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Arcade Paradise review – enjoy some 90s retro vibes in this tribute to classic games

It’s the early 1990s, and you – a college dropout – have been tasked with babysitting your chronically disappointed father’s launderette business. It is not an exciting job. You pick up rubbish, you unclog the toilet, you load laundry into machines and take it out again. But in the back room, there’s a small collection of arcade machines to help customers while away the time as their shirts dry, and there’s enough money in their coin hoppers to buy a whole new cabinet. And so you begin the slow

‘Definite parmesan cheese vibes’: how to cook with nutritional yeast

New to nutritional yeast? You could be forgiven for giving it the cold shoulder. For starters, it’s flaky and – let’s admit it – it looks dull. That yellowy-brown colour doesn’t help either. But there’s more to this time-honoured vegan staple than meets the eye. The author and recipe developer Harriet Birrell needs no convincing of nutritional yeast’s charms. She’s been a fan since discovering it at her local health food store in 2012. Nutritional yeast (affectionately known as nooch) has become

Gareth Southgate’s England will put good vibes on the line in Germany | Barney Ronay

Football loves its omens and portents. As Gareth Southgate prepares to send his limb-weary players out into the giant illuminated armadillo shell that is the Allianz Arena in Munich on Tuesday night there is perhaps some solace to be taken in the past. The last time England lost in Hungary in a World Cup year, defeat in Budapest was followed by a joyful, unifying, era-forging World Cup final triumph under a dapper and mild-mannered head coach. Related: Kalvin Phillips wants Germany game to

David Squires on … positive vibes only as the A-League Men finally returns | David Squires

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Ben Stokes finds right vibes with blend of craft and aggression | Barney Ronay

There are still some unchanging certainties in the English cricketing summer; many of which were on show on a humid, bellicose second day of this second Test. Specialist wicketkeepers are busy at the crease, all bottom-handed crunch and ferrety shovels. Anything with the name Strauss attached to it will be accepted as objective, unchallenged gospel (call it The Strauss Hundred and we’d never have heard a whimper). Old Trafford will continue to remake the world as a series of red glass boxes, th

Marlon Williams: My Boy review – channelling good vibes

Appreciators of the dulcet-voiced Marlon Williams will know him as a country folk singer from New Zealand whose balladry often skews sombre and bittersweet. No longer. Williams’s third solo album, My Boy, packs in old timey joy as well as old timey sorrow, then adds surprisingly contemporary touches. The title track is replete with beatific “doot-doot-doos”, a sweet love song that’s a far cry from his other ode to a boy, 2015’s Dark Child (that one dies tragically young). Easy Does It, urges ano

‘It gives off psycho vibes’: the sharehouse with a homebuilt shrine to Princess Diana

Kate McGuinness was born the year Princess Diana died and has always “been incredibly saddened whenever I hear about Diana”. But her interest in the royal escalated when she met a woman called Helen via eBay. Helen had been collecting Australian women’s magazines featuring Princess Diana since the heyday of Di-mania in the 1980s. Kate purchased much of the collection online because “Helen’s the only one in her family who values Di,” and as a result “I’ve ended up with hundreds of magazines”. McG

Everyone is sick – illness in 2022 has medieval vibes | Brigid Delaney

Now is the winter of our discontent! After two years of plague, after a summer of torrential rain and flooding and more plague, after an autumn of mould and more rain and even more plague, comes the sickness. It’s like singing a round. You meet someone who’s got it or is getting over it, then you get it and then the people you live with get it, and then you think you get over it but it returns to the start with a new variation of the old illness and everyone gets sick again. Tra-la-la … Some stu

Can ‘chief vibes officers’ and NFT influencers keep things positive amid the crypto collapse?

Don’t call it a collapse – it’s just a vibe shift. Since January, the market for non-fungible tokens (NFTs) has been locked in a downward spiral, with sales on one popular platform falling to less than one-seventh of their January peak, and the buyer of the so-called “Mona Lisa of the digital world” – a $2.9m NFT of Jack Dorsey’s first tweet – being forced to sell for just $6,800. Related: NFT sales hit 12-month low after cryptocurrency crash To shore things up, NFT projects have turned to

Jools Holland and his Rhythm and Blues Orchestra deliver intimate Pavilion gig

A PACKED Pavilion theatre welcomed Jools Holland and his Rhythm and Blues Orchestra on their Bournemouth showing of tour. He and his Boogie Woogie playing orchestra normally play at the BIC so here ...

Questlove Announces Children's Book Debut with Middle-Grade Time Travel Novel 'Rhythm of Time'

The multi-hyphenate — born Ahmir Thompson, originally known as the drummer for iconic hip-hop band The Roots — is releasing his first children's book, a middle-grade novel titled The Rhythm of ...

It’s a Slice of Heaven: Sir Dave Dobbyn announced in Rhythm and Vines line up

If you haven’t got your tickets to Rhythm and Vines yet, you’re going to want to get them now because they’ve just made a huge lineup announcement. With over 102 acts performing on the ...

Heart Rhythm Tops Fair Grounds' Thanksgiving Classic

Lotthenbach Stable's Ready to Pounce proved he belongs in stakes company after earning a 93 Brisnet speed figure, his fastest, and finishing in second ahead of Surveillance and Heart Rhythm in ...

Casio employee is creator behind reggae ‘monster of rhythm’ beat

One of the tracks for the keyboard she composed helped revolutionize reggae in and after the 1980s, when the beat was turned into “Sleng Teng,” a rhythm that created hundreds of songs.

The Hardest Challenge in Bayonetta 3 Is a Rhythm Game

By the time I was gearing up for the end of Bayonetta 3, I was craving some weird-ass moment to bring back the levity, and then I finally got one — a rhythm game involving a frog and opera.

Surveillance bests favored Heart Rhythm in 2022 Thanksgiving Classic at Fair Grounds Race Course

After stalking on the rail from mid-pack, the 1.10-1 favorite Heart Rhythm battled past the filly in the homestretch, but ...

Melatonin, Rhythm Game, Diving into Dreams in December

Developer David Huynh of Half Asleep is happy to announce the release date for their upcoming rhythm game, Melatonin.