
Mark Brown
North of England Correspondent at The Guardian
North of England correspondent, The Guardian. Based in north east England. Get in touch - [email protected]
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2 weeks ago |
theguardian.com | Mark Brown
Marina Abramović is an art world superstar well known for challenging visitors’ awkwardness at sex and nudity by, for example, asking them to squeeze through a doorway between a naked couple. This year, she will take it to a new level in what she is calling the most ambitious work of her long career – an immersive erotic epic featuring performers re-enacting ancient and unashamedly sexual rituals. Manchester will be the venue for the world premiere of Abramović’s Balkan Erotic Epic.
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2 weeks ago |
yahoo.com | Philip Oltermann |Mark Brown
Kevin Spacey is to accept a lifetime achievement award in Cannes next week, in what may constitute one of the most high-profile “uncancellings” of the #MeToo era. On Tuesday, the Oscar-winning actor is due to receive an award for excellence in film and television at the Better World Fund’s 10th anniversary gala dinner at the Carlton Hotel in Cannes.
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3 weeks ago |
theguardian.com | Mark Brown
“The whole thing is chaos,” said the conductor Charles Hazlewood, before a weekend art project with the artist Jeremy Deller that will feature Handel on Ilkley Moor at sunrise, disco from a tractor, opera blasted out of modified car sound systems and much more. “But it will be organised chaos,” added Hazlewood. “An acceptance of chaos … which is what it’s like to live in a city, isn’t it?
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3 weeks ago |
theguardian.com | Mark Brown
A man operating a cannabis drugs lab which caused a devastating explosion in a terraced street has been jailed for 14 years for the deaths of two people, including a seven-year-old boy. The boy, Archie York, was asleep in the flat above the drugs lab being run by Reece Galbraith, 33, when the blast happened in the Benwell area of Newcastle in the early hours of 16 October 2024.
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3 weeks ago |
theguardian.com | Mark Brown
People still lay flowers at the granite memorial stone close to the place in Birkenhead where Diane Sindall met her horrific, shocking death. It reads: “Murdered 2.8.1986 because she was a woman. In memory of all our sisters who have been raped and murdered. We will never let it be forgotten.”On Merseyside, the killing has a legacy that is still felt today. For nearly four decades, many assumed justice had been served and the right man had been convicted.
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