Andrew Ranken, the drummer and occasional singer and songwriter of the Pogues, died Tuesday, February 10. The band announced the news on Instagram, describing the musician, known as the Clobberer, as a founding member and “heartbeat of the Pogues.” In her own post, Victoria Mary Clarke, the wife of late bandleader Shane MacGowan, said Ranken had
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Alanis Morissette has replaced Neil Young as the headliner for the State Fayre Festival after his recent tour cancellation. Morissette will headline the Saturday night of the inaugural State Fayre 2026, a new festival taking place at Hylands Park, Chelmsford from June 26-28. She will perform alongside Kings of Leon, Skunk Anansie and The Lumineers.
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Critic’s Rating: 2 / 5.0 2 The Beauty Season 1 Episode 6 is certainly the slump episode of the series, but it’s also filled with irony. After initially going into the past halfway through The Beauty Season 1 Episode 5, we stay there during the new episode, and it’s just not needed. Sure, we get
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Aaron Burch is the Rick Rubin of online literary publishing. Over the last two plus decades, he’s helped hundreds of writers jumpstart their careers, whether it was through Hobart, the online literary magazine he edited for 20 years; the micro prose journal HAD; or his latest project, Short Story, Long on Substack. Burch is also
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We independently evaluate all recommended products and services. Any products or services put forward appear in no particular order. if you click on links we provide, we may receive compensation. Last year, when FashionBeans named the Riviera Run Sneaker of the Year, it wasn’t because it was unavoidable. It wasn’t on every billboard. It wasn’t
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Jeffrey Epstein and Sultan Ahmed bin Sulayem, Group CEO of DP World. House Oversight Committee Democrats U.S. officials made new disclosures from the Epstein files on Monday, naming who they believe was the recipient behind a disturbing email sent by the deceased financier and sex criminal Jeffrey Epstein, in which he referenced a supposed “torture
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McDonald’s on Wednesday reported quarterly earnings and revenue that topped analysts’ expectations as its value push wins back customers. “By listening to customers and taking action, we have improved traffic and strengthened our value & affordability scores,” CEO Chris Kempczinski said in a statement. Here’s what the company reported compared with what Wall Street was
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Attorney General Pam Bondi on Wednesday responded to House Democrats’ heated questions about the Trump administration’s handling of the Jeffrey Epstein files by chastising them for ignoring stock market gains and other of President Donald Trump‘s political wins. “The Dow is over 50,000 right now,” Bondi said in sworn testimony before the House Judiciary Committee
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Greenlight Capital’s David Einhorn anticipates the Federal Reserve will issue more interest rate cuts this year than what’s being anticipated and that’s giving him greater confidence in his gold bet. While rate cut expectations diminished a bit Wednesday following the much better-than-expected January jobs report, traders are still currently pricing in a more than 88%
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The droppings of Peruvian pelicans and Peruvian boobies have been prized for hundreds of years Biljana Aljinovic/Alamy Powerful fertiliser based on seabird droppings may have fuelled the rise of a Peruvian agricultural kingdom 900 years ago and helped drive its eventual takeover by the Incas. Chemical analyses of ancient maize cobs from southern Peru show
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