No room in the cemetery for Haiti dead | Haiti
Posted on June 10, 2024
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| Kary Bruening
Haiti This article is more than 14 years oldNo room in the cemetery for Haiti deadThis article is more than 14 years oldLast home of country's most famous families turns from place of respect and mourning into installation of horrorEven in death, there is no dignity for the abandoned people of Haiti. The Grand Cimetière, the last home of the country's most famous families, has in five days turned from a place of respect and mourning into an installation of horror.
[Read More]Soy, oat and almond drinks can still be called milk, US regulators say | US news
Posted on June 10, 2024
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| Chauncey Koziol
US news This article is more than 10 months oldSoy, oat and almond drinks can still be called milk, US regulators sayThis article is more than 10 months oldFDA says consumers are not confused if plant-based beverages use the term, after dairy producers call for crackdown on labeling
Soy, oat, almond and other drinks that bill themselves as milk can keep using the term, according to draft federal rules released on Wednesday.
[Read More]The greatest photos ever? Why the moon landing shots are artistic masterpieces
Posted on June 10, 2024
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| Aldo Pusey
‘A triumph of human consciousness in an otherwise mindless universe’ … Neil Armstrong’s double-horizon shot of Buzz Aldrin. Photograph: Nasa‘A triumph of human consciousness in an otherwise mindless universe’ … Neil Armstrong’s double-horizon shot of Buzz Aldrin. Photograph: NasaPhotographyFrom a spacesuited everyman to a golden-legged invader, the lunar images were astonishingly poetic works of art that captured humanity evolving before our very eyes. Can they ever be surpassed?
Fifty years ago this week, a former navy pilot created one of the most revolutionary artistic masterpieces of the 20th century, one we have yet to fully assimilate.
[Read More]The Knight of the Burning Pestle review 'A spirited romp by candlelight'
Posted on June 10, 2024
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| Aldo Pusey
TheatreReviewSam Wanamaker Playhouse, London
This boisterous production brings Francis Beaumont's 1607 burlesque of citizen drama and chivalric romance to life In pictures: The Knight of the Burning Pestle
This dashing new theatre has already proved itself ideally suited to dark Jacobean tragedy with The Duchess of Malfi. And, although it takes a while to adjust to watching comedy by candlelight, the space proves equally hospitable to Francis Beaumont's 1607 burlesque of citizen drama and chivalric romance.
[Read More]The Marriage Portrait by Maggie OFarrell review a dark Renaissance fable
Posted on June 10, 2024
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| Valentine Belue
Book of the dayMaggie O'FarrellReviewInspired by Robert Browning’s poem My Last Duchess, this follow-up to Hamnet mingles fact, portraiture and poetic fantasy for the simple tale of a girl forced into marriage
Here is a novel inspired by a poem describing a painting portraying a young woman who actually lived. Art and artifice are intrinsic to it. In Maggie O’Farrell’s imagining of 16th-century Italian courtly life, manners make the man, clothes make the woman, and an image is more durable than a person.
[Read More]Why are British women's breasts getting bigger?
Posted on June 10, 2024
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| Valentine Belue
The ObserverWomenIn recent years the average bra size has expanded from 34B to 36D. Lingerie retailers, dietitians and doctors reveal why – and explain how bra designers are staying ahead of the curveOdd things are happening in women's bras. In recent years, the average British bra size has jumped from 34B to 36D, which means that while women's backs have grown one size, breasts have jumped up two. Many department stores have increased the range of cup sizes on offer to meet the ballooning demand.
[Read More]Florence Pugh: Me, the next Kate Winslet? Thats ridiculous | Film
Posted on June 9, 2024
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| Jenniffer Sheldon
The ones to watch in 2018FilmInterviewFlorence Pugh: ‘Me, the next Kate Winslet? That’s ridiculous’Cath ClarkeAfter starring in Lady Macbeth, the Oxford-born actor has hopped from job to job, been taught to punch by The Rock and cast in a John Le Carré miniseries
Florence Pugh is listing her pinch-me highlights of 2017. Where to start? There was the taxi ride in Los Angeles, when she picked up an email saying that Richard Eyre wanted her for Cordelia in his BBC Two film, opposite Anthony Hopkins’ King Lear.
[Read More]Meet the banjo-playing congressional hopeful who wants to turn Montana blue
Posted on June 9, 2024
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| Aldo Pusey
Beyond the bubbleMontana special electionRob Quist supported Bernie Sanders for president, was called a ‘cowboy hat wearing hippie’ and now wants to flip Montana into Democratic territory
It’s mid-morning when Rob Quist slings his guitar across his chest and begins to strum. He’s crossed 175 miles of Montana for his first campaign stop of the day and stands tall, straight-backed and smiling out at a room of backcountry horsemen and women bedecked in cowboy hats and approving nods.
[Read More]Park Row, London W1: It reminds me of a failed Christmas grotto restaurant review
Posted on June 9, 2024
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| Aldo Pusey
Holy smoke, Batman: The hangar-sized Park Row, London W1. Photograph: Karen Robinson/The GuardianHoly smoke, Batman: The hangar-sized Park Row, London W1. Photograph: Karen Robinson/The GuardianGrace Dent on restaurantsFoodReview‘Even a hedge fund manager in an advanced state of refreshment would spot this as a massive, cynical waste of money’
In a hangar-sized yet semi-deserted Batman-themed restaurant, a letter is placed on my table while I await a £15 serving of citrus-cured salmon with a fingernail-sized portion of caviar.
[Read More]Rhiannon Giddens and Francesco Turrisi: Theyre Calling Me Home review big, beautiful laments
Posted on June 9, 2024
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| Jenniffer Sheldon
Folk album of the monthMusicReview(Nonesuch)
From lockdown in Ireland, Giddens and Turrisi range across folk traditions on exceptional covers and originals
Rhiannon Giddens’ new album with Francesco Turrisi, her partner in life as well as music, explores two subjects that occupied them (and, frankly, the rest of us) over the last tumultuous year. One is often comforting: home. The other is usually the opposite: death. But for this American and Italian, locked-down in their adopted Ireland, they found that exploring these subjects through songs from the perspective of their respective upbringings was uplifting.
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