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Benteke casts doubt on Villa future
Christian Benteke has cast doubt on his future at Aston Villa by indicating that he would like to leave if a leading club such as Arsenal try to buy him. Villa want the striker to sign a new, improved contract but Benteke has given a press conference on international duty with Belgium before their friendly against...
guardian.co.uk (6 minutes ago)
Lili Balfour: 3 Ways Entrepreneurs Can Fail Smarter
There is no sure fire way to prevent failure, but one can always fail smarter. Entrepreneurs fail smarter by 1) understanding the basic terms of their term sheet, 2) understanding how much capital is needed, and 3) having an exit plan. Termsheets In the exhilaration of securing capital, many first time entrepreneurs...
huffingtonpost.com (10 minutes ago)
Sally Hansell: John Q Explores 'Queer Migration,' Screening Crawford Barton Films at Atlanta...
Let no one accuse the Atlanta Cyclorama of being a stodgy institution. On May 17 and 18 the museum boldly allowed art collective John Q to stage "The Campaign for Atlanta: An Essay on Queer Migration" as an after-hours event. The climax was the screening of early films by gay photographer Crawford Barton, who...
huffingtonpost.com (12 minutes ago)
Steve Mariotti: A Must-Read on the '60s -- Carl Oglesby's Raven in the Storm
Many of the issues of the '60s haunt us until today. The tragedy of Vietnam and the resulting social crisis was at the root of many of our problems of today with drug addiction and incarceration as our troops with exposed to a wide variety of drugs and lost precious years to an unwinnable war. A whole generation of...
huffingtonpost.com (15 minutes ago)
Dallas DA seeks to return Josh Brent to jail
Cowboys defensive tackle Josh Brent, accused of being drunk when his car wrecked in December, killing a teammate, has not complied with terms of his release on bail and should stay in jail until his trial, the Dallas County district attorney’s office said.
star-telegram.com (16 minutes ago)
Business community awaits details on Cuomo’s ‘tax-free’ initiative
Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo’s proposal to create “tax-free” zones to encourage businesses on and near the state’s public colleges and universities is sparking some interest, as well as skepticism, among entrepreneurs, investors and development experts.Although the governor’s proposal still lacks many details as he...
buffalonews.com (17 minutes ago)
Sudoku 2,507 hard
Fill the grid so that every row, every column and every 3x3 box contains the numbers 1 to 9. For a helping hand call our solutions line on 09068 338 228. Calls cost 60p per minute at all times. Service supplied by ATS. Buy the next issue of the Guardian or subscribe to our Digital Edition to see the completed...
guardian.co.uk (1 hour ago)
Kakuro 1,345 medium
Fill the grid so that each run of squares adds up to the total in the box above or to the left. Use only numbers 1-9, and never use a number more than once per run (a number may reoccur in the same row, in a separate run). Buy the Guardian tomorrow or subscribe to our Digital Edition to see the completed...
guardian.co.uk (1 hour ago)
10-20 years for Gary Irving after bid for a break falls flat
Convicted serial rapist Gary Irving of Rockland, who hid out in Maine for 34 years was sentenced on Thursday to two 18-20 state prison terms to be served consecutively
tauntongazette.com (2 hours ago)
Epic – review
That title is inviting the addition of the word "fail", but actually this is perfectly serviceable family animation. Even so, "generic" might have been a better description. Its woodland saga feels cobbled together from a dozen other sources, including FernGully, A Bug's Life, Arthur and the Invisibles, The...
guardian.co.uk (2 hours ago)
The Big Wedding – review
Weddings can often be occasions of trauma, as well as joy, and so it proves with this ensemble comedy. Well – minus the joy, that is. Adapted with tin ear and cack hands from a French farce, Robert De Niro and Diane Keaton star as divorced parents of adoptive son Ben Barnes. When he gets engaged to Amanda Seyfried...
guardian.co.uk (2 hours ago)
British fraud suspect found hanged in French jail
A Briton arrested on suspicion of organised fraud has been found hanged in a French jail. John Steele, 38, was found by prison guards hanging in his cell on Tuesday, four days after he was remanded in custody. Steele, who had lived near Paris for some years, was believed to be behind a scheme which took more than £1...
guardian.co.uk (2 hours ago)
IRS replaces Lois Lerner amid controversy over Tea Party targeting
A day after she refused to answer questions at a congressional hearing, Lois Lerner has been replaced as director the Internal Revenue Service division that oversaw agents who targeted Tea Party groups. Danny Werfel, the agency's new acting commissioner, told IRS employees in an email Thursday that he had selected a...
guardian.co.uk (2 hours ago)
Manchester United refinance debt to cut interest costs by £10m a year
Manchester United say they have refinanced more than £192m of high-interest debt, cutting the club's interest costs by around £10m a year. Fresh from winning a 20th league title, United said in a statement that they have secured a new loan from Bank of America with far lower interest rates. United have refinanced...
guardian.co.uk (2 hours ago)
Black Star Riders: All Hell Breaks Loose – review
On the one hand, it's noble of Scott Gorham to rename his Lynott-less version of Thin Lizzy for the purposes of a recording career. On the other, given that the music they make would fit snugly on to a late-70s Lizzy album – right down to singer Ricky Warwick's inflections and asides – it seems a little...
guardian.co.uk (2 hours ago)
Benjamin Britten: Peace and Conflict – review
This drama-documentary, coinciding with Britten's centenary year, is unlikely to bring the composer to new audiences, but music lovers will find it illuminating and evocative, though in all honesty, it has BBC4 written all over it. It views the composer's life and work through the prism of his commitment to...
