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Connecticut This article is more than 11 months oldWoke’s no joke: breakfast cafe’s name awakens US conservative ireThis article is more than 11 months oldCarmen Quiroga called her cafe ‘Woke’ to signal to customers ‘Wake up and have a coffee’. What could possibly go wrong? A Connecticut restaurant has been forced to defend itself in the face of conservative anger over its name: “Woke”. The owner of the newly opened restaurant, Carmen Quiroga, said she had intended to communicate “Wake up and have a coffee” when she named her business in Coventry, Connecticut.

Reel historyWesternsButch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid: surprise – it's not total horse puckyIt’s a rollicking caper, but Butch and Sundance’s lives were cartoonish at times – spiked with undramatic boring bits Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969) Director: George Roy Hill Entertainment grade: A– History grade: B Robert Leroy Parker and Harry Alonzo Longabaugh – better known as Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid – were robbers in the American old west around the turn of the 20th century.

Robert De Niro This article is more than 13 years oldGérard Depardieu claims he helped Robert De Niro rise to the occasionThis article is more than 13 years oldFrench star claims his concoction of water and Chinese heat rub helped De Niro maintain reputation as one of hard men of cinema in sex-heavy Italian film 1900He is an award-winning actor, the co-owner of a French vineyard, an outspoken critic of Juliette Binoche and an occasional spokesman for a Polish bank, Zachodni WBK.

Carrie is as exasperating and as compelling a character as as ever. Photograph: Twentieth Century FoxCarrie is as exasperating and as compelling a character as as ever. Photograph: Twentieth Century FoxTV and radio blogTelevisionThe penultimate episode of the season saw both Quinn and Carrie reverting to type, despite their best efforts to change. But where does it go from here? “Quinn … we lost”How strange to hear those defeatist words from Carrie Mathison.

Domestic violenceMen don’t abuse women because society tells them it’s OK. They do it because society tells them they are entitled to be in control Investigative journalist Jess Hill interviewed dozens of abused women, domestic abuse sector workers, male perpetrators, children’s advocates and system experts over five years in order to write her award-winning book, See What You Made Me Do. Here she answers some questions about issues arising from the murders in Brisbane of Hannah Clarke and her three children Aaliyah, 6, Laianah, 4 and Trey, 3.

Carol Rumens's poem of the weekPoetryPoem of the week: Donal Og by Lady Augusta GregoryThe translation from the Gaelic leaves much of the original's grammatical structure in place, giving her English remarkable energyRarely does a translation so stunningly refresh the language it enters as this week's poem, "Donal Og" ("Young Donal") by Lady Augusta Gregory. It owes its power to a variety of attributes. One is its lyric economy. The only version I could find of the original 8th century Irish ballad has 14 stanzas, whereas Gregory manages with a mere nine.

Iowa‘Selfless and heroic’: Iowa principal who was wounded in school shooting diesDan Marburger was injured in shooting at Perry high school on 4 January, during which an 11-year-old student was killed An Iowa high school principal who was wounded in a school shooting has died, the state’s governor said. Dan Marburger was injured during a mass shooting at Perry high school on 4 January. One person, an 11-year-old student, was killed, and six others injured.

THE BODY BEAUTIFULThe stomach digests pretty well everything sent down to it. How does it avoid digesting itself? THE STOMACH does not digest itself because it is lined with epithial cells, which produce mucus. This forms a barrier between the lining of the stomach and the contents. Enzymes, which make up part of the digestive juices are also secreted by the stomach wall, from glands with no mucus barrier.

Pooky Quesnel, Kelly Macdonald and John Hannah in Rob Williams’s ‘simply superb’ psycho-legal drama The Victim. BBC Photograph: Mark/BBC/STV/Mark MainzPooky Quesnel, Kelly Macdonald and John Hannah in Rob Williams’s ‘simply superb’ psycho-legal drama The Victim. BBC Photograph: Mark/BBC/STV/Mark MainzObserver TV reviewsTelevisionReviewKelly Macdonald played a grieving mother bent on revenge in the BBC’s riveting week-long legal drama, cliche runs riot in the Congo, and Toby Jones’s fine dark comedy is a slow burner