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How La Haine predicted streetwear fashion

A lesson in antihero fashion, the films multiple styles are more resonant today than ever before. Shot in black and white, La Haine, Mathieu Kassovitzs 1995 film, follows the listless routine of three friends over a 19-hour period. They are Hubert, a black boxer with a strong moral code, Sad, the naive son of Algerians,

Leonard Cohen: You Want It Darker review killer couplets over bare bones

The story goes that it was Leonard Cohens son Adam who pressed his father for a back-to-basics album, one where the most magnificent mutter in rock could operate unhindered by Cohen Srs taste for flamenco guitar and synths. We may have something as banal as pester power to thank, then, for this exquisite 14th album

Queen Elizabeth IIs final resting place marked with new ledger stone | Queen Elizabeth II

Names of late British monarch and her husband Philip added to those of her parents in King George VI Memorial chapel Queen Elizabeth IIs final resting place is marked with a new ledger stone in the King George VI Memorial chapel, Buckingham Palace has said. The stone slab bears the name of the late Queen,

Review: Abandonment

Kate Atkinson has won praise and prizes, including the Whitbread, for her fiction. And her first full-length piece for the stage is a three-hour affair that bears all the hallmarks of the novelist's play: it is packed with themes, issues and criss-crossing narrative strands but, for all its bulging unwieldiness, it makes you rather hope

US Catholic cleric backed out of $1m settlement with sexual abuse victim | New Orleans

Virgil Wheeler, who died in April, verbally agreed deal but made U-turn after learning he would have to register as sex offender A US Roman Catholic cleric who admitted in criminal court to sexually abusing a child before his ordination backed out of a seven-figure settlement agreement with his victim after learning he would have