5 h. ago House Party review – home truths about gentrification in east London

House Party review – home truths about gentrification in east London  The Guardian

Society

12 h. ago How Soho House became the chicest venue for high society hedonism! Private club was Kate Moss' party spot of choice, hosted Harry and Meghan's first date and even turned away Kim Kardashian

It began as a networking destination for 'creatives' in London, but Soho House quickly became a favorite hangout for celebrities such as Liam Gallagher and model Kate Moss.

Society

18 h. ago Diana Vickers: I was invited to a party at Leonardo DiCaprio's house what I caught the Hollywood A

Diana described the Oscar-winning actor as a classic example of a 'man in Hollywood with so much fame and power, who doesn't want to grow up.'

Society

3 d. ago Teacher suspended 'after giving kids alcohol' at party that ended in shooting

Misty Perez, a teacher at Mireles Elementary school, in Corpus Christi, Texas, has been accused, along with her husband, of giving out alcohol to children at a house party where there was a shooting

Society

7 d. ago Pregnant teen maniac plunged knife into neck of boy she barely knew at party

Conner Cowper was just 18 when he was murdered in cold blood during a house party in Holytown, Lanarkshire, by teenage killer Jolene Doherty who stabbed him without warning

Politics

7 d. ago Some Democrats want to use gerrymandering. That’s a bad idea | Carlo Invernizzi

When a house is on fire, more fire won’t helpWhen Texas Republicans unveiled yet another contorted congressional map last week – one that would all but erase Austin’s Latino-led seat and increase the Republican party’s federal House tally by up to five seats in total – the outcry from Democrats was immediate and justified. But beyond the Democratic state legislators’ brave effort to stymie the proposal by boycotting the vote, a different refrain has also been heard by leading Democrats in other states: if they do it, why can’t we?Governor Gavin Newsom of California has vowed to “fight fire with fire”, advancing a proposal that would redraw California’s own congressional map to offset Republican gains in Texas. New York’s Kathy Hochul has also embraced the prospect of aggressive gerrymandering in Democratic-controlled states, sidestepping the independent commissions that Democrats themselves had once championed and successfully implemented in both California and New York. Continue re...

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7 d. ago Unmoored review – Scandi thriller delves into hidden truths of a toxic marriage

Atmospheric but unresolved drama pits a seedy academic against his ill-used wife, uneasily staying by him as he faces a rape chargeExpectations are raised high, but not satisfyingly met, in this initially intriguing and certainly atmospheric Scandi thriller that ranges from Sweden to Poland and Exmoor in England; it teases hints of Gone Girl and Patricia Highsmith. Screenwriter-producer Michèle Marshall has adapted 2014 novel The Living and the Dead in Winsford by veteran Swedish crime writer Håkan Nesser, and Caroline Ingvarsson makes her feature directing debut.The scene is the stylish home of a Swedish power couple. Maria (Mirja Turestedt) is the presenter of an popular TV talkshow, and she is married to the older Magnus (Thomas W Gabrielsson), a star academic with a drinking problem and a seedy reputation for infidelity. Maria is a former student of Magnus and has, in fact, surpassed him intellectually, now faintly despising herself for her middlebrow job as well as for editing ...

Events

7 d. ago Women who kill: Teen maniac plunged knife into neck of boy she barely knew at party

Jolene Doherty, high on a cocktail of drink and drugs, killed Conner Cowper at a house party in 2018.

Events

1 week ago Man burned alive at horror house party fears he will "never hold son again" after injury hell

David Owen, 36, suffered horrific burns to 15% of his body after he was "doused in lighter fluid and set on fire" at a flat in Perth on July 3.

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