mourning

There are many crazy stories about Jaz Coleman. There was the time he went missing and resurfaced living a nomadic existence in Western Sahara. He has claimed to have seen a UFO – actually seven orange orbs, one bearing the image of a stick man – in central London. Once, he was so annoyed by a Melody Maker review that he stormed into the magazine’s offices and dumped rotting liver and maggots over the reception desk. Today, though, video-calling from Argentina, he is reflective and emotional.“I’m still in terrible shock,”…

Whenever you find yourself thinking you’ve nothing to wear, and that to have some kind of uniform would be quite nice, it may be helpful to consider the plight of the Victorian widow. She had a uniform: it was black. But there, the simplicity ended. Mourning garb was traditionally made of crepe, a fabric whose chief virtue (like that of bombazine and parramatta, both later popular for the same purpose) was that it was non-reflective, any hint of shininess being thought far too cheerful for the grieving. It was highly…

Having fun is big business. Without the factories and mills that first drew hundreds of thousands to towns and cities, today’s modern metropolis is expected to sustain itself and its residents through the manufacturing of leisure and the commodification of a good time. The zeitgeist phrasing is telling: the night-time is now its own economy – one worth an estimated £66bn in the UK. Cities are no longer expected to sleep – sleep is wasted consumption time, after all. But from nightclubs to pubs and restaurants, the story…

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain A new paper co-written by Desmond Upton Patton, a professor at Penn's School of Social Policy & Practice (SP2) and Penn's Annenberg School for Communication, explores the role of images in the online grieving practices of gang-affiliated Black youth. The study is believed to be the first of its kind and aims to…

Posted in: Comics, Marvel Comics, Preview | Tagged: moon knightCheck out our preview of Vengeance of the Moon Knight #1, where the Midnight Mission copes with chaos in the wake of another senseless comic book relaunch.Published Sun, 31 Dec 2023 07:26:06 -0600 by Jude Terror | Article Summary Marvel's Vengeance of the Moon Knight #1 drops this Wednesday, packed with mourning and mayhem. The Midnight Mission grapples with change and a new enemy adorned in hauntingly familiar attire. Jed MacKay &…

On a warm, blustery December afternoon outside the De Laurentis olive oil-producing co-op in the white hilltop town of Ostuni, Puglia, Luigi D'Amico holds out his palm, revealing an olive picked earlier in the day.Instead of resembling the plump, gleaming green and black fruit overflowing in bins around him, this one is half-consumed, dry and shrunken."That's what the olive fly does," he explained. "It lays its larvae, which then devours the olive."D'Amico lists off other pests and fungi — olive leprosy, peacock's eye…

I n sleepy, suburban Saugus, Massachusetts, sisters Robyn D’Apolito and Nicole MacTaggart pack up the car, getting ready to meet about 30 members of their friends and family at Castle Rock Park in Marblehead. It’s July 2022, high season for the New England shore, but this isn’t a typical trip to the beach. The sisters are on their way to scatter the ashes of their mother, Adele Mazzone, at her favorite place: where she used to sit with her toes in the sand, eating ice cream, while her kids scrambled over stony…

As It Happens6:45Behold Turkules, the turkey who charmed and terrorized a New Jersey town for monthsFor the longest time, it seemed as though nothing could stop Turkules the turkey.The wild fowl roamed the streets of West Orange, N.J., for months, gaining both fame and notoriety as it stopped traffic, pecked tires, chased residents and evaded state officials' many attempts to capture him.When he was hit by a car, he walked away "unscathed," according to a statement by the West Orange Township. When an officer shot him…

In 1995, Foo Fighters released their eponymous debut album, recorded by Dave Grohl alone the previous year in the months after Kurt Cobain’s suicide. The contemporary press was revealing: the album was not greeted with the universal warmth one might have expected. Interviewers and critics seemed to be suspicious and combative. There was a consensus that the album was selling well due to residual affection for Nirvana, or as a kind of mass sympathy vote; that either way, it was unlikely to be a project with legs. One…

Boosie Badazz is cancer free.The Baton Rouge rapper hopped on Instagram on Tuesday to celebrate the news, while also revealing that he recently found out that his “doctor/surgeon” passed away last year unbeknownst to Boosie.“Stayed up all night praying for these results,” Boosie wrote. “CANCER FREE! GOD GREAT, BUT HE YOUR FAITH ALL THE TIME!” “ was ready to see my cancer doctor/surgeon today, but I was told he passed last year. Thank , Dr. Wood, for always making me laugh when I was down. were the best.”Boosie…