11 h. ago Why all my single friends refuse to date men over 50: It's not just your moods and Viagra headaches

Ask any divorced mid-life woman dipping her shellac toes back into the dating pool and she will tell you the same thing, writes columnist Amanda Goff.

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18 h. ago Best period pants that won’t cramp your style, tried and tested

Replace more than 100 single-use sanitary products with just one pair of these eco-friendly period pants

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1 week ago ‘LSD? Been there, done that’: the Grateful Dead’s 60 years of drugs, epic noodling and obsessive fans

Forget Swifties. The Grateful Dead have the world’s most devoted following. As he heads for Britain, founder Bobby Weir talks Vegas spectaculars, bootleggers and life after Jerry Garcia‘We didn’t want to be the cops,” says Bobby Weir, guitarist and founder member of the Grateful Dead, laughing as he describes his band’s legendarily lax attitude to people taping their concerts. Bootleggers were given their own area at gigs on the proviso their tapes were traded, not sold – an illustration of the band’s generosity of spirit. “It was an easy decision to make,” Weir says.Decisions like those have ensured that, decades before today’s obsessional Swifties and K-pop stans, the Dead have cultivated one of music’s most passionate fandoms. They are surely the world’s best-documented band. This year, they’re marking their 60th anniversary with a 60-CD box set, just one of many gargantuan packages over the years. Their 2024 Friend of the Devils box set only covered a single month of live music ...

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3 w. ago Vanishing World by Sayaka Murata review – a future without sex

The Convenience Store Woman author imagines the creep of a new worldview, in a novel that highlights the weirdness of normal lifeIn Japanese writer Sayaka Murata’s fiction, characters do perverse things in order to “play the part of the fictitious creature called ‘an ordinary person’”. This description comes from Keiko, the 36-year-old narrator of Convenience Store Woman. Keiko’s conformist family and friends can’t believe she can be happy being single and working a dead-end job at a convenience store. Keiko finds an unexpected way to make it look as though she is normal: she keeps a man in her bathtub, hoping that everyone will simply assume they are a couple. A similar idea appears in Murata’s short story Poochie, from the collection Life Ceremony. A young girl takes a friend to a shed in the mountains to meet her pet; the friend is surprised to discover that the pet is a middle-aged man. Murata is interested in the lengths humans will go to in order to domesticate ...

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3 w. ago Oliver Glasner refuses to ‘destroy’ mood by dancing after Palace reach cup final

Ismaila Sarr recorded a second-half brace after Eberechi Eze opened the scoring.

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3 w. ago Sophie Turner 'tells friends she is single' following split speculation with Peregrine Pearson after unfollowing each other on social media

The actress, 29, first revealed she was dating Viscount Cowdray's son, 30, in December 2023 months after the breakdown of her four-year marriage to Joe Jonas .

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