4 h. ago Listen to Joey, sport is always trying to tell you something, even by the medium of hot dogs | Barney Ronay

As Joey Chestnut, the Ronaldo of speed eating, regains his world hotdog crown, he’s holding up a mirror to our worldThe Big Dog is back. And the Big Dog is hungry. Hungry, above all, for dogs. Joey Chestnut has fulfilled his sporting destiny by reclaiming his world champion crown at the legendary 4 July hotdog eating contest in Coney Island, New York. Chestnut, AKA The Silent Warrior, is basically the Messi of elite eating. Or rather he’s the Ronaldo, relentless in his perfectionism, possessed of an alluring competitive arrogance, and with the GOAT-level numbers to back it up: winner of the Mustard Belt now 17 times and the world record-holder as of 2021, when he ate 76 hotdogs in 10 minutes, a huge uplift on his debut in 2005 when he ate a frankly pathetic 32 hotdogs.Above all, Chestnut had a point to prove. He was banned from competing last year over a controversial sponsor deal with a plant-based hotdog alternative. Losing the title was a kind of Icarus moment. No one is bigger t...

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16 h. ago Photos show revelers and competitors alike savoring a July Fourth hot dog eating contest

Competitive eater Joey “Jaws” Chestnut reclaimed his title Friday at the Nathan’s Famous Fourth of July hot dog eating contest, and defending champion in the women’s division, Miki Sudo of Tampa, Florida, won her 11th title, downing 33 dogs. The annual eat-a-thon has been held outside the original Nathan’s Famous restaurant in Coney Island, Brooklyn, since 1972.

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31 h. ago Joey 'Jaws' Chestnut hopes for a comeback victory in annual Nathan's Famous hot dog eating contest

Nathan’s Famous Fourth of July hot dog eating contest is back, and famed competitive eater Joey “Jaws” Chestnut is hoping for a comeback 17th win

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67 h. ago Party at the Palace will use the sun to power its way through a joyful weekend

Over 7,000 revellers will head to Linlithgow where a new solar setup will supply sound and lighting

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3 d. ago King Charles appears in his element as he joyfully greets guests at Palace of Holyroodhouse garden party alongside Queen Camilla and Princess Anne

The 76-year-old is currently in Scotland for Holyrood Week, where he spends time meeting Scots from all walks of life.

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8 d. ago Gun control crusader and former US Rep. Carolyn McCarthy dead at 81

Gun control crusader and former U.S. Rep. Carolyn McCarthy of New York has died

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1 week ago Secrets and longing surface as Saint Laurent menswear parades at Pinault’s art palace

It-designer Anthony Vaccarello has sent out a Saint Laurent men’s collection that felt both sun-drenched and haunted, set not just in the heart of Paris, but drifting somewhere between the city and the legendary queer enclave of Fire Island in New York

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1 week ago Saint Laurent’s Paris fashion week show takes audience on a holiday to Fire Island

Sunglasses and bright colours dominated a beach-ready collection, as director Anthony Vaccarello namechecked artists who documented LGBTQ+ lifeFire Island, the holiday destination near New York, has been associated with the LGBTQ+ community since the 30s. It has inspired books (Edmund White’s 1973 novel, Forgetting Elena), a 2022 eponymous romcom and now, a fashion show for Saint Laurent.Taking place at Paris fashion week in 30C heat more suited to a vacation, the show notes named the beach spot as a reference for the creative director, Anthony Vaccarello. They placed the show “somewhere between Paris and Fire Island, where escape becomes elegance, and desire becomes a language”. Continue reading...

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1 week ago Inside the 'Disneyland of sex' where there's 'wild amounts' of very public nudity and 'orgies with 200 people'

Just off the coast of New York lies Fire Island - a slim strip of land with a magnetic power pull far beyond its size. 

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2 w. ago Long Island's last duck farm is quacking again after losing its entire flock to the bird flu

Long Island’s last commercial duck farm is rebuilding after a bird flu outbreak forced the destruction of its entire 100,000-bird flock in January

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3 w. ago Six great reads: the trouble with ‘great men’, Fire Island’s hedonistic party palaces and close encounters with Sly Stone

Need something brilliant to read this weekend? Here are six of our favourite pieces from the last seven days Continue reading...

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3 w. ago Man arrested on suspicion of murder of Annie McCarrick released

A search of a house in Clondalkin in west Dublin is to continue over the weekend.

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3 w. ago Man aged in his 60s arrested on suspicion of murder of Annie McCarrick

A house and garden in Clondalkin is to be technically and forensically examined as part of the investigation.

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3 w. ago King Charles has special reunion with old pals as he hosts secret Palace party

King Charles, who is now the armed foreces Commander in Chief, held a special private reception at Buckingham Palace today for his old shipmates who he served with in the Royal Navy

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3 w. ago ‘Made for sex’: the hedonistic party palaces of New York’s Fire Island – and the blond bombshell who made them

It is a ‘queer Xanadu’, a sliver of sand where weekend-long revelling takes place in fabulous modernist beach-houses. As Fire Island gets its mojo back, we celebrate the Speedos-wearing architect who defined its lookPosters advertising a “bear weekend” cling to the utility poles on Fire Island, punctuating the wooden boardwalks that meander through a lush dune landscape of beach grass and pitch pine. It’s not a celebration of grizzlies, by the looks of the flyers, but of large bearded men in small swimming trunks, bobbing in the pools and sprawled on the sundecks of mid-century modernist homes. You might also find them frolicking in the bushes of this idyllic car-free island, a nature reserve of an unusual kind that stretches in a 30-mile sliver of sand off the coast of Long Island in New York.Over the last century, Fire Island Pines, as the central square-mile section of this sandy spit is known, has evolved into something of a queer Xanadu. Now counting about 600 homes, it is a pl...

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4 w. ago New York won't rescind Native American mascot ban, despite Trump's threat of cutting federal funds

New York education officials have refused to rescind the state’s ban on Native American mascots and team names, despite threats from the Trump administration that it risks losing federal funding

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