Hundreds are missing after catastrophic flooding in Nepal wipes out whole towns
Flash floods hit Himalayan mountain towns and villages, sweeping away vehicles, bridges and even buildings as people fled in terror. Source link
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Boat trips, swimming and seafood: 10 of the UK’s best harbour towns and villages | Travel
The historic harbour is the hub of this working East Neuk fishing port, home to a fleet of about 30 small trawlers and creel boats. Their catches are sold at the covered market on the quay each weekday morning, and served at the harbourside Dory Bistro and Chip Ahoy at the Larachmhor pub. Pittenweem (which means “place of the cave”) also has a Victorian-era swimming pool next to the beach, which is filled by the tide twice a day. After falling into disrepair, it was saved by a local group called the West Braes Project and reopened in 2021, along with the crazy golf course. Early each August, there is an annual arts festival with exhibits by nearly 200 artists in harbourside spaces, heritage buildings, homes and studios. Pittenweem is flanked by two other pretty harbour villages, St Monans and Anstruther, while a third, Crail, is a little further north; the Fife Coastal Path links them all. The Bank in Anstruther has harbour-view rooms (doubles from £120 B&B). Carnlough harbour featured in Game of Thrones …
We Went Wedding Suit Shopping With Karl-Anthony Towns
As much as Towns was anxious about the ceremony, he was looking forward to the reception. What was on his DJ request list? “Mac Miller for sure,” KAT says, name-checking the late rapper as his favorite artist. “If it was up to me, we’d be hearing a lot of Max B.” As far as new music goes, KAT shouts out Loe Shimmy and Drake’s triumphant return (“Last summer, we didn’t have Drake and it ain’t feel right”) before running down what else he’s been listening to lately. “Rome Streetz’ [new album] is great, Drake’s albums are amazing, but one album I think is so underrated is the Octane from Don Toliver,” Kat says, giving a wry shoutout to music talking head Anthony Fantano for calling it Don’s worst album earlier this year. After the wedding weekend, KAT knows it’ll be time to lock in for the 2026-27 season before long, wherein he and the rest of the Knicks will try to repeat the magic of this year’s win. Some players have said getting married and …
Add to playlist: the heartbreak post-mortems of Cape Town’s Rowlene and the week’s best new tracks | Music
From Cape Town, South AfricaRecommended if you like Summer Walker, SZA, ShekhinahUp next Some Strings Attached out now Rowlene Bosman learned to sing in a Cape Town school choir, and the discipline never left her: she is a precision vocalist in a scene that rewards volume. Most South Africans first heard her in 2018, delivering the hook on Nasty C’s SMA – she was the first signing to his Tall Racks label – and the featured artist circuit kept her busy for years. But while South African pop stampeded towards amapiano, Rowlene held her ground as a balladeer, writing slow, confessional R&B in which heartbreak is examined instead of danced away. Her 2020 debut album 11:11, a set of aching, close-quarters soul songs, brought a South African music award nomination for best pop album, and three of her originals – Cupid, Stay and the Nasty C collaboration I Need You – landed on the soundtrack of Netflix’s SA teen crime drama Blood & Water, carrying her voice far beyond home. Hurts 2b Reminded, from her …
The best London commuter towns within 20 minutes of Zone 1
Look east and west for the London enclaves a short hop from Zone 1 that are still holding their value Source link
These College Towns Have the Best (and Worst) Drinking Water
Before you ship your college kid back to campus, you might consider the quality of water coming out of their dorm or apartment taps. In partnership with ZeroWater, Culligan has released the first-ever ranking of US college towns based on tap water quality, grading the largest college towns in each state on a scale of A to F for lead and PFAS (“forever chemicals”). The timing is notable with back-to-school season approaching and water quality a growing concern for college-aged adults. The Best Water Filter Pitchers, Tested by CNET This year’s incoming class is shaping up to be the most health-conscious yet — nearly 30% of Gen Z and millennials surveyed say wellness matters more to them now than it did a year ago. Results suggest most college towns have work to do PFAS concerns: Roughly one-third of towns scored a “C” or worse on PFAS contamination. Widespread water contamination: Nearly all college towns evaluated by Culligan — 92% — showed at least one harmful contaminant in their water supply. New York City was the …
