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Jazz guitar icon brings his search for sonic adventure to Bay Area

Rife with invention and iconoclastic attitude, New York City’s 1970s Downtown scene was famous for tricksters, renegades and eccentrics who laced their music with pastiche and irony. At first glance the uncategorizable guitarist Marc Ribot seemed to embody that seen-it-all aesthetic, but listening to his music quickly revealed a relentlessly curious artist utterly sincere about […]

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Pager and walkie-talkie attacks ‘will go down in history of irregular warfare’

Two waves of exploding communication devices have caused deaths and injuries across Lebanon and Syria (Picture: Rex/AP/X) The deadly communication devices blasts across Lebanon and Syria have been described as an ‘astonishing’ Israeli operation in a region which was ‘already on a knife edge’. The synchronised detonation of pagers and hand-held radios thought to have […]

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Hayden Panettiere ‘ballooned out’ with weight gain after death of her brother aged 28

Hayden Panettiere (R) has opened up about the heartbreaking loss of her brother Jansen Panettiere (Picture: Jeffrey Mayer/WireImage) Hayden Panettiere has made a heartbreaking confession 18 months after the shock death of her younger brother.  Jansen Panettiere was found dead in his New York apartment in February 2023, with his parents, Lesley Vogul and Skip […]

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Married police chief quits before misconduct hearing over sex with rookie officer

Daniel Greenwood (left) allegedly told junior officer Caitlin Howarth to delete their intimate messages (Picture: Facebook) A married police chief has resigned after an affair with a rookie officer 17 years his junior. Chief Superintendent Daniel Greenwood, 41, a Bradford district commander, allegedly took advantage of his position by starting a relationship with student officer Caitlin Howarth, […]