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- UK warns of ‘unprecedented sanctions’ against Russia as Biden says west is united on Ukraine
- Alabama coalminers on strike for 10 months vow not to be ‘starved out’
- Too young to retire but at risk for Covid, older Americans struggle to find work
- UN data reveals ‘nearly insurmountable’ scale of lost schooling due to Covid
- Two pioneering overdose prevention centers in New York are saving lives
- Cake and singing on PM’s birthday was not a party, says Grant Shapps
- Sheldon Silver, top New York lawmaker sentenced for corruption, dies aged 77
- Rising temperatures threaten future of Winter Olympics, say experts
- Neil Young demands Spotify remove his music over Joe Rogan vaccine misinformation
- French election polls: who is leading the race to be the next president of France?
- Joe Biden appears to insult Fox News reporter over inflation question
- John Cameron Mitchell: ‘There’s been a certain sex panic in the air’
- My husband used to cheat on me and now he wants a threesome
- ‘Princess Anne is a rock star’: Erin Doherty on stealing scenes in The Crown and creepy new drama Chloe
- Behind the label: how the US stitched up the Honduras garment industry
- Mother nature’s son: the exotic world of songwriter eden ahbez
- Apple AirPods 3 review: solid revamp with better fit and longer battery
- Covid live: Netherlands expected to drop Omicron measures; Russia sets cases record for fifth consecutive day
- Vaccines will always be our best weapon against Covid – here’s how to deploy them | Andrew Pollard
- One of my kids has gone vegetarian. Now the rest of the family want meat with everything
- I’ve seen the metaverse – and I don’t want it
- USA 1999 transformed women’s soccer. Can Beijing 2022 do the same for ice hockey?
- Australian Open quarter-finals: Ash Barty wins, Monfils v Berrettini – live!
- Egan Bernal in intensive care for spine surgery following training crash
- ‘Nurdles are everywhere’: how plastic pellets ravaged a Sri Lankan paradise
- Boris Johnson clings on, the scandals keep coming
- ‘Depth of tradition’: Dior haute couture show celebrates India’s art and embroidery
- Judy Baca, the renowned Chicana muralist who paints LA’s forgotten history: ‘My art is meant to heal’
- Rachel Roddy’s recipe for Roman broccoli cutlets | A kitchen in Rome
- Governments around the world used Covid to erode human rights – report
- Gun that killed stuntman in Brisbane in 2017 should never have been on set, coroner finds
- Fight Club gets a new ending in China - and the authorities win
- Deal to ‘free’ Aboriginal flag welcomed – but questions remain
- Victory in court for indigenous women raped during Guatemala’s civil war
- Dutch university gives up Chinese funding due to impartiality concerns
- Hands of Harlem: Roy DeCarava’s search for beauty – in pictures
- Heavy snow blankets Athens and Istanbul – in pictures
| UK warns of ‘unprecedented sanctions’ against Russia as Biden says west is united on Ukraine Posted: 24 Jan 2022 08:52 PM PST Virtual meeting between western powers comes as the US put 8,500 troops on alert and as France prepares to host a meeting of Russian and Ukrainian officials US president Joe Biden has insisted there was "total" unity among western powers after crisis talks with European leaders on how to deter Russia from an attack against Ukraine, as Downing Street warned of "unprecedented sanctions" against Moscow should an invasion take place. . "I had a very, very, very good meeting – total unanimity with all the European leaders," Biden told reporters shortly after finishing a one hour and 20 minute video conference on Monday with allied leaders from Europe and Nato. Continue reading... |
| Alabama coalminers on strike for 10 months vow not to be ‘starved out’ Posted: 25 Jan 2022 02:00 AM PST State troopers escort strikebreakers to the mines and local courts grant injunctions to limit pickets About 1,100 coalminers in Alabama have entered 2022 still on strike, more than 10 months since they walked out back in April last year, making it the longest strike in the US since the Covid-19 pandemic began and the longest in Alabama's history. Workers started the unfair labor practice strike over claims of bad faith bargaining by Warrior Met Coal over a new union contract. In the previous contract settled in 2016, miners accepted several concessions, including a $6-an-hour pay cut and reductions in health insurance and other benefits as the mines switched employers in the wake of a bankruptcy. Continue reading... |
