Fashion Statement newsletterFashionThis summer’s holiday ‘it’ bag? A no-frills, budget airline polyester carry-onWheely cases be gone! The £15 Kono duffle bag is all over TikTok – and offers practical style at cabin size
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Nothing evokes summer wanderlust faster than a film peppered with glamorous luggage moments. In Rear Window, Grace Kelly travels with a sleek Mark Cross overnight case; in Spectre, James Bond uses a Globetrotter trolley bag; while even Harry Potter boards the Hogwarts Express with an embossed trunk.
NFLInterviewWhy Ali Marpet was happy to walk away from $20m and the NFL at 28Melissa JacobsThe Pro Bowl guard protected Tom Brady on the way to Tampa Bay’s Super Bowl LV victory. But he was always different from the typical football player
Back in February, a key member of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers offense sent shockwaves through the NFL when he announced his retirement after a storied career.
Unlike Tom Brady, guard Ali Marpet would not unretire 40 days later.
CitiesCountless communities around the world scavenge on open dumps – with terrible health consequences. As the UN convenes city leaders for a global summit, what can be done to improve the lives of the world’s waste pickers?
In the mid-2000s, the Stung Meanchey landfill in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, had the dubious distinction of being one of the world’s most famous rubbish dumps. It was, in the words of one resident, “hell on earth”.
Royal Ascot 2019 This article is more than 4 years oldHayley Turner becomes first female jockey to win at Royal Ascot since 1987This article is more than 4 years old 33-1 shot Thanks Be takes Sandringham Stakes
‘In 10 years’ time the girls will be having winners more often’
“It was only a matter of time,” said Hayley Turner as she rode back in, triumphant at Royal Ascot for the first time in her long career and, astonishingly, the first female jockey to win here for 32 years.
StageReviewBlack Box theatre, Galway
Michael Keegan-Dolan charts how he found his creative voice alongside longtime collaborator Rachel Poirier
A dancer drags a bag of compost on to the stage and hacks it open with intent. This is not quite a staged memoir from choreographer Michael Keegan-Dolan, more an excavation of his roots. As in his dance theatre works such as Giselle, The Bull, Swan Lake and MÁM, Keegan-Dolan here uses emblematic characters and scenes to evoke a period and a generation: while they may not be directly drawn from his own life, they tap into collective memory.