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River of Fundament, review: 'a mess'
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Dolly Parton: Just a country girl, now I feel like a rock star
BET awards: Beyoncé, Pharrell and Nicki Minaj win as Chris Rock presides
Lionel Richie, Lil Wayne, John Legend and Missy Ellliott performed as newcomers and mainstays won awards
Pharrell's Happy is keeping a smile on the musician's face: the song won video of the year Sunday at the BET Awards, the top prize in a show marking the best in black entertainment.
His win came in the second hour of the three-hour-plus ceremony that featured performances by Pharrell as well as Lil Wayne and Usher. Last year, the network didn't announce the top award in the jam-packed show.
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Megan Abbott and fiction for teens: 'Noir suits a 13-year-old girls mind'
Like David Lynch for teenagers, Abbott's fiction features a suburbia of closed doors, sexual hysteria and texting
Fear of missing out pervades the young-adult fiction of Megan Abbott. It starts with puberty and is fueled by boredom. How pathetic, says a high-school cheerleader in Abbott's novel Dare Me, from 2012, to an adult who wants to get to know her. Im not even interested in our lives. To be just interesting enough to see how uninteresting you actually are: this is the predicament of the 15-year-old. It leads the teen-girl heroes of Abbotts fiction to drink white wine, take diet pills, and have sex with unworthy boys. Afterward, they go home and text about it.
Reached by phone, in Memphis, where she was on tour with her new book, The Fever, Abbott said, I remember adolescence being a daily disillusionment. Its like a checklist of experiences that you havent had, that you want to have.
Continue reading...Glastonbury 2014: day three in pictures
A tomato fight, a Dolly Parton flashmob dance, Kasabian backstage and Ellie Goulding on stage don't miss our highlights of the final day at Glastonbury
Hacking retrial over corrupt payments
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Mametz, National Theatre Wales, Great Llancayo Upper Wood, Usk, review: 'pierces the heart'
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