‘Ketamine queen’ accused of selling Matthew Perry fatal dose to plead guilty (Quelle: The Guardian)
Jasveen Sangha, fifth and last defendant charged in Friends star’s overdose to strike plea agreement with prosecutorsA woman known as the “ketamine queen”, charged with selling Matthew Perry the drug that killed him, agreed to plead guilty on Monday.Jasveen Sangha becomes the fifth and final defendant charged in the overdose death of the Friends star to strike a plea agreement with federal prosecutors. Having initially pleaded not guilty, her change of plea means she’ll avoid a trial that had been planned for August. Continue reading…
NBC News Top Stories:A Ryder Cup putt changed his life. Now he’s the captain of the United States team.
Keegan Bradley, 39, will be the youngest captain of a Ryder Cup squad since Arnold Palmer in 1963.
Young prince Lamine Yamal embracing the pressure of joining Barcelona’s kings | Sid Lowe (Quelle: The Guardian)
Barça prodigy stood out on La Liga’s opening weekend, but Santi Cazorla and Nico Williams produced compelling storylines, tooHeavy is the head that wears the crown but Lamine Yamal is willing to wear it. Willing? He wants to, so there he was on Saturday night conducting his own coronation. With the last touch of Barcelona’s first game of 2025-26, their new No 10 – the player handed a six-year contract and the shirt Ladislao Kubala, Luis Suárez, Diego Maradona, Rivaldo, Ronaldinho and Lionel Messi wore, the kid Spain coach Luis del la Fuente claimed was “touched by the wand of God”, the baby Messi bathed – scored against Real Mallorca.It was his first goal as an adult; it was also exactly as you imagine it, Lamine Yamal scoring the Lamine Yamal goal that was Messi’s once. He had come in from the right and then, when the ball settled in the corner, went back out again. Where, stopping before the Son Moix stands, he lowered an invisible crown to his head, a statement of intent for this season and beyond. Continue reading…
Prime movers, Scottish masculinity and hip-hop in a Hong Kong cafe: dance at Edinburgh fringe 2025 (Quelle: The Guardian)
Surprise finds at the festival include a sweet kids’ show about embracing your differences and a beautifully choreographed martial arts duet, in a year with work-in-progress energyFor starters, here are a few of my favourite dancers at the fringe this year. One who made me smile is Alex O’Neill in Dublin company CoisCéim Dance Theatre’s Dancehall Blues. He’s the highlight of an underpowered piece of dance theatre, a duet set in a (somewhat apocalyptic) society in crisis, about rediscovering the importance of human connection. O’Neill brings the material to life with character and charm, pouncing on the steps, his movement muscular and vernacular, with sensitivity and bite.Her show has already ended, but Sarah Aviaja Hammeken is absolutely one to watch out for in the future, an award-winning Danish dancer/choreographer whose solo Soil is about her Greenlandic heritage. The work felt like it could be further developed, but every time Hammeken danced I was engrossed in the instinctive expressiveness and gravity of her movement, the feeling of someone working things out, physically and mentally, a fluent conversation between mind and body. Continue reading…