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Actor Danny Trejo Is Opening A Vegan Taqueria In L.A.

The plant-based menu isn’t the restaurant’s only virtue. After service is over, any leftover food will be donated to a local homeless shelter.

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The new ball has a 'pink exterior' specifically designed for the 'unique grip of a woman'

Manager abandons sophistication for brute force at Anfield - and a good job, too, says Jim White

Former England footballer says he remains 'greatest of friends' with Danielle Bux amid claims they are divorcing over him not wanting more children

• Former midfielder impressed with display in 3-3 draw at St James’
• ‘Tonight that was like watching a Manchester United team’

Paul Scholes described Manchester United’s performance against Newcastle as “loads better” after watching Louis van Gaal’s side draw 3-3 at St James’ Park.

The former England midfielder’s assessment of his former club was scathing after they only just edged past third-tier Sheffield United in Saturday’s FA Cup third-round tie at Old Trafford.

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Manchester United could have scored six in the 3-3 draw with Newcastle, says Louis van Gaal.

Manchester United’s display at Newcastle suggested Scholes’s ‘boring’ comments stung Van Gaal. Perhaps he could bring balance to the team

Fair play to Louis van Gaal. The Manchester United manager does not duck questions and he does not hide from issues either. Not only did the Dutchman admit in words that Paul Scholes had a point about Manchester United being boring, he did something about it in the next game to produce something that was much more to supporters’ satisfaction. Well, neutral observers anyway. Whether United supporters could be completely happy with two points squandered at Newcastle is debatable, but they ought to have been happy at the way Van Gaal’s side lined up and went for the win.

Related: Wayne Rooney: Manchester United must find balance between defence and attack

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I love using citrus when it's in season, so when I set myself the task of creating the ideal warming cocktail, my thoughts turned to the Ward 8. It's a lemon- and orange-accented drink created in the late 1890s in Boston—a place that knows its cold winters. Read More

[ By Steph in Art & Photography & Video. ]

Skiers land jumps on ice cream cones, construction equipment struggles to transport oversized hot dogs and jet-powered seagulls zoom through the sky in a series of surreal photographic collages by Stephen McMennamy. Creative director of the advertising agency BBDO, McMennamy takes original photos of everything from meatballs to hand grenades and puts them together in unexpected ways, calling the results ‘combophotos.’

Inspired by the plethora of talent and creativity that can be found on Instagram, the photographer set out to pair things you’d never imagine together. Rather than seamlessly blending the photos in Photoshop so they appear to be a single composition, McMennamy simply matches up the contours of each subject, leaving behind the demarcation lines.

This technique results in images that tell an entirely different story than each of the originals, turning what would be highly ordinary, stock-photo-type images into something else altogether. McMennamy’s curiosity was initially piqued by photo apps that let you layer photos into collage compositions, and then he tried connecting images for a more fluid effect.

“The whole thing is one big scavenger hunt,” says the artist. “Sometimes it’s as simple as playing with scale and other times there’s a more meaningful message being told, like the cigarettes and French fries image but for the most part it’s just visual fun, like a truck with skateboard wheels.”

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Anfield bosses want to legally register the phrase as a copyrighted slogan

Manuel Pellegrini admits next three weeks could be the most significant if his side are to maintain challenge for a clean sweep

Sam Allardyce leans back on his sofa, talking stereotypes. “I’m Marmite,” he says. “Some like me, some don’t. I get...

Season 5, Episode 12

On this week’s episode of Freakonomics Radio: The argument for open borders is compelling — and deeply problematic. We hear from economists for and against the argument as well as immigrants, including former U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright.

To learn more, check out the podcast from which this hour was drawn: “Is Migration a Basic Human Right?”

You can subscribe to the Freakonomics Radio podcast at iTunes or elsewhere, or get the RSS feed.

The post Is Migration a Basic Human Right? appeared first on Freakonomics.

Barcelona star will not appear on the front cover of the Fifa 17 game

Suspended Uefa president Michel Platini says he will not stand in the Fifa presidential election next month.

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When the tide is low in the Delaware River, an unlikely sight emerges from the water: gravestones in various states of decay, serving to bolster the columns of a bridge spanning above.

The Betsy Ross Bridge is a modest continuous-truss structure most people drive across without giving it a second thought to the graveyard remnants below. Its otherworldly source materials, however, can be seen both along the riverbanks in the foundations of the bridge itself.

The Monument Cemetery in Philadelphia held the remains of 28,000 people before it was condemned by the city and given over to Temple University. The land was turned into a parking lot in the 1950s, 8,000 bodies moved to new marked graves and 20,000 unclaimed corpses shifted to a mass burial site.

