Written by Sarah Stovell — In a remote part of the Lake District stands a property that serves as a home to a trio of troubled young women. The latest residents are Hope, Annie and Lara, and all three girls have troubled pasts which have affected them deeply. It’s Christmas Eve as this story begins,
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Nigerian highlife musician Victor Olaiya has died, the Nigerian newspaper Punch reports. He passed on February 12 in Lagos, Nigeria. He was 89. Olaiya, aka Dr. Victor Abimbola Olaiya OON, was a trumpeter known as “The Evil Genius of Highlife,” a Ghanian genre that fuses traditional Akan melodies with Western instruments. He first broke out
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Rian Johnson’s Lionsgate/MRC whodunit Knives Out has sailed past the $300M mark worldwide. It’s the latest milestone for the box office anomaly that is becoming the second-highest-grossing original movie of 2019 behind Us and also whipping Quentin Tarantino’s Once Upon a Time in Hollywood’s $142.4M stateside. More amazing: This Thanksgiving release is still in the domestic
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An unidentified woman claimed the ‘gay community run the police force’ before hurling homophobic slurs and being escorted by Australian Federal Police officers. (Screen captures via YouTube) A woman was caught on camera launching into a homophobic tirade, claiming that the “gay community run the police” before being escorted off a delayed tram. Commuters boarding
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Kaitlin Bennett (L), a conservative pundit popular known as ‘the Kent State gun girl’, called a student (R) ‘obviously gay’ in Ohio, US. (Screen capture via Twitter) Far-right gun activist Kaitlin Bennett has been embroiled in controversy after appearing to call a college student “obviously gay” in a viral video. Josh, 19, posted the exchange
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I don’t often write posts covering one book. Book Riot isn’t a review site: we’re interested in your reading life and adjacent subjects, not on putting value judgments on whatever it is sparks joy when it enters your eyeballs (provided whatever that is doesn’t hurt anyone else). Every so often, however, a very special book—an
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Princess Diana, June 1994 Princess Diana’s off the shoulder, form fitting silk little black dress has been labeled “the revenge dress” as she wore it the same night Prince Charles aired his tell-all documentary about the couple’s marriage and subsequent divorce. Although Diana didn’t make a statement that night, her LBD spoke volumes.
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Crime Fiction Lover recommending that you watch a programme from the Star Trek franchise is probably the last thing you’d expect, but what is life without surprises? As we write this article, Star Trek: Picard is only three episodes in, with new ones available to stream on Fridays via Amazon Prime, and from the very
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A gay refugee is suing the Trump administration for sending him to Guatemala after he tried to claim asylum in the United States. The United States has a “safe third country” agreement with Guatemala, meaning they can send refugees to the Central American country instead. The lawsuit was filed by the American Civil Liberties Union
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