A lined A4 notebook is pinned open on a board, highly doodled with love hearts and the strange ideas of an 18-year-old girl, not unlike any other 18-year-old girl throughout history. “Just plain fuckin’ nice” is the title of a playlist that includes Bobby Darin’s I Wanna Be Around (1965), as well as the words […]

Britney Spears’ father has asked for the “immediate termination” of the conservatorship over his daughter’s life that he has ruled over for more than 13 years. “Britney’s recent testimony and requests to take personal control of her estate and affairs have made clear that continuing the conservatorship is contrary to her desires,” a lawyer for […]

My family performed okay through the first lockdown, which was medium-to-spicy. It was only myself, my husband Mark, [my daughter] Tash, and Oliver, Tash’s boyfriend. “Is it OK if Oliver and I come down?” Tash said as the kids were escaping university in London. “Of course!” Mark and I answered, assuming they’d be gone for […]

According to research, Covid-19 has resulted in the loss of 393,000 employment in the night-time economy, including 86,000 in the “night-time cultural economy” (NTCE), which includes nightclubs and theaters. The study, commissioned by the Night Time Industries Association (NTIA) and carried out by leisure consultants CGA and night-time economy researchers Make, discovered that the sector […]

It was a remarkable evening: Louis Armstrong, his wife, and a US embassy official went out to supper in what was still Léopoldville, the newly independent Congo’s capital. The trumpeter, vocalist, and band leader, known as Satchmo as a kid, was in the midst of a months-long tour of Africa, organized and funded by the […]

Remember: all you need to practice positive reinforcement is to keep yourself open to it and to avoid the impulse to go against it. In order to be able to practice positive reinforcement effectively, you need to know how to implement it in your daily life. Here are 10 examples of what you can practice […]