The limestone and granite grave markers, however, represented a significant and useful resource, well suited to erosion-reducing riprap and column-footer foundations for and around a nearby bridge connecting New Jersey and Philly. Some were ground into rubble or have since eroded, but on the surfaces of many of these stones remain names, dates and other details still visible to those who would seek to unbury their past (images by K. Scott Kreider).

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The holidays are finally over and your body is tired. You’ve drunk every drink and eaten every meat — even the jerkies. It’s time to re-center and get healthy. Here’s a seven-day detox menu plan to get your mind balanced and your body in shape.

Day One

• 7 am (or upon rising): Glass of room temperature castor oil, take dump.

• 8 am: Post-dump herbal tea

• 10 am (breakfast): Blueberry and almond smoothie, whoops, time to take another dump!

• 11:30 am: Coconut water to rehydrate from the dump.

• 1:30 pm (lunch): Salad with carrot and ginger dressing.

• 4 pm (snack): A handful of mixed pumpkin and sunflower seeds — oh god, run to the nearest bathroom, dump.

• 6 pm (dinner): Dump, broccoli and arugula soup, dump.

Day Two

• 7 am (or upon rising): Glass of room temperature castor oil.

• 8 am: No time for herbal tea, as dumping.

• 10 am (breakfast): Raspberry and rice milk smoothie, drunk on toilet, because dumping.

• 1:30 pm (lunch): Teriyaki dump chicken and steamed dump greens.

• 4 pm (snack): Miso soup with watercress.

• 6 pm (dinner): Pea and basil dump.

Day Three

• 7 am (or upon rising): Ideally by day three you’ll need only look at the glass of castor oil to stimulate your bowels and dump.

• 8 am: Dump.

• 10 am (breakfast): Dump.

• 11:30 am: Dump.

• 1:30 pm (lunch): Dump.

• 4 pm (snack): Dump.

• 6 pm (dinner): Steamed dump.

Day Four

• 7 am (or upon rising): No dump?

• 8 am: Where’s the dump?

• 10 am (breakfast): This is getting weird.

• 11:30 am: Just going to wait around for it.

• 1:30 pm (lunch): Nothing.

• 4 pm (snack): Miss dumping like an old absent friend.

• 6 pm (dinner): Tiniest dump in the world, but cry tears of joy.

Day Five

• 7 am (or upon rising): Stomach size of pearl onion, cannot stomach more than one pearl onion.

• 8 am: Herbal tea, dump out pearl onion whole.

• 10 am (breakfast): One salmon egg.

• 11:30 am: Dump out two salmon eggs. Creepy.

• 1:30 pm (lunch): Miso soup.

• 4 pm (snack): Dump out miso soup. Curious, as it comes out in an intact bowl. How did bowl enter dump?

• 6 pm (dinner): Discover that you can dump out any food you want, in any container you want.

Day Six

• 7 am (or upon rising): Dump out bottle of castor oil.

• 8 am: Herbal tea (dumped out in a copper mug).

• 10 am (breakfast): Think about blueberry and almond smoothie, and it comes out of your magical butthole in a milkshake glass.

• 11:30 am: Make some phone calls.

• 1:30 pm (lunch): Friends come over for impromptu lunch. Serve them mixed greens with steamed salmon, olive oil & lemon juice, dumped out on china.

• 4 pm (snack): Serve a full English tea, dumped out on a tiered silver platter.

• 6 pm (dinner): Teriyaki chicken, brown rice, steamed zucchini, dumped out with a lit candelabra and a white tablecloth.

Day Seven

• 7 am (or upon rising): Open a restaurant in your home.

• 8 am: Serve children dump breakfast of Belgian waffles and strawberries.

• 10 am (breakfast): Serve mushroom and leek frittata dump for ten. Point out to patrons how dump is cruelty-free and sustainable.

• 11:30 am: Visit from health Inspector.

• 1:30 pm (lunch): Implore him to try your dump caramel-braised pork belly banh mi, which critics are calling “a revelation.”

• 4 pm (snack): Sadly receive an F grade.

• 6 pm (dinner): Close restaurant, end detox cleanse.

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[ By Steph in Architecture & Public & Institutional. ]

A master of Modernism whose architectural legacy includes a range of monumental concrete structures around the world, Marcel Breuer remains divisive among Brutalism’s admirers and detractors decades after his death. From the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York to the vaguely dystopian IBM headquarters in Paris, Breuer’s work is alternately described as majestic and depressing; cold and clinical to some, and peacefully minimalist to others. Regardless of how you feel about concrete architecture in general and Brutalism in particular, Breuer’s buildings are emblematic of this architectural style. Here are 14 of his most notable creations, as preserved by Syracuse University’s Marcel Breuer Digital Archive.

