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Jennifer Herrema: my rules of cool | Indie

IndieInterviewJennifer Herrema: my rules of coolLouis PattisonThe Black Bananas singer, formerly of Royal Trux, has been keeping it real for 25 years. From starting a band at 16 to styling centrefolds for Playboy, she shares her experiences Sheltering behind heavy fringe and sunglasses, Jennifer Herrema is hungover. Last night, she and a couple of friends went to London’s Soho Theatre to see comedian Adrienne Truscott, who delivers her act about rape culture, Asking For It, naked from the waist down.

Lee Hazlewood: the wayward guru of cowboy psychedelia

Pop and rockBest known for reviving Nancy Sinatra's career with These Boots Are Made for Walkin', Lee Hazlewood was a highly unorthodox record producer. An epic box set collects his forgotten songsWhen Lee Hazlewood died from renal cancer in 2007, his obituarists had a complicated story to tell: his enormous success as a hitmaker for Nancy Sinatra in the 1960s, his relocation to Sweden in the 70s, his neglected solo career, his long semi-retirement and his belated return to the music industry, feted by the likes of Nick Cave, Jarvis Cocker and Sonic Youth.

Mine-Haha, or On the Bodily Education of Young Girls by Frank Wedekind

Classics cornerFictionReviewTranslated into English for the first time, Frank Wedekind's 1903 novella is perverse and disconcerting, says Sophia MartelliFrank Wedekind's themes are sexual freedom, childhood and education, and this novella, translated into English from German for the first time, reads as controversially now as it did when he wrote it in 1903. A maverick with no political ideology, Wedekind is best known for his play Spring Awakening (1891), which covers the same themes less obliquely, gaining him a reputation as a pornographic enemy of society.

The Soska sisters are the new faces of horror

Horror filmsWith American Mary, the Canadian twins mix grisly body surgery with third-wave feminismTwins are rarely good news in the movies. The spooky ghost sisters in The Shining, Jeremy Irons's gynaecologist double-act in Dead Ringers, those white-dreadlocked idiots in The Matrix sequels, Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen… Time and again, twins are used as a convenient shorthand for all things uncanny, scary and downright wrong. Jen and Sylvia Soska do absolutely nothing to dispel this image.

The US invaded the island of Grenada 40 years ago. The legacy of revolution lives on | Bhaskar Sunka

OpinionAmericas This article is more than 2 months oldThe US invaded the island of Grenada 40 years ago. The legacy of revolution lives onThis article is more than 2 months oldBhaskar SunkaraWhy we must remember Maurice Bishop and the Grenadian revolution You wouldn’t have guessed he was in enemy territory. Addressing 2,500 people at New York’s Hunter College one June night in 1983, Maurice Bishop won the crowd over with ease, covering everything from the Palestinian struggle to Ronald Reagan’s Medicaid cuts.