Year of birth missing

A stripper moving into the home of a married couple hardly seems to be the plot of a movie that the film’s director, Jill Soloway, describes as such an endorsement of monogamous marriage she was embarrassed. But that’s the case with the new film, afternoon delight.

Hollywood, the old heavyweight champ of the film business, is down. But a new coach, Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti, has big plans to get the champ back into fighting shape for a triumphant return.

The crisis in Syria has many a pundit looking back to history, and wondering if all of this could’ve been avoided if only the colonial powers had divided up the region better, if they’d made better maps. Look, it’s time to stop blaming the cartographer.

The iconic hippy home accessory, the lava lamp turns 50 this week. It was the invention of Edward Craven-Walker. Anchor Marco Werman speaks with Cressida Granger, Managing Director of Mathmos, the lighting company behind that psychedelic lamp.