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BBC News
28-05-2025
- General
- BBC News
Your Newcastle player of the season
We asked you to select your Newcastle player of the season from the four candidates chosen by our fan with the poll now closed, we can reveal the winner is... Sandro Tonali!Here's what Charlotte Robson from the True Faith: Newcastle United Podcast, external said about him:Midfield maestro from season has seen us unlock this player who somehow seems to get better and better each has slotted into this holding midfielder/attacking hybrid role with ease, pushing play up the pitch and being instrumental in crucial the final poll breakdown
Daily Mirror
28-05-2025
- Daily Mirror
Warped killer butchered helpless student and put body parts in post
Hundreds of citizen detectives were determined to learn the identity of depraved Luka Magnotta months before he committed a brutal murder, even warning authorities he was set to kill Like several well known killers before him, twisted Luka Magnotta started out by abusing animals before he progressed to human slaughter. The murderer's sick online video of pet torture called '1 boy 2 kitten' would eventually prove to be his downfall after a group of animal loving citizen detectives tracked him down. Now 42, Magnotta is behind bars in Canada for killing Chinese international student Jun Lin, 33, who he had met on a dating site. Back in May 2012, he filmed the sick murder of his victim and posted it online, calling it '1 Lunatic 1 Ice Pick'. Posted on a gore site, the horrific video showed Magnotta in dark clothing towering over blindfolded Lin as he stabbed him a hundred times. The depraved murderer later dismembered his victim's body before mailing it to various political parties in Toronto, sparking a huge police search. His video contained clues - a poster for the movie Casablanca was above the bed, while New Order's track True Faith was playing in the background. And hundreds of cat-loving detectives were already on Magnotta's trail, coming close to catching him for his sick torture of animals. A year and a half before he murdered Lin, a Facebook group had been mobilised after Magnotta posted footage of a figure in a dark green hoodie suffocating two tabby kittens using a vacuum and plastic bag. They spent thousands of hours analysing photographs for clues and metadata which they handed to law enforcement, convinced that just like serial killers like Ian Brady, the as yet unidentified Magnotta would go onto kill humans. The internet sleuths identified a wolf blanket on the sick footage as one that retailed on eBay and could be shipped internationally from the US. From plug sockets to the size of the twin beds in the clip, everything was analysed to try and find the video's location. The breakthrough came when one of the sleuths received a message: "The name of the kitten vacummer you are looking for is Luka Magnotta." Searching online found the man named seemingly living the life of a jet-setting top model, with wild rumours suggesting he had dated both Michael Jackson and Madonna. Narcissistic Magnotta had created a false online profile for himself - in reality he was born in Toronto and became a stripper and porn star. Convicted of defrauding a vulnerable 21-year-old woman, he later filed for bankruptcy and in his quest for fame entered reality TV shows and created countless websites and news articles about himself. When he failed to become a star he progressed to kitten torture, which did capture the public's attention for all the wrong reasons. Now armed with a name, the determined internet sleuths tracked Magnotta to a location in Toronto where police found he had already moved out. The twisted torturer next made a video called 'Python Christmas ', which showed a live kitten being fed to a snake, before another showing a kitten being drowned in a bathtub. The sick clips were filmed in Islington, North London and Magnotta went onto meet a reporter from The Sun newspaper who had been alerted by the citizen detectives. Chillingly, the killer later sent an email to the reporter which warned: "Next time you hear from me it will be in a movie I am producing that will have some humans in it, not just pussies... Once you kill and taste blood it's impossible to stop." Magnotta's warning sadly came true five months later. After body parts were distributed, the killer's studio apartment in Montreal was found complete with a blood soaked mattress and he became one of Interpol's most wanted. And it was a Berlin internet cafe worker, Kadir Anlayisli, who snared him in the end - the eagle-eyed news lover recognised the killer looking up articles about himself. Magnotta had achieved his dream of being famous and in 2014, he was jailed for 25 years in Montreal for first degree murder. He will become eligible for day parole in June 2034. His story was told on Netflix docu-series, Don't F**k with Cats'.