| Too young to retire but at risk for Covid, older Americans struggle to find work Posted: 25 Jan 2022 02:00 AM PST Despite reports of US worker shortages, people who are less than five years from retirement are facing a lack of employment options Elaine Simons, a 61-year-old substitute art teacher in the Seattle, Washington area, was on a 10-month contract and hoping to settle into a more permanent role at the school where she was teaching when the Covid-19 pandemic hit the US in March 2020. Her school shut down for the remainder of the school year, with Simons having to pack up her classroom and learn to navigate the technology necessary to teach remotely. In June 2020, Simons was informed her teaching contract would not be renewed. Continue reading... |
| UN data reveals ‘nearly insurmountable’ scale of lost schooling due to Covid Posted: 24 Jan 2022 11:45 PM PST Up to 70% of 10-year-olds in low- and middle-income countries lack basic reading skills, with learning losses seen from US to Ethiopia The scale of the number of children who have lost out on their schooling during the pandemic is "nearly insurmountable", according to UN data. Up to 70% of 10-year-olds in low- and middle-income countries cannot read or understand a simple text, up from 53% pre-Covid, the research suggested. Continue reading... |
| Two pioneering overdose prevention centers in New York are saving lives Posted: 24 Jan 2022 11:00 PM PST The first of their kind in the US help stabilize people in crisis and get them connected with needed services Until recently, Ron M would take illicit drugs in what space he could find: public restrooms, subway alleyways or just in the street. He often used alone; the possibility of a fatal overdose was high. That's why the East Harlem overdose prevention center has been such a blessing to him. Continue reading... |
| Cake and singing on PM’s birthday was not a party, says Grant Shapps Posted: 25 Jan 2022 01:04 AM PST Transport secretary says Sue Gray will be using incident in her report, and 'we'll wait to see what she says' Boris Johnson's gathering with birthday cake in the cabinet room was not a party, the transport secretary, Grant Shapps, has said, denying the prime minister had organised the event. "The prime minister clearly didn't organise to be given a cake," Shapps told Sky News after the latest revelations about lockdown breaches in Downing Street. "Some people came forward and thought it would be appropriate for on his birthday." Continue reading... |
| Sheldon Silver, top New York lawmaker sentenced for corruption, dies aged 77 Posted: 24 Jan 2022 06:46 PM PST Democrat spent two decades as speaker of state assembly before conviction over real-estate dealings Sheldon Silver, one of the most powerful figures in New York state government for two decades before his conviction on corruption charges, has died in federal custody. He was 77. Silver, who served as the speaker of the New York state assembly, died on Monday, the federal Bureau of Prisons said, adding that the official cause of death would be determined by the medical examiner. Silver's supporters had said he was in failing health from multiple medical conditions. Continue reading... |
| Rising temperatures threaten future of Winter Olympics, say experts Posted: 25 Jan 2022 02:00 AM PST Only one of 21 previous venues would be able to reliably host Games in future if global emissions remain on current path, study shows Rising temperatures caused by the escalating climate crisis mean future Winter Olympics will struggle to find host cities with enough snow and ice, according to a study. Only one of 21 previous Winter Olympics locations would be able to reliably host the Games in future if global greenhouse gas emissions remain on their current trajectory, the report says. |
| Neil Young demands Spotify remove his music over Joe Rogan vaccine misinformation Posted: 24 Jan 2022 09:45 PM PST 'They can have Rogan or Young. Not both,' writes musician in an open letter to his management that has since been taken down from his website Neil Young has demanded that his music be removed from Spotify due to vaccine misinformation spread by podcaster Joe Rogan on the streaming service, saying: "They can have Rogan or Young. Not both." In an open letter to his manager and record label that was posted to his website and later taken down, Young wrote: "I am doing this because Spotify is spreading fake information about vaccines – potentially causing death to those who believe the disinformation being spread by them. Please act on this immediately today and keep me informed of the time schedule." Continue reading... |
