In this week’s Dispatches from The Secret Library, Dr Oliver Tearle reviews a new treasury of 1,000 Scottish words from Robin A. Crawford A clishmaclaver is a Scottish word meaning ‘the passing on of idle gossip, sometimes in a book’. A collieshangle denotes a row or fight in which two people bark at each other.
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This is Wait, What?, a column that explains the seemingly incomprehensible. One week ago today, Cardi B and Megan Thee Stallion blessed our weary nation with their video for “WAP,” a gleefully filthy sonic and visual ode to their genitalia. It features an infectious hook lifted from Frank Ski’s 1993 Baltimore club track “Whores in
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Photography courtesy of Yard + Parish.Jamaican-Canadian cousins Alesha Bailey and Samantha Newell just celebrated one year in business with the launch of branded merch. By Odessa Paloma Parker Date August 14, 2020 icon-facebook icon-twitter “We’ve always been dreaming together,” says Alesha Bailey about her partnership with Samantha Newell and the creation of their one-year-old e-commerce
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Anthrax‘s Scott Ian is a huge fan of horror movies and comic books — this has never been a secret as they’ve often served as lyrical inspiration across the band’s nearly 40-year career. In an exclusive sneak peak of SYFY’s upcoming edition of the month-long “Metal Crush Mondays,” the thrasher revisited his childhood adoration of
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August 14, 2020, 1:31pm Every year, Longwood University’s John Dos Passos Prize sets out to celebrate one vital but under-appreciated writer. Previous recipients include Colson Whitehead, Tom Wolfe, and Annie Proulx. (Obviously, they were awarded the Dos Passos Prize before they won, say, two Pulitzer Prizes.) This year’s finalists were announced today. “These finalists represent everything
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Australia actor Jason Gann gained fame in OZ for his joint-loving leg-humping canine character, Wilfred … but shot to stardom internationally in 2011 after the show, “Wilfred,” was remade stateside on FX. Jason Gann starred alongside a cool cast of actors on the American version of the show including Fiona Gubelmann as the dog owner
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US networking giant Cisco delivered a slightly downbeat earnings announcement, but saw reasons to be cheerful in the mid-term future. Revenue was down 9% year-on-year for the quarter and down 5% for the full year. Furthermore its guidance was for another 10% revenue decline in the current quarter, which was apparently below investor expectations, hence
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When it comes to creativity, ilo ilo are no slouches. Their creative digital maze to kick off the marketing around their EP is something I haven’t seen before. Now the duo have released the second single from their upcoming EP and you can feel the creative juices flowing. “Golden” is dripping with passion and juicy
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Image courtesy of Geoff McFetridge/VistaprintIncluding Canadian illustrator Geoff McFetridge. By Pahull Bains Date August 13, 2020 icon-facebook icon-twitter E-commerce company Vistaprint has just launched its first artist capsule collection of face masks, created in an effort to normalize mask-wearing while still allowing room for creative expression. “I have always been comfortable wearing a mask,” says
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