Author: Daniella Wilson

On the Ground in Marfa and London

On the Ground in Marfa and London

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Alex Marks; Donald Judd, 100 untitled works in mill aluminum, 1982-86. Permanent collection, The Chinati Foundation, Marta, Texas. Donald Judd Art © 2026 Judd Foundation / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. The town’s always been accepting of newcomers, from Judd to his fellow artists. Robert Irwin—who went on to install his own permanent installation at Chinati in the late 2010s—was passing through West Texas in the 1970s on a cross-country road trip when he stopped at a gas station in Marfa to get a Coke. There he spotted his fellow New Yorker Judd on the side of the road and joined him. Just as there’s a permanent wormhole that connects West Texas to the galleries of West Chelsea, there’s a Marfa connection to Hollywood, dating back further than when No Country for Old Men and There Will Be Blood were shooting in town at the same time. Decades before Judd arrived, Giant filmed in Marfa in 1955, and James Dean stayed at the Hotel Paisano, which is currently getting renovated. (There was once a James …

CoD MW4 missions: Full list of missions and how many to expect

CoD MW4 missions: Full list of missions and how many to expect

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Now that the Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4 campaign has launched into the world in early access form, it’s only natural to wonder how many missions are in store this time. Of course, for most CoD MW4 fans, the vast majority of their time will be spent in the game’s multiplayer modes once they’re all available. But, for now, let’s focus on the story stuff. This year’s CoD campaign will take players to Korea, with Mads Mikkelsen playing the big bad and Captain Price returning to face him down. So, how many missions are in this year’s campaign, and what does the full list of CoD MW4 missions look like? Keep on reading to find out! How many missions are in the CoD MW4 campaign? The are 16 main missions in CoD MW4, we can confirm. If this campaign makes you want to try out even more missions, we’ve got a handy guide about the CoD games in story order. Why not check that out, see what takes your fancy, and go back to …

Moncler’s New Re/Icons Campaign Stars Cher, Jennie and Grace Jones

Moncler’s New Re/Icons Campaign Stars Cher, Jennie and Grace Jones

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Moncler minted a trio of icons by drafting Cher, Grace Jones and Jennie to star in a new campaign to promote the luxury fashion house’s new Re/Icons collection. The range, which debuted this week, pulls styles from Moncler’s archives and reimagines the pieces for a new generation in a campaign that has more ties to the brand’s history as it was inspired by archival photography of early Moncler collaborator Lionel Terray, a French mountain climber. But beyond icon status, Moncler praises its three leading ladies as pioneers. In a preview clip of the campaign, Moncler states, “Pioneers: Those first to explore, so that others can follow,” and that spirit flows through the launch announcement. “Pioneering spirit is just going forward and being tough. Pioneers were tough. It’s going and not giving up and being thankful,” said Cher in a statement. “My most extraordinary dream is to keep discovering different versions of myself that I haven’t met yet,” offered Jennie, who rose to superstar status as one of the members of Blackpink. “To keep creating freely, …

McDonald’s is bringing back nostalgic menu item — but some fans aren’t pleased

McDonald’s is bringing back nostalgic menu item — but some fans aren’t pleased

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Want to bookmark your favourite articles and stories to read or reference later? Start your Independent Membership today. Join today Already a member? Log in McDonald’s is marking spooky season by bringing back its nostalgic Boo Buckets with an all-new collaboration — but some superfans aren’t pleased. To celebrate the 40th year of the limited-edition Halloween-themed Boo Buckets, the fast food chain is collaborating with Disney to feature a set of infamous villains on the packaging. Instead of the classic Boo Bucket designs (consisting of witches, ghosts and pumpkins with corresponding, color coordinated lids), this year’s editions will feature The Little Mermaid’s Ursula, 101 Dalmatians’ Cruella de Vil, The Lion King’s Scar, Sleeping Beauty’s Maleficent and Aladdin’s Jafar. Each bucket includes stickers and a lid featuring the classic McDonald’s arches, in a departure from the more classic plastic design. The Disney Boo Buckets will launch October 20. While Boo Buckets have previously featured other TV and film characters, like Scooby-Doo and Mr. Potato Head, fans were disappointed by the Disney villain feature. And others were …

BBC presenter flustered after leaving frame while not realising she’s still on air

BBC presenter flustered after leaving frame while not realising she’s still on air

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Want to bookmark your favourite articles and stories to read or reference later? Start your Independent Membership today. Join today Already a member? Log in A BBC newsreader was left red-faced after an incident this week in which she hadn’t realised she was still on air. Geeta Guru-Murthy was seen talking to BBC world affairs editor John Simpson when she believed the segment was over. “That was lovely,” she said to Simpson, who was celebrating 60 years with the broadcaster. “I couldn’t, I suppose, have a kiss,” he said, prompting Guru-Murthy, who was getting up to embrace him off-camera, to oblige. Geeta Guru-Murthy on BBC News (BBC) The live feed remained on Guru-Murthy’s chair, which was empty while she could be heard off-screen. Returning to her seat, the presenter realised the cameras were still rolling, and seemed visibly flustered as she laughed and told viewers: “Sorry. Sorry. We are still on air, sorry. I hadn’t realised that. “Um this is BBC News. Let us move on now to sport,” she added. Footage of the blunder …