| French election polls: who is leading the race to be the next president of France? Posted: 25 Jan 2022 12:30 AM PST Emmanuel Macron and the far-right hopeful Marine Le Pen look set to be joined by numerous other candidates in the French presidential election. We look at the latest polling, and introduce some of the most likely candidates France will vote to elect a new president in April, and the list of competitors became clearer on Saturday with the nomination of the centre-right Les Républicains party's candidate, Valérie Pécresse. The current president, Emmanuel Macron, has yet to declare his candidacy but is expected to run again. His second-round opponent from 2017, the far-right populist Marine Le Pen, has already launched her campaign. Continue reading... |
| Joe Biden appears to insult Fox News reporter over inflation question Posted: 24 Jan 2022 05:00 PM PST President caught on mic seemingly swearing at Peter Doocy as journalists left a news conference Joe Biden was caught on a hot mic appearing to insult the Fox News journalist Peter Doocy, seemingly calling him a "stupid son of a bitch" after Doocy posed a question about US inflation. "Do you think inflation is a political liability in the midterms?" the reporter asked the president as journalists were leaving the room at the end of an event at the White House on Monday. Continue reading... |
| John Cameron Mitchell: ‘There’s been a certain sex panic in the air’ Posted: 24 Jan 2022 11:04 PM PST The multi-hyphenate talks about the rerelease of his groundbreaking drama Shortbus and the changes in how we view sex in the past 15 years It's a little more than 15 years since John Cameron Mitchell's Shortbus exploded – interpret that verb as lewdly as you like – into cinemas, and in a sense, it feels a whole lot longer. Which is not to say that Mitchell's brazenly queer, joyously sex-positive comedy, about a female sex therapist pursuing the orgasm she's never experienced at New York's raunchiest underground club, is outdated. Rewatched today, as it enjoys a rerelease in US cinemas, it veritably hums with erotic vigour and philosophical playfulness, a presciently liberated film with its eye on the future of sexual connection, in all its poly, nonbinary possibilities. It's just that it's hard to imagine film-making this proudly and playfully carnal coming out of the American indie scene now: we're living through a remarkably chaste period of cinema, perhaps marked by post-MeToo caution and responsibility, as film-makers reconsider the boundary between exuberance and exploitation. With its copious unsimulated sex scenes, Shortbus certainly raised some eyebrows in 2006 – but it could well be a lightning rod today, throwing a wrench into debates over who is allowed to depict what on screen. Continue reading... |
| My husband used to cheat on me and now he wants a threesome Posted: 25 Jan 2022 12:00 AM PST We have two children together and I want to settle down, but if he loves me like he says he does, why am I not enough for him? At the beginning of our relationship my husband was not faithful. He had secret affairs and flirtations that I was suspicious about, but if I brought it up, I was called crazy and accused of sabotaging our relationship. It wasn't until our first child was born, after four years of marriage, that he felt extreme guilt and remained faithful. Shortly after baby number two was born three years later, he told me that he was polyamorous and has a crush at work. There are times when he emotionally pulls away and this is when I think he desires more than just me. When I told him I was ready to break up, he claimed he would do anything not to lose me. We started dating again but, after two weeks, he asked me to consider having a threesome. I feel I have reached a point where I am ready to settle down and that is why I married him. But it appears to me that he does not feel the same way. I cannot understand why – if he loves me like he says he does – I am not enough? Some people find monogamy impossible. They are just wired that way. In fact, monogamy is difficult for most people. I understand that trust is very important to you, yet right from the beginning you knew your husband was rarely just with you. You have stayed with him and had children, and there is clearly deep love between you so I am wondering why have you now reached a point where his non-monogamous lifestyle is insufferable? In reality, he is not going to change. Your choices are to separate, or stay with him and make the most of what is good between you – despite the torture. You would do well to consider what it is about you that binds you to this constant state of disappointment and longing. After you understand that, you may make the healthier choice. Pamela Stephenson Connolly is a US-based psychotherapist who specialises in treating sexual disorders. If you would like advice from Pamela on sexual matters, send us a brief description of your concerns to private.lives@theguardian.com (please don't send attachments). Each week, Pamela chooses one problem to answer, which will be published online. She regrets that she cannot enter into personal correspondence. Submissions are subject to our terms and conditions: see gu.com/letters-terms. Comments on this piece are premoderated to ensure discussion remains on topics raised by the writer. Please be aware there may be a short delay in comments appearing on the site. Continue reading... |
