21 h. ago Kanye West details 'sexual relationship' with cousin who inspired new song

Rapper Kanye West has taken to X/Twitter to confess that he previously performed a sexual act on his cousin after they "looked at dirty magazines together" when they were kids

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7 d. ago Tell us: have you been inspired to declare your love inspired by a piece of art?

The Guardian’s Saturday magazine is looking for people who declared their love after being inspired by a certain song, book, TV show or filmThe Guardian’s Saturday magazine is looking for people who declared their love after being inspired by a certain song, book, TV show or film. Did you confess your feelings for your best friend after watching When Harry Met Sally? Did you propose after seeing Four Weddings and a Funeral? Did you decide to have a baby with your partner after reading The Argonauts?We’re looking for funny, unexpected love stories – and they don’t have to have happy endings. Maybe you married the wrong person, and now you realise that all that really held you together was a deep and undying love of The Arctic Monkeys? Perhaps Fleabag made you proposition your priest? Continue reading...

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1 week ago One of the best movies of the 2000s is becoming a series... but fans are divided

The action/adventure film, released in 2000, is based on Wang Dulu's book of the same name.

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2 w. ago The Faber/Observer/Comica graphic short story prize 2025 – enter now!

The annual award for aspiring cartoonists – which now boasts its own evening event – offers the chance to be published in the Observer and win £1,000, with past winners landing book and film dealsThis year, we have decided to launch the annual Faber/Observer/Comica graphic short story prize with an event as well as an announcement: an evening that will hopefully be highly enjoyable for anyone who has followed the progress of the award, as well as helpful to those who might be thinking of entering this time around. On 9 April, then, come along to the Bindery in Hatton Garden, London, where a panel will discuss graphic novels in general and our prize in particular – tickets are still available. On stage will be last year’s brilliant judges, Luke Healy and Posy Simmonds, as well as Lesley Imgart, who won the 2024 prize for her charming, funny comic Witch Way?. The event will be chaired by me, and I hope to see you there.But back to the details of 2025. As ever, the winner of the prize ...

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3 w. ago ‘Their voices had been overlooked for so long’: the shocking hunt for the Gilgo Beach killer

The long and often shocking journey to finding the alleged killer of young women in Long Island is brought to a wider audience in a damning new Netflix seriesThe film-maker Liz Garbus was on vacation in July 2023 when she got the call that an arrest had finally been made in the case of the Long Island serial killer. Since 2010, when the bodies of four women were found along an isolated stretch of highway near Gilgo Beach, authorities had looked for a presumed serial killer with little progress and plenty of consternation. Garbus was one of the most prominent chroniclers of the grassroots effort to force authorities into action; her 2020 feature film Lost Girls, an adaptation of Robert Kolker’s book of the same name, depicted the fight by a group of working-class women to figure out what happened to their loved ones – all women who participated in sex work on Craigslist – with or largely without police help.It was the star of that film, Amy Ryan, who alerted Garbus to the arrest of R...

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4 w. ago Tell us: did you end a relationship after being inspired by a certain song, book, TV show or film?

We would like to hear from people who have uprooted their life for a piece of artThe Guardian’s Saturday magazine is looking for people who filed for divorce after being inspired by a certain song, book, TV show or film. Did Taylor Swift make you realise it was time to leave a disappointing partner? Has watching a really great sex scene ever made you realise that the passion in your relationship was dead?We are interested in hearing stories about how a particular piece of culture gave you the strength to end a relationship. Whether you came out as gay after watching Brokeback Mountain, or confronted your cheating spouse after watching The Affair, we would love to hear from you about what it’s like to uproot your life in response to a piece of art. Continue reading...

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