Like youre in a horror movie: pollution leaves New Zealand wetlands irreversibly damaged

 Posted on April 25, 2024  |  7 minutes  |  1441 words  |  Valentine Belue

New ZealandEcologists say some bodies of water may already have passed the tipping points from which they may never recover As David Klee nosed his boat out into the channels of Whangamarino, he saw the birds were dying. Hundreds were already dead, floating, the sheen of their feathers dulling in the scum near the banks of the river. Others, he could tell, would be dead soon: flocks that should have been sent flapping in alarm by the boat’s passage sat placid, unmoving in the water. [Read More]

My TV Christmas cracker: This is England '88 | Television

 Posted on April 25, 2024  |  2 minutes  |  388 words  |  Kary Bruening

My TV Christmas crackerTelevisionMy TV Christmas cracker: This is England '88The tone is still 80s bleak, but This is England '88 is not without its lighter momentsInterview: This is England '88's Joe Gilgun This year, the TV run-up to Christmas Day seems to be filled with more spurious festive specials than ever. Take your pick from The Only Way Is Essexmas (well-jel bells?) to Deal Or No Deal: The Panto (Noel " [Read More]

Richard Ney | Movies | The Guardian

 Posted on April 25, 2024  |  3 minutes  |  438 words  |  Chauncey Koziol

MoviesObituaryRichard NeyIn 1970, the actor-turned-writer and investment expert Richard Ney, who has died aged 87, published his acclaimed The Wall Street Jungle. Its theme, that there was "more sheer larceny per square foot" on the floor of the New York stock exchange "than any place else in the world," so scandalised the New York Times that it never reviewed the book, despite its 11 months on the newspaper's bestseller list. [Read More]

Twin Peaks at 30: some damn fine outfits but what do they mean?

 Posted on April 25, 2024  |  6 minutes  |  1190 words  |  Kary Bruening

FashionIt’s three decades since David Lynch’s groundbreaking TV show hit our screens, and the character’s clothes have aged as well as the drama Twin Peaks at 30: the show that changed television Twin Peaks – the series that brought us damn fine coffee, the Log Lady and, for some, a sudden distrust of owls – celebrates its 30th anniversary this week. Alongside a gripping plot centred on murdered schoolgirl Laura Palmer and Lynchian weirdness such as the red room, the series will always be remembered for its style. [Read More]

Andriy Shevchenko: I want to share with the world what Ukrainian people are feeling | Soccer

 Posted on April 24, 2024  |  12 minutes  |  2489 words  |  Chauncey Koziol

SoccerInterviewAndriy Shevchenko: ‘I want to share with the world what Ukrainian people are feeling’Donald McRaeThe former striker discusses visiting hospitals in his homeland, his push to raise funds and Champions League hopes for Milan “It was an incredible, emotional moment for me to spend time with her,” Andriy Shevchenko says as he describes meeting a little Ukrainian girl called Maryna last month. The most famous former footballer from Ukraine, who won the Ballon d’Or in 2004 and the Champions League with Milan before he also coached his country at Euro 2020, pauses as he reflects on a simple encounter where he kicked a football back and forth in hospital with the six-year-old. [Read More]

Cosmo Jarvis: With acting, you come in, you blow everything youve got | Drama films

 Posted on April 24, 2024  |  8 minutes  |  1567 words  |  Jenniffer Sheldon

The ObserverDrama filmsInterviewCosmo Jarvis: ‘With acting, you come in, you blow everything you’ve got’Rebecca NicholsonAfter switching career from music to acting, Cosmo Jarvis looks set to have a big year in 2020 with four new films, including the acclaimed Calm With Horses Cosmo Jarvis has deflated slightly since he finished work on Calm With Horses. Director Nick Rowland adapted the film from a short story by County Mayo writer Colin Barrett, and when it toured the festival circuit, many critics labelled it an extraordinary debut for the film-maker and a breakout performance for Jarvis, who plays Arm, a former boxer turned gangland enforcer, with heartbreaking complexity. [Read More]

Deanes Meat Locker, Belfast: They have the good stuff restaurant review

 Posted on April 24, 2024  |  7 minutes  |  1450 words  |  Aldo Pusey

Jay Rayner on restaurantsFoodReviewAt this excellent steak house, great cooking and unstuffy service show the way forward Deanes Meat Locker, 28-40 Howard Street, Belfast BT1 6PF (028 9033 1134). Starters £4.50-£14.50, mains £18.95-£39.50, desserts £7.50, wines from £24.95 Nothing lasts forever. Just ask Michael Deane. Next Friday will see the last service at Deanes Eipic, the grand, crisp-tableclothed restaurant that he opened in 1997 and which has held one of Belfast’s few Michelin stars for much of the intervening 25 years, and never had an apostrophe. [Read More]

Fatoumata Diawara: London Ko review exuberance rules

 Posted on April 24, 2024  |  2 minutes  |  235 words  |  Chauncey Koziol

The ObserverFatoumata DiawaraReview(Wagram) With star guests to the fore and Damon Albarn co-producing, the stylish Malian singer-songwriter speaks her mind on her wide-ranging third studio album The Malian singer Fatoumata Diawara has always been about the future. The image of her toting an electric guitar – which she has said is a first for a female Malian singer – tells you as much, as does her new video, Nsera, a dazzling parade of Afro-futurist images with “Fatou” in assorted stunning costumes. [Read More]

Icelands burning wine: a taste of the black death

 Posted on April 24, 2024  |  2 minutes  |  285 words  |  Aldo Pusey

The foodie travellerIceland holidaysBrennivín was traditionally drunk to wash down rotting shark. Now this caraway-infused aquavit is firing up cocktails from Reykjavik to Brooklyn Brennivín, Iceland’s signature drink, was never intended as a slow-sipping tipple. The caraway-spiced aquavit’s name translates literally as “burning wine”, and the colourless 37.5% ABV spirit looks more like vodka than a mellow aperitif. Traditionally, brennivín was shot quickly at the pagan midwinter festival Þorrablót, for the purpose of washing down hákarl – a rotting shark speciality that American Anthony Bourdain once said was the worst thing he’d ever put in his mouth. [Read More]

Sen Day-Lewis obituary | Newspapers

 Posted on April 24, 2024  |  3 minutes  |  470 words  |  Kary Bruening

Other livesNewspapersObituarySeán Day-Lewis obituaryMy husband, Seán Day-Lewis, who has died aged 90, felt himself a journalist from an early age. As a small boy in Lyme Regis, Dorset, he turned his back on the sea and read the newspaper. He later wrote for several, including the Daily Telegraph for nearly three decades, and called himself “a hack”. After he retired to Devon, he wrote letters to newspapers instead. Seán was the elder son of the Irish-born poet Cecil Day-Lewis, who later became poet laureate, and his first wife, Mary (nee King). [Read More]