TheatreTheir first project saw the actor tormented by a giant crow and pounded at ping-pong. Now the pair have joined forces again for a film exploring guilt and masculinity in an age of mounting dread When Max Porter and Cillian Murphy first worked together, Murphy got so wired from performing that he couldn’t sleep. The project was a theatrical adaptation of Porter’s novel Grief is the Thing with Feathers, in which a grieving husband and father of two sons is repeatedly visited by a giant crow.

Artificial intelligence (AI)BetterBlends promised to invest in the city’s beleaguered downtown but closed its doors in under two months In September, a “bespoke AI nutrition” store opened in beleaguered downtown San Francisco to much fanfare, promising smoothie concoctions generated by AI and a much-needed boost to the area. Less than two months later, it has seemingly closed without explanation. BetterBlends advertised “Your Smoothie, powered by AI” and received positive press upon its opening, ginning up excitement for a new business and a novel use of artificial intelligence.

ObituaryAnita Hoffman obituaryWith Pegasus the pig and other rascals With Pegasus the pig and other rascals On New Year's Eve 1967, a group of friends were partying with Abbie Hoffman at his Greenwich Village apartment in New York. 'There we were,' as Hoffman remembered later, 'all stoned and rolling around the floor, when someone said "Oink" for pig.' 'And so', he added with characteristic inconsequence, 'YIPPIE was born, the Youth International Party.

LGBTQ+ rightsTemple in Taipei is believed to be the only Taoist site set up to revere rabbit god Tu’er Shen, a significant symbol for LGBTQI people in Taiwan and China During a quiet mid-week afternoon on the eighth floor of an office building, A-wei is meditatively separating flower petals to make an offering to Tu’er Shen the rabbit god, a spiritual guardian of LGBTQI people. The small Taoist temple where 24-year-old A-wei sits is a humble room with views across New Taipei city, made cosy by the smell of incense and the mews of two noisy cats.

FilmBertil Guve was 10 years old when Ingmar Bergman recruited him to star in Fanny and Alexander. Bergman had spotted Guve in a bit part in a Lasse Hallstrom TV movie and had dispatched scouts to his school to look him over. "When they asked me to audition, I wasn't really interested," Guve recalls today. The Hallstrom movie hadn't been much fun. "People were in a bad mood and shouting at each other.