The United States has pitched a curveball to the international community, and it’s one even a steady bat might not be able to hit. Because despite a lukewarm response from even its closest allies, the country has vowed to press ahead with plans for a free-form month of June, in order to make space for an annual Fourth of July weekend….
It has been described as an epic journey of self discovery, from Cape Reinga at the northernmost tip of New Zealand’s North Island, all the way to Bluff and beyond in the far south, but as he finally came to a standstill after a remarkable one week and four days, a panting Noah Nu’kafusi told incredulous reporters, ‘I didn’t feel like…
From Żelimucha to Białousy in northern Poland, to Čačak, Serbia, eastern Sicily, and parts of the Languedoc, after taking more than a year away from his popular cooking show to traverse Europe in search of the finest ingredients, despairing celebrity chef Gaston Ramirez has declared ‘Kill me now, my life is compote’. The traditional dessert, made of pieces of fruit stewed in…
Pokémon Go, the augmented reality game which sends intrepid players outdoors in a live hunt for their favourite critters and creeps, arrived but a few short days ago on iOS and Android in the United States, Australia, and New Zealand. Many of the in-game mechanics are sure to prove unfamiliar to longtime fans of the series. In Pokémon Go, for instance, players don’t catch new Pokémon…
A man who had scarcely considered the words ‘modern’ or ‘art’ before, never mind in the same phrase or sentence, reported a distressing experience at the newly expanded Tate Modern after staring hopelessly for five hours at the Seagram Murals by Mark Rothko. Tate Modern recently unveiled the Switch House, a monolithic extension designed by Herzog & de Meuron and built…
A ‘Walk for Peace’ through the heart of Kenya’s Rift Valley was rudely interrupted in the early hours of this morning by the bellowing voice and pulsing veins of Dick Pound, former president and ongoing associate of the world anti-doping agency WADA. The walk – which aimed to calm a spate of cattle rustling and other bovine-related violence across Kenya’s northern regions…
The principle of parallax has never been more striking than it was yesterday, when duelling observations from space located one man – a rotund forty-nine-year-old Italian tourist who local guides have identified as Pablo Paunchetti, a shoemaker native of Turin – simultaneously at both ends of the Great Wall of China. Parallax is the phenomenon by which a single object appears differently positioned when…