| Posted: 24 Jan 2022 10:00 PM PST She more than held her own against the likes of Olivia Colman in The Crown. Now the actor is the star of her own drama about a down-at-heel temp addicted to Instagram – a role that's a bit too familiar, she says The last time Erin Doherty was meant to do a big interview with the Guardian, she got out of it by faking an illness and sending her grandmother, an eccentric nun, along instead. Admittedly, Doherty was in character at the time, playing Princess Anne as a sarky 16-year-old in The Crown, annoyed with her father's plan to salvage the royals' reputation by showcasing her, his headstrong, no-nonsense daughter. Unfortunately, his headstrong, no-nonsense daughter would not comply. So it does feel quite satisfying to finally pin Doherty down, even if we are Zooming from our homes rather than tête-à-tête-ing amid the gilded majesty of Buckingham Palace, as the fictional journalist in the Netflix hit did. "I'm having a great time!" grins Doherty, her perkiness and high-pitched estuary accent so different from the deep, hyper-posh drawl she used for Anne. But perhaps we should get used to it – now that the 29-year-old is appearing in a new genre-bending BBC One drama called Chloe, in which she plays down-at-heel temp Becky, a woman who is – vocally, at least – much closer to the real Doherty. Continue reading... |
| Behind the label: how the US stitched up the Honduras garment industry Posted: 24 Jan 2022 10:00 PM PST Among the manifold complexities of the global supply chain, a simple principle holds: corporations will always go where their costs – and their responsibilities – can be kept to an absolute minimum 'It's like a little Puerto Rico – we're basically run by the US," said Allan, as we drove around San Pedro Sula, the second largest city in Honduras and the country's largest manufacturing centre one day. "Here there is more 'freedom'," he added, doing air quotes. Allan had spent most of his adult life working as a production manager for companies such as Gildan and Hanes, making socks and underwear for American bargain shoppers. All of this garment manufacture now takes place behind the gates of Honduras's export processing zones. When export processing zones (EPZs) proliferated in the 1980s and 90s, their boosters claimed that the employment opportunities inside them would lift up local economies. Allan's story showed the holes in that argument. After all, he wasn't just a low-paid garment worker: he was management. He had done everything right. And now, he said, he was moving to Canada. Continue reading... |
| Mother nature’s son: the exotic world of songwriter eden ahbez Posted: 25 Jan 2022 12:00 AM PST Long-haired and vegetarian, with no interest in money, eden ahbez, the writer of Nat King Cole's 1948 classic Nature Boy, is only now being recognised as the first of the hippies In late March 1948, the King Cole Trio released their second 78rpm single of the year. Already well known for crossover pop smashes such as (I Love You) for Sentimental Reasons, the trio were taking a flyer on something different for their next release. Initially buried on a B-side, Nature Boy was unlike anything else that they – or anyone else – had recorded. Cole sings the dreamy opening lyrics – "There was a boy / A very strange, enchanted boy" – with warm intimacy; the song ends with an eternal message: "The greatest thing you'll ever learn / Is just to love and be loved in return." The sides flipped, Nature Boy stayed at the top of the US pop charts for eight weeks in the spring of 1948, at a time of rapidly increasing tension: the start of the cold war and the anti-communist purge. For such a gentle, pacifistic song to have become the bestselling single of the year speaks to a sense of inchoate longing in the US at that time, barely three years after the second world war. Continue reading... |
