4 h. ago London residents receive ‘feedback submission’ forms in the mail

London residents receive ‘feedback submission’ forms in the mail  FOX 56 News

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5 h. ago Poker Face season two review – Natasha Lyonne’s fun detective show is painfully close to being a classic

Our crime-solving heroine is utterly charming, it’s stuffed with A-list stars and some episodes are just great. If only the cases were a bit more cleverThis tribute to case-of-the week crime dramas is so nearly a brilliant TV show. Starring Natasha Lyonne (Orange Is the New Black, Russian Doll) as Charlie Cale, a woman with a foolproof ability to tell truth from falsehood, the series follows in the footsteps of classic story-of-the-week crime dramas; each episode features a tranche of excellent guest stars and a freshly covered-up misdeed for our thoroughly charming citizen-detective to uncover. With her gravelly-chipmunk New York tones – or “voice like a rusty clarinet”, as one character has it – Lyonne ensures Cale is an idiosyncratically charismatic protagonist you can really get behind. She’s cool: her catchphrase is “bullshit” and her aesthetic is 1970s-hued indie sleaze; shades, spray-on jeans, biker boots, shrunken T-shirts, wild, matted hair. She’s chaotically good, too: mis...

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6 h. ago The Ordinary’s relaunched its divisive SPF, so I put it to the test

The $19 formula is a huge improvement on its predecessor

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6 h. ago Chelsea CHAOS as visiting Djurgarden fans jump barrier forcing riot police to intervene

More than a thousand Djurgarden fans were able to successfully gather in home areas of Stamford Bridge for their COnference League semi-final against Chelsea despite a significant police presence

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6 h. ago Man United receive new Europa League penalty verdict after Athletic Bilbao VAR review

Manchester United thought they may have a chance to make it 4-0 on aggregate only for VAR to decide that play should continue against Athletic Bilbao

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7 h. ago Jennifer Aniston's alleged stalker appears in court shirtless and a judge orders a mental evaluation

A judge has ordered a man who authorities say crashed his car through the front gate of Jennifer Aniston’s home to face a competency review

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8 h. ago Djo review – Joe Keery mixes genres in an endearing, if uneven, Brooklyn set

Brooklyn Steel, New YorkStranger Things actor’s musical project has now gone from bedroom to the big stage and, while not all of it works, there’s energy to spareBy now, Djo is not a secret. The psychedelic electro-pop project led by Joe Keery, once an IYKYK solo bedroom-production artist, has reached the mainstream, making the festival circuit at Laneway, Coachella and Glastonbury. And Keery, an actor best known for playing foppish, helplessly winsome Steve Harrington on Stranger Things, has stepped out from the shadows of a persona initially meant to disguise his famous name; gone are the Scooby-Doo Shaggy-style wigs and costumes from Djo’s early performances, meant to dissociate any notion of the Upside Down from Keery’s longstanding interest in making music.It worked, though in a manner befitting a preternaturally charming and thoughtful celebrity who seemingly courts good fortune: by accident. Djo, pronounced like his first name, blew up not because he was “the guy from Strange...

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8 h. ago The number of people who needed hospital treatment after feeding animals at Welsh farm has been revealed

More cases of people infected with cyptosporidium have been confirmed and 16 people have been hospitalised after an outbreak linked to a Welsh farm

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9 h. ago The EU will hold talks later this month on reviewing ties with Israel as concern mounts over Gaza

The European Union's top diplomat says that foreign ministers will hold formal talks on May 20 on a demand to review an EU pact governing trade ties with Israel over its conduct of the war in Gaza

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10 h. ago Review: Hamlet Hail to the Thief is unmissable drama at Aviva Studios

The world premiere production fuses Shakespeare with the music of Radiohead - and the results are achingly cool, writes Dianne Bourne

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10 h. ago ‘An optimal state of consciousness’: is flow the secret to happiness?

It can happen when doing ‘just about anything’ – experts share how to get ‘in the zone’, and what can pull you outWhat is the secret to happiness? In a 2004 Ted Talk, psychologist Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi boldly claimed to have the answer: flow.Flow is the experience of being completely absorbed in a particular task. Sometimes we call it being “in the zone”. Csikszentmihalyi described it in his Ted Talk as an “effortless, spontaneous feeling” and an “ecstatic state”.An intense focus that “leads to a sense of ecstasy”Knowing exactly what you want from one moment to the nextGetting immediate feedback on what you are doingKnowing your goal is achievable, even if it is difficultLosing track of timeForgetting yourself – you are so focused on your task that any self-consciousness disappearsFeeling part of something bigger than yourself Continue reading...

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10 h. ago Open the front door and you'll find a historic sweet shop still with its old weighing scales within

So much to love at this tasty renovation property from the potential low price to the bonus former sweet shop and period features

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11 h. ago The National Gallery rehang review: 'what a 200th birthday treat this is'

With a complete architectural overhaul of the Sainsbury and a rehang of its collection., The National is truly making its wonders shine

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11 h. ago The Wedding Banquet is a warmer, sillier take on Ang Lee’s Nineties romcom

Lily Gladstone, Bowen Yang and Star Wars actor Kelly Marie Tran lead this spirited remake that plays a bit more conventionally than its predecessor – but is also happy to relax into the warm embrace of its cast

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11 h. ago The Surfer allows Nicolas Cage to go wild – then leaves him hanging

The actor plays a desperate businessman left stranded in the sweltering Australian heat in this manic thriller, but the film’s themes struggle to align with his go-for-broke performance

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12 h. ago Hawksmoor boss reveals diners mistakenly served £4,500 bottle of wine instead of £250 plonk thought it was SO tasty they asked for another

The two men had been enjoying a meal at the upmarket Hawksmoor steak restaurant in Manchester in 2019 when a 'mortified' staff member realised her error.

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12 h. ago Whoop 5.0 promises to help you age backwards — so I put it to the test

Whoop’s new launch costs $199, but is it worth the investment?

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12 h. ago The Vaster Wilds by Lauren Groff audiobook review – a fugitive’s fight for survival

Actor January LaVoy narrates the visceral story of a girl on the run in a winter wilderness, in early 17th-century VirginiaAt the start of The Vaster Wilds, we meet a servant girl, “bony and childish small”, on the run from a disease-ridden English settlement in Jamestown, Virginia. The reason for her flight is not immediately disclosed, though her fingernails are tellingly bloody. Armed with a knife, a thick cloak stolen from her mistress and leather boots taken from a dead child, she heads out into the winter wilderness. There, in the face of ice storms, potentially hostile Powhatan villages and a soldier charged with task of capturing her “living or dead”, she must be fearless and resourceful to stay alive.Lauren Groff’s vivid and visceral story of survival – think Man vs Wild meets The Revenant – is set in the early 17th century when smallpox and starvation pose the greatest threat to life. Our protagonist, formerly the child of a prostitute living in a London poorhouse, was giv...

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12 h. ago Champions League review: a journeyman hero, a crucial miss and a stone

PSG and Inter will play for the crown at the end of the month but there were plenty of twists and turns before the finalists were decidedInter Continue reading...

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12 h. ago Virtual reality experience brings immersive Antarctic tour exploration to Scotland

The experience lets visitors explore historic Antarctic huts, meet penguins, ride a hydrogen balloon, feed huskies, and hear stories of survival and discovery

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