation for Halle Bailey‘s performance (in which she spectacularly proved her haters wrong), the new and reimagined musical numbers and accompanying visuals, or simply the wave of nostalgia that long-time Disney fans can now begin to share with younger generations, there was a lot to look forward to, and for the most part, The Little Mermaid delivered. But with the original film clocking in at…