Saffron Burrows: I was raised to feel like I could love who I wanted | Culture

 Posted on April 17, 2024  |  10 minutes  |  2077 words  |  Jenniffer Sheldon

CultureInterviewSaffron Burrows: ‘I was raised to feel like I could love who I wanted’Martha HayesThe actor and activist, who stars in Netflix hit You, on her teenage years as an anti-racist campaigner, modelling in Paris, #MeToo and the ‘sexist’ films she turned down When Saffron Burrows became an actor, there were scripts she had to throw straight out. Her prospective characters “were always running for their life in high heels”, she says. [Read More]

This way of farming is really sexy: the rise of regenerative agriculture

 Posted on April 17, 2024  |  6 minutes  |  1173 words  |  Jenniffer Sheldon

FarmingOn the Isle of Wight Hollie Fallick and Francesca Cooper are part of a movement to bring tired and depleted soil back to life – and boost food security Hollie Fallick looks over Brading on the Isle of Wight, at a patchwork of fields bordered by ancient oaks, which stretches to the Solent. “We still have to pinch ourselves every day,” says the 30-year-old, as she surveys the 50 hectares (125 acres) she farms with her best friend, Francesca Cooper, 34. [Read More]

Thursday briefing: Vice took millions from Saudi Arabia but has its deal backfired? | Vice Media

 Posted on April 17, 2024  |  11 minutes  |  2132 words  |  Kary Bruening

First Edition newsletterVice Media This article is more than 5 months oldThursday briefing: Vice took millions from Saudi Arabia – but has its deal backfired?This article is more than 5 months oldIn today’s newsletter: As the upstart media company faces bankruptcy, it has developed strong ties with the country, leaving some to question what compromises companies are willing to make to do business Sign up here for our daily newsletter, First Edition [Read More]

You aint my muvva! the 15 most incredible soap storylines of all time

 Posted on April 17, 2024  |  5 minutes  |  886 words  |  Aldo Pusey

ShortcutsSoap operaIt’s been suggested that soaps are in crisis because their ratings-chasing storylines have become too ridiculous. But it’s the unbelievable plot twists that we watch them for According to the writer and broadcaster Mark Lawson, it’s time for soaps to tone things down. The likes of Coronation Street and EastEnders are in crisis, he says in the latest issue of the Radio Times, because they are “[piling] catastrophe after crisis on the best-known characters” in order to boost flagging ratings. [Read More]

20 of the worlds creepiest museums

 Posted on April 16, 2024  |  8 minutes  |  1701 words  |  Valentine Belue

Top 20sTravelSome of our worst fears are explored at these bizarre museums. They’ll give you the creeps for Halloween … or any other time of year Vent Haven Museum of Ventriloquism, Fort Mitchell, KentuckyDespite being a familiar horror movie character, the ventriloquist’s dummy, with its clunky mouth, heavy eyelids and twisting head wasn’t meant to be fearful when it was invented for 18th century music hall entertainment. This museum houses the largest collection of ventriloquial figures and memorabilia in the world. [Read More]

Backlash after Fox Sports reporter admits making up coaches quotes | Media

 Posted on April 16, 2024  |  4 minutes  |  788 words  |  Chauncey Koziol

Media This article is more than 2 months oldBacklash after Fox Sports reporter admits making up coaches’ quotesThis article is more than 2 months oldCharissa Thompson, 41, tells podcast she invented conversations with NFL coaches if she failed to get quotes in time The Fox Sports reporter Charissa Thompson is facing a backlash after admitting to lying in her job and making up fake interviews during her sideline reporting. In an episode of Barstool Sports’s Pardon My Take podcast, Thompson, 41, said she invented quotes from coaches in her NFL sideline reports for fear of losing her job. [Read More]

Fully automated luxury communism

 Posted on April 16, 2024  |  6 minutes  |  1189 words  |  Kary Bruening

Technology and innovationGuardian sustainable businessSupporters believe fully automated luxury communism is an opportunity to realise a post-work society, where machines do the heavy lifting and employment as we know it is a thing of the past At a time when robots crowd factory lines, algorithms steer cars and smart screens litter the checkout aisles, automation is the new spectre. The robots, they say, are coming for our jobs. Let them, reply the luxury communists. [Read More]

Irans axis of resistance is a potent coalition but a risky strategy

 Posted on April 16, 2024  |  5 minutes  |  866 words  |  Chauncey Koziol

The ObserverIranExplainerTehran’s allies help it project power – and risk causing a wider conflagration in the Middle East The “axis of resistance” is a network of autonomous militant Islamist groups through which Iran can project power, determine the course of events and deter attack by Israel or the US. The axis is so central to the current conflict that on 7 October, as the bloody attack on Israel was still under way, Hamas’s military commander called on the network to join the struggle. [Read More]

It was giving me a hug: video captures rare giant octopus encounter | Canada

 Posted on April 16, 2024  |  4 minutes  |  723 words  |  Jenniffer Sheldon

Canada This article is more than 1 year old‘It was giving me a hug’: video captures rare giant octopus encounterThis article is more than 1 year oldCanadian diver captures footage of the cephalopod drawing closer and closer until it fully embraces her For outsiders, scuba diving in the frigid waters of the northern Pacific can seem daunting: limbs quickly go numb without the right equipment, and unlike the sparkling blue of the tropics, the water has a gloomy, greenish tint. [Read More]

Saint-Sans: Henry VIII review operatic rarity of epic proportions

 Posted on April 16, 2024  |  3 minutes  |  437 words  |  Jenniffer Sheldon

Classical musicReviewMichael Chioldi/Ellie Dehn/Hilary Ginther/Odyssey Opera/Gil Rose (Odyssey Opera, four CDs) Seekers of operatic rarities take note, this three-hour-plus recording is capably sung with grandeur Camille Saint-Saëns composed 13 operas, but only one of them, Samson et Dalila, is now part of the regular repertory. However, during the composer’s lifetime at least, Henry VIII, first seen in Paris in 1883, rivalled Samson’s popularity; there were performances across Europe, and even though it has only been staged a handful of times since Saint-Saëns’s death in 1921, it remains the most often performed of his other operas. [Read More]