| Apple AirPods 3 review: solid revamp with better fit and longer battery Posted: 24 Jan 2022 11:00 PM PST Third-gen of popular earbuds have improved design, shorter stalks and virtual surround sound Apple's AirPods need no introduction due to their ubiquity on the street, but is the third generation of the most popular wireless earbud actually an improvement? The new earbuds have been redesigned to resemble the Pro models with shorter stalks and a better fit. They don't block your ear canal, like the Pros though, just rest in place with all the benefits and disadvantages of an open fit, including an airy feel and complete lack of isolation from the outside world. Connectivity: Bluetooth 5.0, SBC, AAC, H1 chip Battery life: six hours playback (30 hours with case) Water resistance: IPX4 (splash resistant) Earbud dimensions: 30.8 x 18.3 x 19.2mm Earbud weight: 4.28g each Charging case dimensions: 46.4 x 54.4 x 21.4mm Charging case weight: 37.9g Case charging: Lightning, Qi wireless (MagSafe) Continue reading... |
| Posted: 25 Jan 2022 02:08 AM PST 7pm Dutch announcement expected to ease curbs despite high national caseload; New cases in Russia top 67,000 for first time
The UK's transport secretary Grant Shapps is on Sky News – he has been championing the government's decision to drop Covid testing and quarantine requirements for international travel from 11 February, which he pointed out was in time for half-term holidays in England. He said: It's been a long time coming, but when you go abroad there are no more tests to take when you come home. So you don't need to take a test before you leave, wherever you're coming from, to get here. You don't need to take a day two test, it's already gone. You can just come home, and the only thing we ask you to do is fill in a passenger locator form, which we are going to simplify. That's it. No quarantine. No testing. And all that cost would fall away. A couple of other small things, including children 12 to 15 being able to use the NHS Covid app to demonstrate that they've been vaccinated. That's where countries require that. And under-eighteens are exempt anyway. It's going to be a big change, much cheaper, and I'm really delighted. Continue reading... |
| Vaccines will always be our best weapon against Covid – here’s how to deploy them | Andrew Pollard Posted: 25 Jan 2022 02:00 AM PST Making vaccines available to all is crucial, but multiple boosters won't be necessary for most of us Since the pandemic began almost two years ago, the monster that is Covid-19 has visited every corner of Earth, killing more than 5.5 million people. But we have fought back with astounding speed and vigour, and the situation today is very different from that in early 2020. Ten billion vaccine doses will have been administered worldwide by early February. The Covax scheme has delivered 1bn vaccines to lower-income countries. As a result, global daily deaths from the virus are at their lowest point in more than a year. So, is the monster slain? No. Covid-19 will not just disappear. Only one human infectious disease has been eradicated from the planet – smallpox – and that took nearly 200 years. Polio is near to extinction, but it has taken a 70-year campaign. Covid-19 may be even more troublesome. Unlike those viruses, Covid-19 has been able to easily adapt to find its way around human immunity (whether from infection or vaccination) so that it can survive. Omicron, or its progeny, will probably be with us for decades to come. Prof Sir Andrew Pollard is director of the Oxford Vaccine Group, University of Oxford. He was the chief investigator for the clinical trials of the Oxford/AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine Continue reading... |
| One of my kids has gone vegetarian. Now the rest of the family want meat with everything Posted: 24 Jan 2022 11:00 PM PST For a fortnight we all ate black beans and squash lasagne but soon the bickering began. It's rule by the intolerant majority, writes Zoe Williams There's a book by Nassim Nicholas Taleb called Skin in the Game. It's wrong about many things, featuring an account of Prince Andrew's place in UK culture that was hilariously misjudged even before we realised what his place truly was, but has a theory about families and their eating habits that used to sound right. When one person restricts their diet – goes vegan or keto or whatever – the whole unit defaults to that restriction. It's just easier, when three people will eat anything, to build your menu around the one person who will only eat some things. The parable was supposed to illustrate a broader point, that the intolerant minority will always come to triumph over the more tolerant majority. Let's not dwell on his mental leap, because one of my kids just went vegetarian and I now know that even the starting block is untrue. For about a fortnight, we all went veggie and nobody noticed. It's not as if we were living a traditional, Harvester-buffet, meat-centrepiece, side-salad life before all this. I passed off black beans as a luxury food item, squash lasagne as classic Italian cuisine. Besides, meat substitutes have moved on a lot, and now they can make pretty much anything taste like pork so long as it has first been rolled into a ball. Zoe Williams is a Guardian columnist Continue reading... |
