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The red bike sat on the median strip with a placard tacked to it. Police aware, it read. The bike was a Kawasaki and Astor had owned one just like it years ago. The night he crashed it, Astor was on his way to a friend’s, a girl he’d known for years, and he’d been too busy thinking about the one day he’d kissed her, the one time they nearly made it through sex without him crying, and then he came off hard, except the bike skidded down an embankment, made a soft landing somehow.

When he travelled in India as a young man, director Nigel Jamieson encountered Kathakali classical dance and drama – an experience that has informed his entire career.

The second instalment of the Tom Hiddleston time-shifting series Loki proves it is the best thing from Marvel in years.

A controversial site once home to a massive woodchip operation has been transformed into a peaceful place designed for people.

In her latest work, performer and artist Rainbow Chan collaborates with her mother to reimagine Weitou bridal laments.

Martin Scorsese’s latest film is a failure of execution and insight, a revisionist Western that hasn’t resolved its central questions.

Caroline was the death doula on Andrea’s books – a good concierge has at least one of every kind of service professional on her books – and when Andrea mentioned to Caroline that she was considering a career change, the death doula suggested end-of-life care. It’s a booming business, she said. And it’s only getting bigger.