3 h. ago Netflix to open Squid Game and Wednesday immersive attractions in the US

Wednesday, Stranger Things and Love Is Blind are among the themed experiences at Netflix House

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5 h. ago 'I thought I'd found love with stranger on plane but then she dropped bombshell'

A man had a plane ride to remember when he got talking to the woman next to him and thought he'd found the girl of his dreams - but one small detail changed everything

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1 week ago Royel Otis: Hickey review – Australian duo come off as problematic exes on their second album

Lead single ‘Moody’ caused controversy over lyrics that played into tired stereotypes of the nagging girlfriend – other tracks riff on themes of dark distrust

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1 week ago Royel Otis review, Hickey – Australian duo come off as problematic exes on their second album

Lead single ‘Moody’ caused controversy over lyrics that played into tired stereotypes of the nagging girlfriend – other tracks riff on themes of dark distrust

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1 week ago Bleak Squad: Strange Love review – Australia’s newest supergroup sound like they’ve been together for years

Four music greats – Mick Harvey, Mick Turner, Adalita and Marty Brown – have created a genuine collaboration that leaves room for all their talentsGet our weekend culture and lifestyle emailOccasionally the musical universe offers unexpected gifts that we might never have thought to ask for and had no right to expect. Strange Love, the debut album by new Melbourne supergroup Bleak Squad, is one such gift. The names who brought the band together speak for themselves: Adalita (Magic Dirt), Mick Harvey (the Bad Seeds, the Birthday Party), Mick Turner (Dirty Three) and Marty Brown (Art of Fighting, SodaStream, Claire Bowditch), who brought the band together.Brown’s intuition that such a combination would go well together has proven inspired. Such things can easily end up sounding better on paper than in practice. Instead, Bleak Squad sound pretty much exactly as you’d expect, given their name and collective histories: the hour is late, the lights are low, the writing is sharp, the arran...

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1 week ago Coldplay's Chris Martin says his hero is Homer Simpson and not because he's all yellow

Coldplay's frontman Chris Martin has opened up about his unexpected cartoon hero, Homer Simpson, and explained his unexpected love comes from one strange reason

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3 w. ago ‘I was like a tornado going through men’s lives’: meet the people who can’t stop getting married

From the divorce lawyer on wedding eight to the 85-year-old in love with bride five – the hopeless romantics who keep saying ‘I do’Forty-two per cent of the married couples you know are destined to divorce, according to the latest UK statistics, but we still buy into the idea that a wedding is a happy ending. The story we like to tell, culturally, about romantic love is straightforward: that there is just one person out there for everyone, and that, once you have found that person, you will be happy every day until one of you is dead. So what about people who rack up multiple marriages? The famous stories tend to have a whiff of madness and glamour about them. There is Elizabeth Taylor, who was married eight times (twice to Richard Burton). The other, bloodier, example that springs to mind is Henry VIII.To be married and divorced multiple times requires a strange mixture of romanticism and practicality about love. Saying “until death do u...

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last month This Lions tour was an SOS and they desperately need a revamp

WORLD OF RUGBY: Where do the Lions go from here? Home, in the first instance, to disperse and recharge, but then the hierarchy must review this Australia tour in forensic detail.

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