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Dallas CowboysDallas’ postseason ineptitude has become as predictable as a running gag in a sitcom. The punchline was the same against the Packers The Dallas Cowboys in the playoffs are always a must-watch, usually for all the wrong reasons. With their 1990s run of dominance firmly in time’s rearview mirror, the Cowboys’ 21st-century legacy mostly consists of postseason disappointment. After grabbing the NFC’s second seed in the regular season, it felt like these Cowboys should have easily handled a visiting Green Bay Packers team that many thought were just happy to be here.

Colorado This article is more than 1 month oldColorado supreme court justices face death threats after Trump rulingThis article is more than 1 month oldReport finds ‘significant violent rhetoric’ against justices and Democrats online after ruling to exclude Trump from ballot Justices on the Colorado supreme court are receiving a barrage of death threats after it ruled to exclude Donald Trump from the state’s presidential ballot next year because of his attempts to cause insurrection.

Sexual healingRelationshipsI have a girlfriend, but I can't give up going to brothels because I have great sex thereI've been going to brothels for 10 years (I'm 30), and I'm hooked. I have a nice girlfriend, but can't perform properly with her. Friends and family are urging me to marry her, but I'm afraid I'd be a failure as a husband. I'm ashamed of my secret life, but am unlikely to give it up because I have great sex.

He’s always taken his time… Leonard Cohen. Photograph: Sony MusicHe’s always taken his time… Leonard Cohen. Photograph: Sony MusicThe ObserverLeonard CohenReview(Columbia)Popular Problems is principally concerned with conflict, disaster and the almighty, but the second great gag on Leonard Cohen’s 13th album is to start it with Slow, a fabulously sleazy blues about making the moment last. Ahem. “Let me catch my breath,” Cohen rumbles, his voice an underground train several feet beneath the soil, “I thought we had all night.

Italy holidaysThe Gargano peninsula is a popular seaside haunt for Italians, but now a new breed of young operators are offering low-impact activities away from the crowds The forest was deep, dark, almost mystical – ancient trees, mossy tussocks, rare glimpses of blue sky through the dense canopy. The afternoon air was cool and scented, and had we not been pedalling hard, I’d have needed the jacket from my pannier. Yet just that morning we’d been kayaking off a hot, sunny beach a few miles away.

BlondeSix decades on, the spectacle of Marilyn Monroe’s tumultuous life and death still holds us in its grip. With a major new biopic on the way, her biographer sorts fact from fiction In May, a portrait of a woman sold at auction in New York for $195m (£157m): a record for an artwork by an American artist and by any artist in the 20th century. That month, also in New York, there was a furore when a dress the woman had once worn was paraded at the Metropolitan Museum of Art gala by a reality TV star.

Alex Bellos's Monday puzzleMathematicsDid you solve it? The logic question almost everyone gets wrongThe results are in and yes, most of you got this one wrong. Here’s why. Earlier today I set you this puzzle: Jack is looking at Anne, but Anne is looking at George. Jack is married, but George is not. Is a married person looking at an unmarried person? A: Yes B: No C: Cannot be determined

Music blogMusicHow bad is Yoko Ono's Bad Dancer video?Questlove, Roberta Flack, the Beastie Boys, Deerhoof's Greg Saunier and other celebs get their groove on in Ono's new video. Is it cooler than McCartney's celeb-packed Queenie Eye?Reading on mobile? Click here to view video Paul McCartney may have enlisted the A-list powers of Johnny Depp, Sean Penn, Kate Moss and Meryl Streep for his Queenie Eye video, but Yoko Ono has decided to trump the former Beatle by using footage of much admired left-field names for her new single.

India's figurehead for independence and non-violent protest pleads with the leader of Nazi Germany 23 July 1939 As tensions mounted in Europe following Germany’s occupation of Czechoslovakia, Mohandas Gandhi, the famously non-violent leader of the Indian independence movement, wrote a clear and concise plea for Hitler to avoid war, but it never reached its intended recipient because of an intervention by the British government. Just over a month later, the world looked on in horror as Germany invaded Poland.