You’re supposed to be quiet in the cinema. So why are the snacks so loud? Michael Rivera, London Send new questions to nq@theguardian.com. Readers reply Cinema chains turn a huge…
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Your article on dogs was uncannily timely (‘She compared her dachshund to my newborn baby’: should you be able to take your dog everywhere?, 19 May). I have had a…
Georgia Quinn is adamant that Vietnam has been slept on as a holiday destination. The lifestyle-based content creator says she has loved the country since she first visited as a…
‘Turbulence test” trips are a “romantic travel trend” for new couples, according to US Vogue. The magazine spoke to two women who had decided to stress-test fledgling relationships with trips,…
The press conference for the Met Costume Institute’s spring exhibition is always a stately affair, but this year it was giving “feudal lady addresses her serfs” or perhaps “Marie Antoinette…
The bullying began shortly after my fifth birthday. My family had moved from Dorset to a small village in Buckinghamshire. I started a new school in September, just before my…
Lucia, 45 double quotation markI felt guilty because I love him and want to make him happy About five years ago, my libido was so low I thought if I…
Under a white marquee on Cannes’ Croisette beach, with the Mediterranean glistening behind him and superyachts drifting across the horizon, the director Darren Aronofsky addressed an audience of executives and…
The single mothers who met in the staffroom Lucy Crowe and Mikayla Jolley, London “There was an automatic trust between us,” Mikayla says of meeting Lucy. “It was instinctive.” The…
When I was 21, I went on a girls’ trip with university friends. Over dinner, one of the girls, who was known for being a liar, announced she had just…
This sounds like an old-fashioned, “take my mother-in-law” type joke, but is the antithesis of funny: one in five British people would swap their dad for a better model. This…
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In 1981 the CD was born and so was I. Both arrivals were surprising and have drifted in and out of fashion ever since. As a baby, my majestic “chonk…
Jelly-like eyeballs are staring back at architect Anthony Burke as he approaches the ice-packed, fish displays in front of Claudio’s Seafoods in Sydney’s new fish market. Sand whiting, blue mackerel…
“One of the biggest things I see is ‘quiet quitting’ or ‘silent divorce’. It’s where you’re living together and you’re just disconnected. So we find ourselves sitting on the couch,…
One by one, the visitors descend through a tight tunnel cut through volcanic rock into the damp foundations of the Teatro Romano buried beneath Herculaneum, with the weight of 2,000…
It’s 12.30pm as I write this. My mind is preoccupied with moving my fingers from key to key on my ageing laptop, a task I paused briefly to remove a…
The Memorial Day sale bonanza is upon us, and we’ve already alerted you to deals on a viral slushie maker and our favorite non-toxic pan, Our Place’s Titanium Pro. Here’s…
Having lived through the “matcha revolution”, I’ve become used to giving unfamiliar drinks a go. From bubble tea to pumpkin-spiced lattes, coffee tonic to ube frappes, I’ll try anything twice…
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Colman on Ben What were you hoping for?Brown eyes, decent chat, and if all else failed, a good story. First impressions?Punctual – we both arrived early and in surprisingly similar…
Plastic surgeons are increasingly concerned about the rise of “AI face”, as more and more clients arrive in their offices with unrealistic AI-generated visions of what they want to look…
Arya the great dane was two years old when this image was taken. She was at home in Pretoria, South Africa, with Johan Van Aarde and three other dogs. “It…