Yahoo
22-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Soaking in the Past at the Cruel World Festival
The very first Cruel World festival at Brookside at the Rose Bowl was held over two sweltering 90+ degree days in 2022, daring denizens of gloomy music and ghoulish dress-up to brave the California sun in their fishnets to see their favorite artists live in an outdoor festival setting. Saturday's wet and rainy 2025 edition may have been more appropriate in terms of environment for a goth and new wave assembly, but it didn't appear to be as successful, and the rain wasn't even the main problem. Economic struggle has affected us all, from gas to groceries and especially entertainment like concerts. Coachella, now a mainstream pop extravaganza, barely sold out its GA tickets this year in its first weekend, and the second weekend didn't sell out at all. Beyonce, who kicked off her Cowboy Carter Tour with five nights at Sofi Stadium did ultimately sell out, but it wasn't quick, and cheap seats were released each night to fill the venue. Niche and nostalgia fests like Cruel World can be hot tickets but the bill has to be right— and the formula can't last forever unless it evolves. C.W. has attempted to do that as its grown, dipping into poppier acts from the 80's and expanding its scope into the 90's and 2000's alongside 80's bands and new ones inspired by them. But excitement for this year's line-up never matched the first incarnations which featured comeback shows from post-punk legends Bauhaus (2022) and Siouxsie Sioux (2023), and pop-friendly new wave poster boys Duran Duran (2024). At this year's Cruel World —headlined by Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds and New Order, with secondary bill-toppers including the Go-Go's, Devo, OMD, Death Cult, Garbage, Madness, Til Tuesday, She Wants Revenge and Alison Moyet— the bad weather definitely put a damper on things, but the atmosphere was clearly diminished regardless, from the vendor count to the crowd itself. Musically, there were more hits than misses, but some of the misses were Order closed out the night on the main Outsiders Stage with a whimper, and even a vibrant light and laser show couldn't save them. Lead singer Bernard Sumner's vocals were on the weak side of acceptable, but his energy was lacking to the extent that we wondered if he even wanted to be there. The band have a handful of heartfelt hits that bring a lot of us back to a wistful time in our lives. For me, songs like "True Faith" and "Bizarre Love Triangle" recall teen breakups, unrequited loves, house parties and clubs (right there in Pasadena) where they all played out. New Order's music is melancholy in the best possible way, especially from the Gen X perspective— upbeat sonically but haunting lyrically. Saturday the band didn't come close to conveying the emotion that made them so special in their heyday. Even their Joy Division material lacked angst. 'Blue Monday' a hit so well-known, it veers into wedding reception playlist territory (it played at mine anyway) felt limp as well. By contrast, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, who played just before New Order, were mesmerizing and powerful. It felt like they had something to prove, though Cave's transcendent performances always kind of feel that way. He may be a legendary dark music figure —from his time in the Birthday Party to his Bad Seeds and Grinderman projects— but he doesn't have the American radio hits that many from Saturday's bill did. Some Reddit and social media groups doubted him as a headliner, pointing out his lack of populist appeal. They were proven wrong on Saturday, and we're guessing many of the same naysayers became new fans this past weekend. The Bad Seeds turned in the best headliner set of the day led by Cave's eternally visceral, passionate, theatrical presence up front. Even when no one in the crowd knew the words to sing along to classics like "Frogs" and "Tupelo," or the band's latest, "Wild God" (read our conversation about the record HERE), he had everyone enraptured from start to finish. Across the Brookside Golf Club grounds at the Sad Girls stage, The Go-Go's played in between the two headliners. Sound-wise, they had some problems but their energy made up for it. These ladies are L.A. legends of course, and it was nice to see them get the spotlight twice, first at Coachella and then at C.W. Dressed in sequins, lame and colorful prints, the band brought lots of exuberance to their set full of hits like "Our Lips are Sealed," "Vacation" and "We Got the Beat," which were joyful if imperfect, leading guitarist Jane Wiedlin to remind fans that they started out a bit sloppy too, playing at the legendary Hollywood punk club The Masque. Other retro sets that made the soggy Saturday worth trekking: