Guts

Towards the end of a chapter on a Bertrand Tavernier movie set just after the first world war, David Thomson writes: “I doubt there is any such thing as an anti-war film.” In its context it seems hardly more than a passing observation, but in fact the thought is fundamental to Thomson’s project. For what the eminent British film critic is writing about, at some length and in compelling and often limpidly beautiful prose, is war itself and our ambiguous relation to it, or at least to its representation in moving images –…

Olivia Rodrigo imagines punk as it seemed when you were a kid: loud, angry, melodic, giddily girly, the kind of music that Lindsay Lohan played in Freaky Friday and which Josie and the Pussycats used to wake the world up from a state of bubblegum-pop-induced hypnosis. Rodrigo’s firecracker second album, Guts, draws from beloved pop-rock both classic and contemporary – Liz Phair, Courtney Barnett, Weezer – but it feels most indebted to this Hollywood version of punk, which somehow seemed snarlier and snarkier than anything…

The Olivia Rodrigo, who just spilled her most embarrassing, jealous, and regretfully heartbreaking secrets in the NPR Tiny Desk office, feels lightyears away from the version of herself who stripped down songs from Sour at the DMV in 2021. The singer and songwriter‘s appearance marks her first proper performance on the concert series without any pandemic restrictions. Rodrigo selected four songs from her recently released sophomore studio album Guts, admitting: “It’s much cooler to be here. I was saying earlier, I’ve…

After a cold open poking fun at Congress’ bonkers antisemitism hearing and Adam Driver delivering a piano-driven serenade during his monologue that took shots at Tesla Cybertruck buyers, Saturday Night Live musical guest Olivia Rodrigo flexed her own piano (and vocal) skills with a twinkling-the-ivories rendition of her hit single “vampire.” The Rolling Stone cover star exhibited her delicate-yet-powerful vocals during the slow-burning piano-serenade version of the tune: “I used to think I was smart/But…

Morrissey has written a vociferous tribute to the late Sinéad O’Connor, decrying the media and music industry for a lack of support for the singer.Praising her “proud vulnerability”, he writes on his website: “There is a certain music industry hatred for singers who don’t ‘fit in’ (this I know only too well), and they are never praised until death – when, finally, they can’t answer back You praise her now ONLY because it is too late. You hadn’t the guts to support her when she was alive and she was looking for you.“The…

Ever since neutron stars were discovered, researchers have been using their unusual properties to probe our universe. The superdense remnants of stellar explosions, neutron stars pack a mass greater than the Sun’s into a ball about as wide as San Francisco. A single cup of this star matter would weigh about as much as Mount Everest. These odd celestial bodies could alert us to distant disturbances in the fabric of spacetime, teach us about the formation of elements, and unlock the secrets of how gravity and particle…

If you got déjà vu today, it’s probably because Olivia Rodrigo is preparing to release another album.The pop musician on Monday revealed the title and release date of her highly anticipated sophomore album, which is scheduled to arrive less than three years after her debut record dominated the charts and catapulted her to super-stardom. Rodrigo’s second LP, “Guts,” comes out Sept. 8.“For me, this album is about growing pains and trying to figure out who I am at this point in my life,” the 20-year-old singer-songwriter…

Moïra Fowley is the well-regarded author of three Young Adult novels, best known of which is The Accident Season. Eyes Guts Throat Bones is her first venture into stories for adults, which came about when she abandoned writing a fourth YA novel during the pandemic to bring, in her own words, something “bloody and beautiful” screaming into the world in a “horror-adjacent” mode.The first story, What Would You Give for a Treat Like Me, is a strong opener: a vivid, neatly executed post-apocalyptic road story with fairytale…

A Los Angeles County Superior Court judge on Tuesday threw out much of Marilyn Manson‘s defamation case against Evan Rachel Wood, who has accused him of abuse.The court has granted in part Wood’s motion to strike portions of Manson’s case, according to documents reviewed by The Times. The shock-rock musician — whose real name is Brian Warner — filed a defamation lawsuit against the “Westworld” actor in March 2022 after she publicly accused him of “horrifically” abusing her for years.This week, the court rejected…

By University of Copenhagen - The Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences May 5, 2023Using DNA technology and advanced bioinformatics analyses, the researchers identified distinct and marked changes in composition and function of the intestines’ trillions of bacteria and viruses in cases with anorexia nervosa. Credit: Søren Vestergaard/University of CopenhagenContrary to common belief, anorexia nervosa is not just a desire to be skinny. Rather, it is a complicated mental illness that alters the brain’s control over hunger…