| I’ve seen the metaverse – and I don’t want it Posted: 25 Jan 2022 01:30 AM PST The tech world has been overtaken by the seductive idea of a virtual utopia, but what's on offer looks more like a late-capitalist technocratic nightmare I have spent large portions of my life in virtual worlds. I've played video games since I was six; as a millennial, I've lived online since adolescence; and I've been reporting on games and gaming culture for 16 years. I have been to Iceland for an annual gathering of the players of EVE Online, an online spaceship game whose virtual politics, friendships and rivalries are as real as anything that exists outside its digital universe. I've seen companies make millions, then billions from selling virtual clothes and items to players eager to decorate their virtual selves. I've encountered people who met in digital worlds and got married in the real one, who have formed some of their most significant relationships and had meaningful life experiences in, well … people used to call it cyberspace, but the current buzzword is "the metaverse". Ask 50 people what the metaverse means, right now, and you'll get 50 different answers. If a metaverse is where the real and virtual worlds collide, then Instagram is a metaverse: you create an avatar, curate your image, and use it to interact with other people. What everyone seems to agree on, however, is that it's worth money. Epic Games and the recently rebranded Facebook are investing billions a year in this idea. When Microsoft bought video game publisher Activision for $70bn last week, it was described as "a bet on the metaverse". Continue reading... |
| USA 1999 transformed women’s soccer. Can Beijing 2022 do the same for ice hockey? Posted: 25 Jan 2022 01:00 AM PST USA and Canada dominate the women's game but a long-lasting league has been difficult to establish. The upcoming Olympics are an opportunity for change In 1996, the US women's basketball team won Olympic gold in Atlanta, providing a solid foundation for two professional leagues. The WNBA, which had the backing of the NBA and better marketing, outlasted the ABL and continues to this day. After their victory on home soil at the 1999 World Cup, the US women's soccer team seized the spotlight and parlayed that attention into a professional league. That league collapsed, but waves of publicity over the next decade have yielded a solid fanbase determined to keep professional women's soccer running. Continue reading... |
| Australian Open quarter-finals: Ash Barty wins, Monfils v Berrettini – live! Posted: 25 Jan 2022 02:09 AM PST
*Barty 2-0 Pegula Barty begins with an ace and follows it with a service winner, then a good forehand return onto the baseline gives Pegula a sniff. A very minor sniff, a quick point followed by a booming ace down the T consolidate the break, and this is going exactly as expected. Barty 1-0 Pegula* Excellent start from Pegula, who reads Barty's forehand to hit a cross-court winner for 30-0. Then at 40-0 she opts to come in – not sure about that one, Jess old mate – and nets then, when Barty comes in she hooks a pass wide. From nowhere, she's put herself under pressure and shonuff when she's invited in again, she nets a simple forehand putaway. Barty is into this now and soon has advantage – Pegula's started missing first serves – then Barty surprisingly dumps a backhand. Already, this seems like a pivotal game, and a big forehand into the backhand corner allows Barty to clean up at the net, then Pegula nets a backhand and that's the break. She'll be wondering, already – and rightly so. Continue reading... |
| Egan Bernal in intensive care for spine surgery following training crash Posted: 25 Jan 2022 01:14 AM PST
Two-time Grand Tour winner Egan Bernal remains in intensive care after undergoing surgery on his spine following a serious crash suffered while training in his native Colombia. Bernal, 25, underwent multiple rounds of surgery following the accident, with doctors working to repair fractures in his right leg and kneecap as well as a collapsed lung. The 2019 Tour de France winner has since had further surgery to repair dislocated fractures in his spine. Continue reading... |
