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Charlie Watts: the calm, brilliant eye of the Rolling Stones’ rock’n’roll storm

Alexis Petridis

Unruffled amid excess, personality clashes and musical disputes, the Rolling Stones’ exceptional drummer used technique to deepen the meaning and power of their songs…

It’s the birthday of the woman Teddy Roosevelt once called “the most dangerous woman in America” when she was 87 years old. Mary Harris Jones, or “Mother Jones,” was born to a tenant farmer in Cork, Ireland, in 1837. Her family fled the potato famine when she was just 10, resettling in Toronto. She trained to be a teacher and took a…

“Forever Young – A Bob Dylan 80th Birthday Celebration”

Bob Dylan sings during a concert on Sept. 6, 1987, in Tel Aviv. (Anat Givon/AP)

“May your heart always be joyful

May your song always be sung

May you stay forever young”

– Bob…

“I believe that we, that this planet, hasn't seen its Golden Age. Everybody says its finished ... art's finished, rock and roll is dead, God is dead. Fuck that! This is my chance in the world. I didn't live back there in Mesopotamia, I wasn't there in the Garden of Eden, I wasn't there with Emperor Han, I'm right here right now and I…

Landscape Garden Meadow in Flower, 1906

Gustav Klimt

Oberösterreichisches Bauernhaus, 1911

Gustav Klimt

Rosebushes Under the Trees, 1905

Gustav…

For further emphasis:

“Pity the nation whose people are sheep,

and whose shepherds mislead them.

Pity the nation whose leaders are liars, whose sages are silenced,

and whose bigots haunt the airwaves.

Pity the nation that raises not its voice,

except to praise conquerors and acclaim the bully as hero

and aims to rule the world with force and by torture.

Pity the nation that knows no other language but its own

and no other…

You can see the work on show at Piccadilly Circus now



Photo by Steven Sebring

Each evening, at exactly 20.21, the screen at Piccadilly Circus will light up with the livestreamed words of the legendary Patti Smith.



“Some of the work I did in my…

It is shocking what the US has been reduce to in the four years of Mob rule! Is this the future of democracy? Is this the beginning of the end of US civilization? Do we have to tolerate this kind of mob rule fir another 14 days? I AM SO ASHAMED I DONT KNOW WHAT TO SAY.

  Arun Gandhi

End a quarrel.

Seek out a forgotten friend.

Dismiss suspicion and replace it with trust.

Write a love letter.

Share a treasure.

Give a soft answer.

Keep a promise.

Find time for others.

Forgo a grudge.

Forgive your enemies.

Listen.

Apologize if you are…

Ancient Life

Fresco Panel Depicting Dionysos and Ariadne (detail), A.D. 1–79, Roman. Fresco, 37 × 36 5/8 in. J. Paul Getty Museum,…

John Lennon was shot 40 years ago who was the killer?

Paul Goresh / Popperfoto / Getty

The last photograph of John Lennon. The photographer Paul Goresh accidentally captured the meeting between the star and his killer, Mark David Chapman…

RIP John Lewis. Your firey sensibility to the injustices of this world compelled you to fearlessly stand up and speak as one powerful, lion-like voice for so many. You will never be forgotten.

Nelson Mandela: "After I became president, I asked one day some members of my close protection to stroll with me in the city, have lunch at one of its restaurants. We sat in one of the downtown restaurants and all of us asked for some sort of food."



"After a while, the waiter brought us our requests, I noticed that there is someone…

“An Open Letter to the President”

From Mötley Crüe drummer Tommy Lee:

Dear Fucking Lunatic,



At your recent press conference – more a word salad that had a stroke and fell down stairs, you were CLEARLY so out of your depth you needed scuba gear. Within minutes of going off air your minions were backpedaling faster than…

A blessed and safe Pesach to all my friends who are celebrating. May light and grace fill your homes on this passoveriest Passover of recent memory, and may this special season lead to a beautiful renewal of life for us all.

PASSOVER

Tell me: how is this night different

From all other nights?

How, tell…

Dear friends ~ a thoughtful poem to read and consider as we traverse this time of disruption together.

WHAT IF



What if… the virus is here to help us?

What if we subscribe to the philosophy that life is always working out for us?

That there is an intelligence far greater than humans at work. That all is interconnected.

To reset. To remember. What is truly important.

Reconnecting with family and community.

Reducing…

I think we should also start a global trend that says 'Thank You' to all the people who are enabling us to stay at home. The food producers, the warehouse workers, the van drivers, the supermarket staff. the Pharmacy staff, the hospital staff, the social welfare staff, the many many many unseen people working behind the scenes still keeping things ticking over so the majority of people can stay at home. And also be aware of the people who are at home with no income or financial support…

Today is …

by Josh Wyndham-Kidd

Existing on the internet in Australia right now is beyond imagining. I'm going to try to describe it for my overseas friends, who are seeing the horrors but…

NEW YORK (WABC) -- Imagine this: thousands of people joining together to form a human peace sign.

It happened in Central Park's East Meadow Tuesday afternoon, all in tribute to John Lennon.

The crowd included everyone from aging hippies to schoolchildren not yet born when Lennon died:

They gathered to…