‘We could get used to this

‘We could get used to this

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It’s fairly rare to see all the Today Show hosts together in a single episode. Between busy schedules, days off, and rotating shifts, the full team is seldom on screen at the same time. However, this week, the NBC morning show enjoyed a special broadcast that saw all four hours of the show hosted in County Kerry, Ireland at Sheen Falls Lodge, sponsored by Tourism Ireland. The Instagram page for Kenmare Tourism shared a photograph of all the hosts posing by a local pub with the locals. The entire Today gang – Carson Daly, Al Roker, Dylan Dreyer, Sheinelle Jones, Savannah Guthrie, Jenna Bush Hager, and Craig Melvin – posed together with big smiles. All the hosts looked very relaxed as they took in the very different scenery compared to their typical studio in New York City. They also embraced their new surroundings through their outfits, with all hosts clad in countryside attire. © InstagramIt is rare to see all the hosts together “We are feeling all the love for Kenmare right now and we …

My Chemical Romance share fiery unreleased song ‘Someone Out There Loves You’ ahead of ‘The Black Parade’ 20th anniversary reissue

My Chemical Romance share fiery unreleased song ‘Someone Out There Loves You’ ahead of ‘The Black Parade’ 20th anniversary reissue

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My Chemical Romance have dropped the lively, previously unreleased song ‘Someone Out There Loves You’. The song arrives ahead of the emo icons releasing an expanded 20th anniversary reissue of their classic album ‘The Black Parade’. Set to arrive next Friday (October 23), the upcoming release sees Gerard Way and co. revisit the four-times platinum 2006 record and release the original tracklist alongside six bonus tracks. Three of which are live recordings from the band’s gig at the 200-capacity Maxwell venue in Hoboken where they played in October 2007, and the other three are B-sides which were previously scattered across different releases. Last month, the first teaser of the bonus material arrived in the form of a live recording of ‘The Sharpest Lives’. It marked the first time it was available to stream, having only been previously available on the DVD portion of their 2008 live collection ‘The Black Parade Is Dead!’. Now, the band have dropped another taster of the record, dropping the electrifying song ‘Someone Out There Loves You’. The song embodies the …

Divergent Author Veronica Roth on ‘Sixth Faction,’ Unfinished Movie

Divergent Author Veronica Roth on ‘Sixth Faction,’ Unfinished Movie

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Some stories refuse to stay on the page. The Hollywood Reporter’s Beyond the Book column explores what happens when books make the leap to screen and beyond — unpacking what stayed, changed, how it was done and why it matters with the creatives who made it. *** More than a decade after the Divergent trilogy and its film adaptations wrapped, author Veronica Roth is returning to the world that made her a YA phenomenon, this time asking what would have happened if her protagonist, Beatrice “Tris” Prior, had chosen a different path. The Sixth Faction, released on Oct. 6, reimagines Roth’s bestselling series (Divergent, Insurgent and Allegiant), which is set in a post-apocalyptic society where citizens are divided into factions based on personality type. The first book in a planned duology is an alternate-universe retelling rather than a prequel or sequel, and it began as a personal project for Roth. “Divergent has this staying power that I wasn’t expecting,” she tells The Hollywood Reporter. “It’s hard for books to have that kind of lingering effect …

Some Woman review – Anne-Marie Duff is wholly believable but this twisty drama is not | Theatre

Some Woman review – Anne-Marie Duff is wholly believable but this twisty drama is not | Theatre

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Opposing forces tug against each other in this new drama as Anne-Marie Duff is magnificent amid playwright Helen Edmundson’s implausible plotting. The result is a failed suspension of disbelief yet a convincing central performance. Duff plays Julie, a mother, ex-wife and working woman whose already over-burdened life is turned upside down by an incident at a tube station when an 11-year-old boy randomly and aggressively insults her. She challenges him, reasonably, and in a series of unconvincing plot turns, winds up facing a legal battle and potential prison sentence. As a story of an ordinary middle-aged woman being buffeted by patriarchal forces around her, this play is stuffed full of important issues. We hear stories of casual sexual abuse, laughed off by those around Julie. Now we see her life virtually destroyed by the boy’s allegation. There is mention of CCTV footage and you wonder if an Adolescence-style video reveal is to come. But the plot makes clear that there is no incontrovertible evidence against her, yet she stands to lose everything. Potential brilliance … …

Horror beyond belief | Radio Times

Horror beyond belief | Radio Times

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Add Aberfan: the Village That Fought Back to your watchlist Margaret Griffiths was at work in the local authority offices in Merthyr Tydfil on 21 October 1966 when the first reports came from the Taff Valley below. A National Coal Board waste tip on the hill above Aberfan, the pit village where the 18-year-old lived, had collapsed. Over 100,000 tons of black sludge had come down the hillside, obliterating houses and the village’s brick and slate primary school. It was 9.15 am, lessons had just begun. “When the news came through, we were all just shocked,” she recalls. “I have a vague memory of getting home and the roads all being blocked. It was chaos.” In Aberfan, Griffiths found hundreds of local people clambering over Pantglas Junior School removing rubble by hand as coal miners dug in the setting slurry for survivors. “I took a tray of drinks down to the disaster site and it was horrendous, like a war zone,” she says. “It was a terrible sight.” Shock turned to dismay when the full …