‘I just shut down for many years’ … Evans. Photograph: Katherine Anne Rose/The GuardianKrystal Evans was scarred, mentally and physically, by the fire. She blocked out the memories – until she decided to write about them
by Emine SanerIn previous, shorter standup shows, Krystal Evans tried to talk about her childhood experiences, but to say it didn’t work is an understatement. “Audiences just freak out,” she says with a laugh. “You can’t throw in a fucked-up joke at a 20-minute spot on a Saturday night, with a bunch of hen nights in.
MetalWith videos that are part thirst trap, part protest, gen Z is changing the image of the nu metal fan
At first listen, a song with violent and sexual imagery seems like an unlikely anthem for women who dressed up to see the Barbie movie. But many on TikTok are claiming Custer, by the nu metal band Slipknot, as a feminist anthem.
In TikTok videos, “girly pop” creators who celebrate dressing up, doing their makeup, and enjoying the fluffiness of girlhood are twerking along to the loud and aggressive metal track.
OpinionBeauty This article is more than 1 year oldI’m the perfect target for buccal fat removal – this is how I’ve resisted itThis article is more than 1 year oldMoya Lothian-McLeanUnsure that self-esteem and the pursuit of an ever-changing beauty ideal can co-exist, I’ve chosen to leave my cheeks as they are
A fresh source of insecurity to carry into the new year: buccal fat. The end of 2022, rumours circulated that the actor Lea Michele had undergone a cosmetic procedure designed to chisel the cheeks.
Higher educationObituaryIsrael ShahakBelsen survivor who attacked Israel's treatment of PalestiniansIsrael Shahak, who has died aged 68 from complications caused by diabetes, was for 25 years a highly popular professor of organic chemistry at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. But during the same period, Shahak, an old-fashioned liberal, was also chairman of the Israeli League for Human and Civil Rights. As such he was accused of being an "Israel hater", was spat at in the streets, and received constant death threats.
Alabama This article is more than 5 months oldMontgomery riverboat co-captain says he was hanging on ‘for dear life’ in brawlThis article is more than 5 months oldDamien Pickett, who is Black, describes being attacked by white boaters after attempting to move their pontoon boat
An Alabama boat co-captain was hanging on “for dear life” as men punched and tackled him on the riverfront of the state’s capital city, he told police after video of the brawl circulated widely online.
FictionReviewTom Holland on an alternative portrayal of the life of ChristOver the millennia, the Jewishness of Jesus has been an embarrassment to Jews as well as to Christians. In antiquity, the response of rabbis to the increasingly gentile character of the church was an icy show of silence. When they could bring themselves to mention Jesus at all, it was to cast him as a failed student who, out of pique, had fallen to worshipping a brick, and then been condemned to hell, there to be boiled in excrement.
Global developmentTwo and a half months after Barbuda was battered by 185mph winds, the island remains ruined and largely uninhabitated. Now locals are questioning if people will ever return
Walking the streets of the small Caribbean island of Barbuda on a Friday afternoon, you are likely to see more goats than humans.
Dogs, cats and horses, all of which roam freely about the island now that fences are down, also seem to outnumber people.
Alabama This article is more than 11 months oldUS airport worker warned before being sucked into jet engineThis article is more than 11 months oldAlabama crew had ‘safety huddle’ about how to move around the plane and employee who was killed received warning to stay back
A worker at an airport in Alabama who died after being sucked into a jet engine this past New Year’s Eve had been warned repeatedly about the dangers of going near it, federal investigators revealed this week.
World news This article is more than 1 year oldBritish-Russian man to fight charge of illegally flying drone in NorwayThis article is more than 1 year oldLawyer says Andrey Yakunin, son of an alleged ally of Putin, was ‘filming while mountaineering, glacier walking and sailing’
The British-Russian son of a longtime ally of Vladimir Putin is to fight charges of flying a drone illegally in Norway, in contravention of laws introduced in response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
Britt Ekland … ‘If you want publicity, you’ve got to do something to deserve publicity.’ Photograph: Daily Mail/Murray Sanders/Rex/ShutterstockBritt Ekland … ‘If you want publicity, you’ve got to do something to deserve publicity.’ Photograph: Daily Mail/Murray Sanders/Rex/ShutterstockMoviesInterviewBritt Ekland: 'I was put through emotional and psychological warfare'Elle HuntThe Swedish actor on her infamous marriage with Peter Sellers, being stuck in London under lockdown – and why there will be no more Bond girls like her