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• Saturday girls: young women ready for the weekend – in pictures

  23-03-2019 18:00
  On Saturday afternoons over the past five years, photographer Casey Orr set up pop-up portrait studios in 14 cities and towns across the UK, including Leeds, Preston and Cardiff, waiting for young women to come along dressed up for the weekend. In all she photographed about 600 of them for her Saturday Girl project, which explores identity and self-expression. “There’s a certain time when a woman becomes visible in the world and there’s a power in that,” says Orr, who is
  
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• Illinois governor's schedule includes recommended attire

  23-03-2019 15:33 via winnipegfreepress.com
  SPRINGFIELD, Ill. - What if you were governor of Illinois and didn't have a thing to wear?If you're J.B. Pritzker, you look at your daily schedule.During his first six weeks ......
  
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• Immigrant portraits in New York art show face down Trump

  23-03-2019 14:21
  Immigrant faces captured in life-sized portraits by artist Betsy Ashton look the viewer straight in the eye, as if eager to tell their stories of leaving home to brave new struggles in a strange land.
  
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• Wellness is swallowing the fashion industry whole. Should I switch camps? | Jess Cartner-Morley

  23-03-2019 09:59
  To be fair, my beat has had a good innings. For a hundred years, it has made billions of pounds out of selling us stuff that boosts our self-esteemI’m thinking of giving up writing about clothes and catwalk shows and reviewing bra tops and yoga classes instead. The latest “in” look for abs; whose mat was in the front row – that sort of thing. What do you think? After nearly two decades as a fashion editor, I feel as though it’s a straightforward transfer of my skill
  
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• '‘We built an eco-house for £10,000 and grow our own food'

  23-03-2019 09:30
  Cassandra Lishman on how she is trying to avoid draining the planet’s resourcesName: Cassandra Lishman
  Age: 49
  Income: £20,000
  Occupation: Farmer and weaverI live in a pink roundhouse made out of straw bales in Pembrokeshire. It’s very hobbit-like. There’s one big living space with an office, kitchen, living room, and a bedroom for my husband and I. As our kids have grown older – they’re 25, 16 and 13 now – we’ve created bedrooms for our two sons i
  
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• Which medieval artwork features 93 penises? The Weekend quiz

  23-03-2019 08:00
  From The Battle of the Carmens to birr and cedi, test your knowledge with the Weekend quiz1 A blend of Tahitian and 18th-century English is spoken on which island?
  2 Which medieval artwork features 93 penises?
  3 What unit of distance is equal to 3.26 light years?
  4 The film Free Solo is about a climb up which rock face?
  5 In 1908, who became Britain’s first elected female mayor?
  6 Living Coral is which company’s colour of the year?
  7 The Battle of the Carmens was a rivalry at what 19
  
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• Turkey’s Black Sea coast: food to drive for

  23-03-2019 08:00
  A cinematic landscape of monasteries, mountains and lakes offers a delicious slice of Anatolian life and makes for a superb culinary road tripIt was the talk of a traditional sweetshop that did it. In the Black Sea port city of Sinop, where boats have names like Masallah and Seref Kaptan, I had just finished a plate of mantı, large, soft dumplings topped with melted butter, chopped walnuts and thick, silky yoghurt. As I floated happily on a carb cloud, the waiter handed me a marzipan-style
  
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• Tin can ally: Jack Monroe’s store-cupboard recipes

  23-03-2019 08:00
  Store-cupboard recipes that cost little, are ready in less than an hour, and might even save you a trip to the shopsPrep 20 min
  Chill 30 min+
  Cook 25 min
  Makes 6-8 Continue reading...
  
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• The 30 best bargain skincare and body products under £15

  23-03-2019 08:00
  The Guardian’s beauty editor picks her most reliable budget buys• Read more: the best products for makeup, hair and nails under £15 Continue reading...
  
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• Is it worth getting a coach rather than the train to save money?

  23-03-2019 08:00
  I need to travel travel from London to Durham – a rail ticket will be £70 but the bus costs £12Every week a Guardian Money reader submits a question, and it’s up to you to help him or her out – a selection of the best answers will appear in next Saturday’s paper.I have to travel from London to Durham on Good Friday and am so broke I’m considering ditching the train in favour of a coach. A lack of planning means the three-hour train trip is £70. The
  
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• How to turn stale crisps into tortilla | Waste Not

  23-03-2019 07:00
  Use stale crisps like breadcrumbs, or put them in a tortilla, just as Spanish superchef Ferran Adrià doesBefore I began writing this column, there were several waste ingredients, odds and ends, that I’d have put in the compost bin. But I’ve since discovered that coffee grinds are delicious in brownies, beer dregs create the best batter and that aquafaba arguably makes better mayonnaise than eggs. I always thought that stale crisps were goners, too, but oh how wrong I was: with
  
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• Prize crossword No 27,776

  23-03-2019 01:00
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