| ‘Nurdles are everywhere’: how plastic pellets ravaged a Sri Lankan paradise Posted: 24 Jan 2022 11:30 PM PST The country's golden beaches have turned black as debris released from a sunken ship continues to wreak environmental and economic havoc When Adnan Sheikh took his family on holiday to Sri Lanka last October, he booked them into a hotel for two weeks in Sarakkuwa beach, just off the coast from where the X-Press Pearl cargo ship caught fire and sank five months previously. Sheikh had been charmed by the online pictures of golden sandy beaches. But when the family arrived, it was a different story. Continue reading... |
| Boris Johnson clings on, the scandals keep coming Posted: 24 Jan 2022 07:00 PM PST Boris Johnson has been forced to order a new inquiry into allegations on Islamophobia in the Conservative party as his mutinous MPs await a verdict on Covid rule-breaking in Downing Street The new year has brought with it significant policy decisions for Boris Johnson: how to respond to a worsening crisis in Ukraine? How quickly to lift coronavirus restrictions after the current wave of infections? Should he go ahead with the plan to raise taxes in the face of an acute cost-of-living crisis? But all these questions have been drowned out by a more existential one for the prime minister: can his premiership survive the coming days? The Guardian's political correspondent, Peter Walker, tells Nosheen Iqbal that adding to the febrile atmosphere around the investigation into Covid rule-breaking in Downing Street, there are now new allegations dogging No 10. Continue reading... |
| ‘Depth of tradition’: Dior haute couture show celebrates India’s art and embroidery Posted: 24 Jan 2022 09:49 AM PST Vast tapestries formed the backdrop of the Dior spring-summer 2022 show at the Musée Rodin in Paris A Dior haute couture show in the gardens of the Musée Rodin is as Parisian as fashion gets. But this season, designer Maria Grazia Chiuri's heart was in India. "There is an idea that Indian embroidery is something cheap," said Chiuri before the show. "We talk a lot about the incredible ateliers we have here in the Avenue Montaigne. Continue reading... |
| Posted: 21 Jan 2022 10:00 PM PST Decades after she created one of the longest murals in the world, the Chicana artist and scholar is receiving long overdue mainstream recognition Judy Baca still recalls the day in the 1970s when the curator of an exhibit showcasing the work of emerging Los Angeles artists told her she couldn't possibly include Baca in the show. "These are only people touched by an angel," Baca remembers the woman saying about the the all-male group of artists she had selected. The message was clear: Baca was not worthy of a museum. Fifty years later, Baca's an internationally celebrated artist, whose large-scale works of public art have left an unmatched imprint on the artistic landscape of LA. And the Chicana muralist, scholar and activist is now receiving long overdue mainstream recognition. The Museum of Latin American Art (Molaa) in Long Beach, California, is running the first major retrospective on her work, and a major show at the Museum of Contemporary Art (Moca) in Los Angeles is planned for September. Continue reading... |
| Rachel Roddy’s recipe for Roman broccoli cutlets | A kitchen in Rome Posted: 24 Jan 2022 03:00 AM PST A rustic neighbourhood cafe is the inspritation for these fat wedges of crisp broccolo romanesco, floured, egged and breadcrumbed before being fried until golden If you asked for a caffè after lunch at Trattoria Zampagna, it would arrive a couple of minutes later on a metal tray from the bar next door. We never found out how the message was relayed, but assumed it was a knock on the wall or a secret bell. Then, when you asked for the bill, la signora Maria would come over with her pad, unclip the ballpoint from her housecoat pocket and do the sums between the oil and crumbs on a paper cloth. There was a time when we'd go to Trattoria Zampagna in San Paolo at least once a month. Occasionally it was my idea, but generally it was Vincenzo who pushed for lunch at Maria's. He loved everything about the place. Its form, function, frank attitude and the steady food from local ingredients. And the fact that it was always full of the mechanics who work under the arches farther down Via Ostiense. There was a menu, but between the daily specials and limited quantities, it was usually better just to let Maria tell you there were three portions of lasagne, two of breadcrumbed cutlets and one of pollo dorato left. UK readers: click to buy these ingredients from Ocado Continue reading... |