Blancmange, whose hits "Don't Tell Me" and "Living on the Ceiling" sounded just as sharp as they did when we first heard them on K-ROQ 106.7 and DJ Richard Blade's local new wave TV show MV3; Alison Moyet, arguably one of the most powerful voices of the 80's, giving us chills-inducing takes on Yazoo faves "Situation," "Only You" and "Don't Go;" the Buzzcocks poppy-punk bops which still have bounce even without Pete Shelley. It poured during all these sets but it didn't matter; each made their own did Madness, whose ska-flaired pop is proving timeless on stage (and in TV commercials); Devo, who've shown they basically can't give a bad performance at this point, with ebullient sets at the first Cruel World and last year's Darker Waves as well as Sat.; OMD, a vocals-driven group whose hits like "If You Leave" and "Enola Gay" still sparkled; and Death Cult (for many of us, their closing nod to the Love era with "She Sells Sanctuary" made the set). Beyond Cave, who is really in a class by himself —or at least, right next to Peter Murphy, Siouxsie and Morrissey from past fests— the strongest sets of the day came from Garbage and She Wants Revenge, two somewhat younger bands who've been around the block but clearly still have a lot of hunger on stage and in their hearts. Rather than simply playing their hits and hoping they still sound good, both added nuances to their best known numbers and served up new material they're been working on that actually got us excited to hear more. Dressed in a colorful ruffled frock, Garbage's Shirley Manson really connected with the crowd talking about the Butch Vig-led band's 32 year journey and conveying what an honor it was to share the stage with so many influential artists. She also begrudged her band's slot against Devo, playing the opposite stage at the same time, and thanked everyone for being there. Garbage may not have fit with the festival's 80's-heavy or goth thematics on paper, but songs like "#1 Crush," "Paranoid," and especially "Only Happy When Rains" were perfect vibe-wise and Manson made them sound and feel of the rain. She Wants Revenge's Justin Warfield was the only one to truly celebrate Saturday's weeping clouds, likening the day to the perfect "goth prom." Indeed, the grey clouds made for a sexy and moody backdrop behind him as he crooned hits like "These Things" and "Red Flags and Long Nights."A Psychedelic Furs cover, a new song and the early 2000s-era band's now iconic hit "Tear You Apart" (which won new fans when a vampiric Lady Gaga seduced and bludgeoned someone to the track in American Horror Story a few years ago) represented everything Cruel World can and hopefully will continue to be: dark and dramatic energy, killer hooks and lyrical reverence for the outsiders and weirdos who made music so interesting and intoxicating decades ago. See more photos from Cruel World by photographer in the photo gallery below: View the 48 images of this gallery on the original article
BBC News
06-05-2025
- Sport
- BBC News
Newcastle news: 'Let's keep Isak happy'
It wouldn't be Newcastle United if it was all easy now would it? We've been saying for weeks that Champions League qualification is very much in our hands. And we find ourselves as fans once again checking who Villa are playing, who Forest are playing, what the goal difference is, etc, etc. We managed to grab a point this weekend to stay (un)comfortably in the mix but thanks to a weakened (or just not bothered?) Liverpool side capitulating to Chelsea our fixture this coming Sunday becomes absolutely huge. We're up for the challenge. I think. Some questions are being asked of Alexander Isak and whether or not he is fully fit. It's funny - if you look at his stats this season he has scored 23 goals, and yet it feels like we haven't fully unlocked his potential. Yes, we scored a penalty this weekend - but that was only his second touch in the opposition box. In the 89th minute. My two cents are that he is fit - he played the whole game and didn't need to be replaced at any point - but something slightly tactically isn't working. I'd like to see Anthony Gordon back and working with him but here is where I am going to surprise you: I am not a qualified football coach and I don't know how to fix it. I know. I know! Maybe I'm being greedy - 23 goals is a lot of goals! But I also want Isak to be happy at Newcastle and I think he (a striker) is very happy when scoring goals. Seeing him throw his hands up, exasperated not to get on the end of a cross, or to be not crossed to at all, worries me (though I acknowledge that worrying me specifically is not a difficult thing to do). He is vital to a Champions League or any other European campaign next season. Let's keep him happy. Find more from Charlotte Robson at the True Faith: Newcastle United Podcast, external
