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Drag Race star spills tea on season seven RuPaul vs. Pearl fight: ‘More tense, more awkward’

Drag Race star spills tea on season seven RuPaul vs. Pearl fight: ‘More tense, more awkward’

RuPaul’s Drag Race star Katya has spilled the tea on season seven’s infamous Werk Room clash between RuPaul and Pearl, sharing that the ‘insane’ moment was ‘more tense, and more awkward’ than on TV. While season seven of RuPaul’s Drag Race isn’t that far up many people’s rankings of the flagship franchise, despite a stacked […] The post Drag Race star spills tea on season seven RuPaul vs. Pearl fight: ‘More tense, more awkward’ appeared first on PinkNews | Latest lesbian, gay, bi and trans news | LGBTQ+ news .

Seascraper by Benjamin Wood review – a story that sings on the page

Seascraper by Benjamin Wood review – a story that sings on the page

A young shrimp fisher’s horizons are broadened by the arrival of a stranger in this atmospheric Booker-listed tale You don’t think you need a novella about a folk-singing shrimp fisher living with his mother on a fictional stretch of isolated coast until you read Benjamin Wood’s Booker-longlisted fifth novel, Seascraper. Wood conjures wonders from this unlikely material in a tale so richly atmospheric you can almost taste the tang of brine and inhale the sea fog. As unexpected as his previous four books – which range from a campus intrigue ( The Bellwether Revivals ) to a sensitive study of a Glaswegian painter ( The Ecliptic ) – Seascraper follows the daily trials of Tom Flett, a “shanker” who scrapes the sand for its yield at low tide with his trusty horse and wagon, risking his life in a job that is simultaneously boring and dangerous. Tom is clearly in the Hardyesque tradition of unworldly young men who tend the land or work with their hands (Gabriel Oak, Jude Fawley), and it’s this that alerts us to his vulnerability to charmers and chancers. Continue reading...

Malawi set to run out of TB drugs in a month after US, UK and others cut aid

Malawi set to run out of TB drugs in a month after US, UK and others cut aid

Gains in cutting deaths from tuberculosis at risk as health officials warn clinics forced to ration drugs and testing Malawi is facing a critical shortage of tuberculosis drugs, with health officials warning that stocks will run out by the end of September. It comes just months after the World Health Organization (WHO) revealed that the country had successfully reduced tuberculosis (TB) cases by 40% over the past decade. Continue reading...

Mother Vera review – luminous portrait of a horse-wrangling ex-heroin addict nun

Mother Vera review – luminous portrait of a horse-wrangling ex-heroin addict nun

A nun in a remote Orthodox monastery in Belarus invites us into her world in this beautiful black and white documentary The opening sequence is extraordinary: a nun drops to the floor in devotion, hidden under the swathes of black habit puddling across the stone floor. There is more of this to come in photographer Alys Tomlinson and film-maker Cécile Embleton’s beautiful black and white documentary. It is film of stillness, long, long takes and careful framing – and would look at home playing on the walls of an art gallery. But Mother Vera, with its intense, luminous portrait of a woman, is not an austere art film. Her name is Vera, a nun in a remote Orthodox monastery in Belarus; you could cast her as Joan of Arc, with her beautiful fierce face. The setting itself might be medieval, but then out steps Vera into a bitingly cold wintry day, wearing a floor-length Puffa. She runs the convent stables, and seems to be most herself with the horses. On the voiceover Vera explains that before becoming a nun she was married, and a heroin addict. She came to the convent for a year while her husband went to prison. “I didn’t want to be a nun.” To say any more would give too much away. Continue reading...