| Governments around the world used Covid to erode human rights – report Posted: 24 Jan 2022 10:00 PM PST Transparency International ranking reveals decade of standstill on tackling corruption, with many countries reaching historic lows in 2021 The global fight against corruption has been at a standstill for a decade, with 86% of countries either worsening or making no progress in tackling the problem, and with numerous governments accused of using the pandemic to erode human rights and democracy, a report has found. Transparency International's annual corruption ranking, published on Tuesday, also found countries that violate civil liberties consistently have low scores, underlining how failure to tackle corruption exacerbates human rights abuses and undermines democracy. Continue reading... |
| Gun that killed stuntman in Brisbane in 2017 should never have been on set, coroner finds Posted: 25 Jan 2022 12:25 AM PST 'Accumulation of errors' resulted in death of 28-year-old Johann Ofner during filming for Bliss N Eso hip-hop video A stuntman filming an underground poker game scene for a hip-hop music video was shot dead in 2017 with a sawn-off firearm that should never have been on set, a Brisbane coroner has found. "An accumulation of errors" resulted in the death of Johann Ofner, coroner Donald MacKenzie said in inquest findings handed down in Brisbane on Tuesday. Continue reading... |
| Fight Club gets a new ending in China - and the authorities win Posted: 24 Jan 2022 09:44 PM PST A new version of the movie available to Chinese audiences transforms the anarchist message of the original The ending to David Fincher's 1999 cult classic film Fight Club has been changed in China, sparking outrage among fans. Film fans in China noticed over the weekend that a version of the Brad Pitt and Edward Norton movie, newly available on streaming platform Tencent Video, was given a makeover that transforms the anarchist, anti-capitalist message which made the film a global hit. Continue reading... |
| Deal to ‘free’ Aboriginal flag welcomed – but questions remain Posted: 24 Jan 2022 11:43 PM PST Campaigners say it is a relief that private companies are now 'out of the picture' but want to know how future custodianship will operate
Campaigners who fought to "free" the Aboriginal flag have welcomed the federal government's $20m deal to buy out the private companies who held exclusive licences over its use and charged Aboriginal community groups for permission. But they say questions remain about its future custodianship, now that copyright rests with the commonwealth, and are asking exactly how much public money the non-Indigenous businesses were paid to relinquish their control. Continue reading... |
| Victory in court for indigenous women raped during Guatemala’s civil war Posted: 24 Jan 2022 04:15 PM PST Five men were sentenced to 30 years each in prison in a ruling hailed as vindication for survivors who have spent years fighting for justice Indigenous women raped by paramilitaries during Guatemala's brutal civil war have triumphed in court, when their aggressors were sentenced to 30 years each in prison. In a verdict hailed as a vindication for survivors who have spent years fighting for justice, a tribunal convicted five former paramilitary patrolmen of crimes against humanity for the rape of five Maya Achi women in the early 1980s. Continue reading... |
| Dutch university gives up Chinese funding due to impartiality concerns Posted: 24 Jan 2022 09:00 PM PST Vrije Universiteit will also return €250,000-plus it received in 2021 for rights centre that denied forced labour camps exist in Xinjiang A decision by a leading Dutch university to refuse all further Chinese funding for a controversial study centre has sparked fresh concern about Beijing's apparent attempts to influence debate at European educational institutions. Amsterdam's Vrije Universiteit (VU), the fourth largest university in the Netherlands, has said it will accept no further money from the Southwest University of Political Science and Law in Chongqing and repay sums it recently received. Continue reading... |
| Hands of Harlem: Roy DeCarava’s search for beauty – in pictures Posted: 24 Jan 2022 11:00 PM PST The photographer believed Black people were not portrayed in a 'serious and artistic way' and set out to change that with his painterly photographs
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| Heavy snow blankets Athens and Istanbul – in pictures Posted: 24 Jan 2022 05:41 PM PST A rare snowstorm has hit the capitals of Greece and Turkey, disrupting traffic, closing schools and coating the cities' tourists sites in white Continue reading... |
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