St. John’s Abbey, Minnesota

After completing a series of modernist residential projects in the 1930s and ‘40s, Breuer moved on to work on a far more ambitious and awe-inspiring scale, starting with the stunning St. John’s Abbey and University in Minnesota. The cast-in-place concrete wonder features a towering bell banner shielding the church’s honeycombed facade. Breuer also designed a number of buildings on the St. John’s University campus, including a dormitory hall (bottom photo.)

Whitney Art Museum, New York City

One critic of Breuer’s 1966 building on the genteel Upper East Side of Manhattan called it “one of the most aggressive, arrogant buildings in New York.” An inverted ziggurat, the structure is undeniably bold. The Hungarian-born, Bauhaus-trained architect “believed that modern architecture needed to reintroduce monumentality and symbolism, age-old characteristics that had been disregarded by modernists earlier in the 20th century.”

UNESCO Headquarters, Paris

As far as surviving Brutalist structures go, the UNESCO headquarters are nothing short of spectacular. Completed in 1958, the Y-shaped administrative building features a sculptural canopy and spiraling fire escape stairs that reach all the way to the roof. The whole building stands on 72 concrete piles.

The Lost El Parador Ariston, Argentina

Among Breuer’s classics is the Ariston Hotel in Argentina, a curving clover-shaped building that has been abandoned and left to deteriorate despite its status as one of Argentina’s modern architectural landmarks. Architecture faculty and students at the University of Buenos Aires are currently flighting to preserve and restore it.

The Pirelli Tire Building, New Haven, Connecticut

Originally built as the headquarters for Armstrong Rubber, what’s now known as the Pirelli Tire Building in New Haven, Connecticut stands out as one of America’s foremost surviving Brutalist structures. Testing of the tires on the ground floor research and development facility would be noisy, so Breuer elevated the administrative spaces. The result is imposing and authoritative; it’s easy to imagine it standing in as the headquarters of a villainous corporation or classified government agency in a movie.

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Data: We look at this season's stats, which reveal how Liverpool have stagnated since change of manager

Mischievous Gunner manages to christen his newborn daughter after Arsene Wenger's table-topping side

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There’s no peace quite like death, a fact that seems to have inspired this coffin-shaped, sensory-dampening hood encouraging you to “say goodbye to everything” no matter how chaotic your environment may be. The ‘Wearable RIP’ fits around your head, with padding for your shoulders and a kangaroo pocket for your hands, so you can get some (hopefully not eternal, just yet) shuteye, even in airports or on the bus.

What kind of burial do you want? That’s a serious question, because the hood will give you three options that change the type of music that auto-plays when you lean back enough to activate the sensor behind your head. Select the glory of a burial by fire, go deep into the silent earth, or float with the echo of the ocean in your ears.

Designers Ting Wu and Yu Ting Chang want you to “cut down the connection between you and reality,” burying yourself in a world of your own choosing. There’s some heavy philosophy in their description of the project: “‘Lived-body’ is the alive body that you can perceive; ‘body as image’ is just the object, the shape of the body. If you can perceive the object, does that mean the object is alive to you? In contrast, if you can’t perceive someone, is he/she still alive?”

The Wearable RIP hood: for when you just want to be a little bit dead.

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Jeremy Wilson: Mesut Ozil has been magnificent and Arsenal are top going into the new year. But can they see it through this time?

His agent Mino Raiola claims he meets with more criticism because the 'racist' Italian game is 'light years behind other places'

Today’s fluff just wants to see a goal

The Mill set its alarm early, laid out its clothes the night before, had a bumper bowl of porridge … and waited. And waited and waited and waited, but it did not come. Eventually, the Mill called it a day, late into Tuesday evening and slumped on to the couch. Louis van Gaal had lived to fight another day. And that’s not all folks. Not only is King Louis set to make it to 2016, he is not going quietly into the night. A man in his position may expect short shrift when it comes to January transfer dealings but not King Louis. Not by a long shot. First on his wish list is Lazio’s Felipe Anderson for a cool £47m. Nothing screams panic buy quite like an over-priced Brazilian midfielder who has had a couple of decent games but when Louis says the word, Ed provides the dollar.

Related: Steven Naismith in line to join Norwich City from Everton for £8m

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Paul Hayward: The days when United would lift their city and sporting spirits everywhere are now just a distant memory

Enjoy Mesut Ozil’s brilliant performance against Bournemouth again thanks to this video from YouTube user Eman DaGoon.

What a player.

Listen to this week’s Arsecast Extra – Ozil gets the odd mention!

Interview: Hasan Abdullah Ismaik says football in England is 'incredible' and tells Jason Burt he is actively looking at a number of options in the Premier League and Championship

Manager delivers a carefully calibrated assault on the assembled media following speculation about his future

If you followed along on my adventures in Yorkshire puddings the other day, you know that resting your batter overnight can have a profoundly delicious effect on the end product. Now I'm giving you another incentive to let it rest: the best morning-after-roast-supper breakfast you've ever had. Read More