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Silent Hill: Townfall review: A breathtaking scare-fest in Scotland

Silent Hill: Townfall review: A breathtaking scare-fest in Scotland

Published by Daniella Wilson

A star rating of 5 out of 5. Silent Hill: Townfall is a claustrophobic analogue terror and one of the most delightfully experimental entries into the series so far. Its small-town Scottish setting doesn’t just ooze ’90s nostalgia for anyone who grew up in the UK, but its streets are so tight almost to the point of oppression, making the game’s slow burn experience an engrossing and breathtaking one. As you’d no doubt expect from a Silent Hill game, Townfall’s story isn’t all that straightforward to understand, leaving you to peel back layers of dialogue and imagery as you start to unpick what’s going on. Protagonist Simon may be the star of the trailers, but the story is actually about three people whose lives have become intertwined after a local disaster, seemingly stuck reliving it. It’s a departure from the more personal narratives Silent Hill is used to tackling but it’s a worthwhile one, looking at the effects of local communities on multiple levels thanks to corporate overreach and lack of government support and local …

Why Kiko Kostadinov chose LA: inside his Melrose Hill store

Why Kiko Kostadinov chose LA: inside his Melrose Hill store

Published by Sam Flores

This story is part of Image’s September Image Makers issue, your guide to this city that refuses to be any one thing. “It was quite surreal,” Kiko Kostadinov, the reflective and deeply attuned mind behind the eponymous brand, says as he recalls his first vivid memory of Los Angeles. “I was staying at the Line, and I remember waking up. [Out of the window], it was the Hollywood Hills. It felt quite dystopian in a way, because you had all these pillars of culture … all this power concentrated in a little mountain.” That was nearly eight years ago. At the time, L.A. existed for Kostadinov mostly as an idea. An aerial view of an otherwise incredibly layered city, which would reveal itself to him in due time. Through the hotel window, the home of nearly 4 million residents appeared to organize itself around mythology. The hills, glittering with celebrity, seemed to symbolize a culture and people that existed largely on the surface. Yet that perception quickly began to fade as the London-based designer spent …

‘Five Heartbeats,’ ‘Sugar Hill’ Actor Was 70

‘Five Heartbeats,’ ‘Sugar Hill’ Actor Was 70

Published by Daniella Wilson

Michael Wright, who starred as the lead vocalist Eddie King Jr. in Robert Townsend’s The Five Heartbeats and as Wesley Snipes’ brother in Sugar Hill, has died. He was 70. Wright died Wednesday in Los Angeles of heart failure and complications from Marchiafava-Bignami disease, a rare degenerative neurological disorder, TMZ reported. “Our family is grieving an enormous and deeply personal loss,” his wife, Susan, wrote on Instagram. “Michael, your work will live forever, but your love will live even longer in the hearts of those who knew you best. Rest peacefully, my love. You will be missed beyond words.” The lanky Wright also stood out as the Resistance fighter Elias Taylor on the popular NBC miniseries and series V in the mid-1980s and as the drug-addled inmate Omar White on 22 episodes of HBO’s Oz over three seasons from 2001-03. In The Five Heartbeats (1991), written by Townsend and Keenen Ivory Wayans, Wright sparkled as the leader of the Motown-inspired R&B group that struggles to deal with success over the years (his King character battled …

Fauci’s Return to Capitol Hill

Fauci’s Return to Capitol Hill

Published by Sam Flores

Anthony Fauci returned to Capitol Hill this week, where he faced attacks from Republican lawmakers during a Senate hearing. On Washington Week With The Atlantic, panelists joined to discuss his response, and more. “The hearing was such a perfect encapsulation of Washington at this moment, with a lot of raised voices and a lot of yelling and virtually no new information,” Stephen Hayes, the editor of The Dispatch, said last night. “With a more serious government we would have gotten closer to answers through that hearing.” Joining the editor in chief of The Atlantic, Jeffrey Goldberg, to discuss this and more: Peter Baker, the chief White House correspondent at The New York Times; Susan Glasser, a staff writer at The New Yorker; Hayes; Nancy A. Youssef, a staff writer at The Atlantic. Watch the full episode here. Source link

The Hill subscriptions aimed at helping ‘superfans’ to ‘geek out’ with journalists

The Hill subscriptions aimed at helping ‘superfans’ to ‘geek out’ with journalists

Published by Sam Flores

The Hill’s SVP for editorial content Bill Sammon has explained how its subscription launch aims to let “superfans” of the political newsbrand “geek out” with its journalists. This month The Hill launched Hill Insider – its first online paywall – which provides a variety of premium paid products while most of its content remains free and supported by advertising. This includes deeper-dive written content, subscriber-only newsletters and five weekly video shows that are effectively interactive calls with The Hill journalists. These include Editor’s Call, which is essentially a weekly version of the regular newsroom meetings led by editor-in-chief Ian Swanson, and The Gavel, which accompanies the free-to-access Supreme Court newsletter of the same name. Sammon told Press Gazette The Hill wanted to better serve its “superfans” who read multiple articles and “come back again and again and again”. He said: “As much as we provide voluminous content to our loyal readers, they always want more.” Of shows like The Gavel, he said: “Members of Hill Insider are encouraged to dial in and call in and …