US ‘whites-only’ towns spread to Wales
To apply to live in “Community 1”, a 160-acre site in the rolling hills of remote Arkansas, you must meet a very particular set of criteria. You must be Christian. You must be heterosexual. You must be able to prove your European heritage. And you must be white. The “whites-only” enclave in the Ozarks is the brainchild of Eric Orwoll, the far-Right founder of the white separatist Return To The Land (RTTL) movement, who wants to create racially exclusive settlements with the goal of resegregating society. Some 4,500 miles away, Simon Birkett, a prominent British fascist, is accused of attempting to do the same, first in rural Wales, then in every county in the UK. It is no coincidence. Mr Orwoll revealed to The Telegraph that his organisation is allied with Mr Birkett’s and he knows his British counterpart, who runs The Woodlander Initiative (TWI), a land-buying scheme. The pair consort with other far-Right figures across the world. “When people from the UK apply to us, we generally refer them to the Woodlander initiative,” Mr …
Artists Accuse Cape Town’s SMAC of Nonpayment and Withholding Artworks
South African artist Kate Gottgens recently took to social media to accuse Cape Town gallery SMAC of failing to either pay her for works the gallery had sold or return the works if they were still in the gallery’s possession. On July 2, she posted an image of her painting Audible Doom (2011) to Instagram. In the green-hued, hazy scene, a female figure, apparently with a bag over her head, stands on a ledge, seemingly addressing several other shadowy figures. Gottgens asked, “Has anyone seen this painting?” She said that SMAC displayed it at the Miart fair in 2022 and that it did not sell. It was not returned to her “in spite of many requests over the last 4 years,” she wrote in the post, which she has since deleted. Related Articles She said that since she left the gallery eight months ago, the gallery had repeatedly promised to either pay for the work or return it, but that it had done neither. Several other paintings are also unaccounted for, she says, though the gallery has …
Orange County beach towns are cracking down on elaborate canopies
Greg Viviani has seen some elaborate beach setups in Orange County. They range from lavish celebrations on the sand with tables and flatware to inventive ones, with groups bringing multiple canopies that shade tables, chairs and even couches from the scorching rays, the Laguna Beach resident said. But the sun is poised to hit a bit different this summer on beaches in Southern California. A growing number of beach towns are cracking down on some of the more elaborate shade coverings, citing safety issues. Newport Beach now prohibits canopies larger than 6 feet by 6 feet and requires that the structures not be connected. Just down the coast in Laguna Beach, a city that already had rules governing the size of canopies, officials took it a step further in May and limited the use of such shade structures to certain sections of beach. Violators can be fined up to $500. “Now it’s not people taking up all this space and acting like they have a freaking living room on the beach,” Viviani told The Times, …
Jordyn Woods on Karl-Anthony Towns, Knicks NBA Finals Run and Uniting NYC
As the New York Knicks make their run through the NBA Finals, a wide range of celebrities have shown up to support the team, including model, entrepreneur and media personality Jordyn Woods, who is often spotted courtside alongside Kylie Jenner and Timothée Chalamet. Woods also happens to be engaged to Knicks star Karl-Anthony Towns, who popped the question on Christmas Eve. Speaking with The Hollywood Reporter ahead of Game 5 between the Knicks and San Antonio Spurs on Saturday, Woods opened up about supporting Towns throughout the Finals, being in her wedding era, how the Knicks’ run has brought New Yorkers together, what it was like to witness the team’s historic Game 4 comeback at Madison Square Garden and her orange purse that has become an unlikely Knicks good-luck charm. *** Tell me about your partnership with Reese’s x Oreo. What made you want to get involved with the brands? Totally. I mean, the whole city is orange and blue right now, so it only made sense. For me, growing up, my favorite go-to, even …