Not long ago, Rosie Page was approached by an American visitor to Thirsk, the quaint Yorkshire town where her father Alf — better known as James Herriot — wrote his uproarious books about life as a country vet.
‘We were in the street, just outside here, and he was so emotional that he was struggling to speak,’ she tells me, gesturing through the window of Herriot’s former surgery, Skeldale House, now a period-piece museum show- casing the quack potions and torturous gadgets he used to ply his trade. Read More...
A man who was rescued from a raft off the coast of New England in 2016 after his boat sank has pleaded not guilty to killing his mother at sea in a plot to inherit the family's estate.
Nathan Carman, 28, was arraigned in federal court in Rutland, Vermont on Wednesday on multiple fraud counts and a charge of murder on the high seas in the death of his mom Linda Carman. Read More...
Mike Hadreas is back with ballads for the end-times. Theartist behind Perfume Genius is set to release his fifth album, Set My Heart on Fire Immediately, this spring via Matador Records. For those who can’t bear waiting a few months for fresh Perfume Genius, Hadreas has shared “Describe,” the album’s first single. It’s a heavy, slow burn of a song. Distorted, bluesy guitars back Hadreas as he sings, “His love it felt like ribbons. Read More...