The Smithsonian’s Show Trial on Capitol Hill

The Smithsonian’s Show Trial on Capitol Hill

Published by Daniella Wilson

The nation’s most scrutinized museum director showed up to Congress this week acutely aware of her audience. Anthea Hartig, the head of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History, referred to the institution as “your” museum. She emphatically affirmed her love of this country. She even cited her family’s Revolutionary War roots. Hartig had been called to testify at two hearings that House Republicans organized in response to a 162-page White House report accusing the American-history museum of “extreme political activism.” But her opening remarks, in which she also asserted that the report “does not fairly characterize the full body of work of this museum,” didn’t ward off a patriotism sniff test. “Do you love America?” Representative Eric Burlison of Missouri, a Republican, asked Hartig yesterday during a hearing held by the House Delivering on Government Efficiency Subcommittee. “I love this country unconditionally,” Hartig replied, a sentiment she would repeat at least half a dozen times during this de facto trial on Capitol Hill. Whether she confirmed or denied her allegiances didn’t actually matter. Hartig …

Primrose Hill neighbours reduced to tears over ‘invasive’ balcony

Primrose Hill neighbours reduced to tears over ‘invasive’ balcony

Published by Sam Flores

Primrose Hill residents are locked in a planning row after the owner of a £5.75m townhouse built a roof terrace that neighbours say invades their privacy. Residents claim the terrace in Rothwell Street allows people to look directly into their bedrooms and bathrooms. The terrace was completed without planning permission in November 2024 and includes seating, a table, an umbrella and a worktop with a sink. The owners, who bought the Grade II-listed north London home in 2023, are now applying to Camden council for retrospective permission. Documents show it is “for the installation of free-standing composite decking system lain on the surface of the existing roof”. But residents of Rothwell Street and nearby Regent’s Park Road say approving the decking would “represent a de facto change of use of the entire roof area to a roof terrace”. Frank Lord, 61, bought his five-bedroom, mid-terrace home at 114 Regent’s Park Road in 2025. The American father of two, who works in sales, has raised a formal objection with the council. He said his daughter, 31, …

The C7 – Tales of Gisod by KM Hill

The C7 – Tales of Gisod by KM Hill

Published by Jenni Sidey

Some books are written. This one feels excavated — dredged up from the seabed of an alien ocean, dripping in watercolor and salt. The C7: Tales of GISOD by KM Hill opens with its young hero being fired into the sea like unwanted cargo, and from that first splash, the story never stops moving. What follows is a dark science-fantasy odyssey across a planet that seems to actively resent the people living on it, told through hand-painted pages that look less like a comic and more like a recovered artifact from another world. The World: Xen Quisha, a Planet with Teeth Rot as a Setting, Not a Metaphor The blurb promises rot, and the book delivers it — but here’s the surprising part: KM Hill makes decay feel alive. Xen Quisha isn’t a backdrop; it’s an antagonist with geography. Under the reign of the Dark Lord Tansluc, the cities have turned hostile, the wilderness crawls with beasts, and criminals have carved private kingdoms out of the wreckage. Hill calls this aesthetic Fantasy Techno-Primal, and the …

Silent Hill Townfall | Release date, pre-order, gameplay and trailer

Silent Hill Townfall | Release date, pre-order, gameplay and trailer

Published by Daniella Wilson

Following the June 2026 PlayStation State of Play, we now have a confirmed Silent Hill Townfall release date, and to get you up to speed, we’ve got everything you need to know about the game, from pre-orders, early access to gameplay details and more. Silent Hill is having something of a renaissance in recent times, with Silent Hill The Short Message, the Silent Hill 2 remake and Silent Hill f releasing to positive reviews. It’s a far cry from the skateboard and Pachinko crossovers… What’s more, we will soon be going back to where the Silent Hill timeline began, as Bloober Team, the team behind the SH2 remake, are working on a remake of the original Silent Hill. But, for those of us excited to experience a Silent Hill story set in Scotland, read on for all things Silent Hill Townfall! When is the Silent Hill Townfall release date? Silent Hill Townfall. Konami The Silent Hill Townfall release date is 24 September 2026, Konami has confirmed. It joins a slew of games that are squeezing themselves …

Harriet Clark’s ‘The Hill’ and the Plight of a Radical’s Child

Harriet Clark’s ‘The Hill’ and the Plight of a Radical’s Child

Published by Daniella Wilson

The Russian Revolution aimed to dissolve the family. Neither true equality nor true freedom could be achieved, the Bolsheviks argued, until class bonds trumped all other loyalties—that is, until people no longer felt greater responsibility toward their family than they did toward strangers. “The worker-mother must learn not to differentiate between yours and mine,” Alexandra Kollontai, the Soviet Union’s first people’s commissar for social welfare, wrote. “There are only our children, the children of Russia’s communist workers.” The early government “tried its best to separate the children from the family,” as Leon Trotsky later wrote, “in order thus to protect them from the traditions of a stagnant mode of life.” This radical attempt to dilute and deny family attachments is the specter haunting The Hill, a remarkable debut novel by Harriet Clark. The author is the daughter of Judy Clark, a onetime member of the American Marxist militant group known as the Weather Underground. Judy, a single mother, left 11-month-old Harriet at home when she drove the getaway car in a 1981 robbery of an …