guardian.co.uk (2 hours ago)
Crystal Fighters: Cave Rave – review
For those of us who thought "crystal"-named bands had all died out a couple of years ago, perhaps having impaled themselves on the sharp edge of a pentagram or tripped over their robes into a symbolic abyss, here are Crystal Fighters, keeping the hallucinogenics-and-beards trope alive. This British/Spanish...
guardian.co.uk (2 hours ago)
Brazos: Saltwater – review
There's a lovely, skittering energy to the second album from Brazos, a restlessness that reflects the band's fitful existence. Four years ago, they were based in Austin, Texas, and released a debut album, Phosphorescent Blues, that took inspiration from poet Adrienne Rich; shortly after its release, frontman Martin...
guardian.co.uk (2 hours ago)
The King of Marvin Gardens – review
American film-maker Bob Rafelson has just celebrated his 80th birthday, and you couldn't give him or yourself a nicer present than to see this marvellous film, now restored and re-released: The King of Marvin Gardens (1972). Like his Five Easy Pieces (1970), it stars Jack Nicholson giving a performance of...
guardian.co.uk (3 hours ago)
Jörg Widmann: Violin Concerto; Antiphon; Insel der Sirenen – review
It's rare that a new work's performance overshadows the piece itself, but Christian Tetzlaff's account of the violin concerto Jörg Widmann composed for him in 2007 is so astonishingly vivid and secure that Widmann's impressive work at least has to share the spotlight with its dedicatee. With its huge expressive...
guardian.co.uk (3 hours ago)
The Pastels: Slow Summits – review
People had very firm opinions on the Pastels in their 1980s heyday. For their (gently) pathologically devoted fans, the Glasgow indie cult heroes were natural heirs to Orange Juice, purveyors of some of the sweetest, most winsome sounds around. For their more vociferous detractors, the mop-topped, charity...
guardian.co.uk (3 hours ago)
Martin Speake Trio: Always a First Time – review
The work of that fine British alto saxophone player Martin Speake is often a distinctive fusion of Lee Konitz's wry and understated lyricism and Ornette Coleman's earthiness and rhythmic bounce. This sax/guitar/drums lineup with guitarist Mike Outram and drummer Jeff Williams suits him admirably – it's open enough...
guardian.co.uk (3 hours ago)
Loadstar: Future Perfect – review
A new wave of house and garage acts may be changing the face of the UK pop landscape, but Bristolian duo Loadstar are proof that dinosaurs still lumber through the rave scene. Drum'n'bass has long become the cockroach of British dance, able to withstand any and all trends to maintain its persistent presence; what...
guardian.co.uk (3 hours ago)
Olthuis: Capricho; Villa-Lobos: Ciranda dos Sete Notas; Gubaidulina: Bassoon Concerto, etc – review
Gustavo Núñez is principal bassoon of the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, and on the evidence of the concertante pieces on this disc, he's a player of jaw-dropping agility and effortlessly suave tone. Most of the works here, though, are pleasantly unremarkable – both the Capricho by his former colleague Kees Olthuis...
guardian.co.uk (3 hours ago)
My Neighbour Totoro – review
An established classic in Japan, this animated family fantasy is a recommended gateway drug to the rich, bright, hand-drawn universe of director Hayao Miyazaki. You could call it a ghost story, though there's barely any story at all – no baddies, no conflicts, nothing scary, little beyond "mild peril". It follows...
guardian.co.uk (3 hours ago)
Grave of the Fireflies – review
If you thought Bambi or Up were as emotional as animation gets, you need to see this Japanese masterpiece. It's a war story as wrenching as any live-action movie, and it has reduced many a viewer to tears – this one included. Based on Akiyuki Nosaka's semi-autobiographical novel, it is focused on a teenager and his...
guardian.co.uk (3 hours ago)
Obama and counter-terrorism: bringing drones in from the cold
Nothing illustrates the continuation, to say nothing of the intensification, of the Bush era "war on terror", more than Barack Obama's use of drones. Drone strikes have grown eightfold under the president who vowed in his Nobel prize acceptance speech that the US must remain a standard bearer in the conduct of war....
guardian.co.uk (3 hours ago)
Robert Schumann: Fantasiestücke; Études Symphoniques; Blumenstück – review
Freddy Kempf crams as much as he can into his version of the Études Symphoniques. Starting with the revised edition that Schumann published in 1852, he restores the two movements from the original 1837 version that the composer subsequently omitted and includes the five "posthumous" variations that only appeared in...
guardian.co.uk (3 hours ago)
Stooshe: London with the Lights On – review
There are plenty of reasons to like Stooshe's debut album, which has arrived six months late after accusations of label "interference". Though the London girl-band aren't the badasses they pretend to be – if they were, they'd have refused to allow the track originally known as Fuck Me to be retitled Love Me – they...
guardian.co.uk (3 hours ago)
Pat Metheny/Tap: John Zorn's Book of Angels Vol 20 – review
Pat Metheny has won plenty of Grammys for his catchy and smoothly song-like fusion music, but he has risked tough challenges, too – withOrnette Coleman, or the late improv guitarist Derek Bailey, or Philip Glass, for instance. This reworking of six pieces from John Zorn's colossal songbooks is performed and...
guardian.co.uk (3 hours ago)
