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The week in audio: People Who Knew Me; Happy Hour; Whose Truth Is It Anyway?; This Cultural Life:…
People Who Knew Me (BBC 5 Live) | BBC Sounds Happy Hour (BBC Radio 4) | BBC SoundsWhose Truth Is It Anyway? (BBC Radio 4) | BBC SoundsThis Cultural Life: Nick Cave (BBC Radio 4) | BBC SoundsHere’s a classy drama series: excellently…
PenFed Credit Union and San Diego Wave FC Partner for Military Appreciation Night
The May 26 Game vs. Portland Thorns Honored Active and Retired Service MembersTYSONS, Va., May 27, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- PenFed Credit Union, the nation's second-largest federal credit union, served as the presenting partner of the San…
Joshua Jaswon Octet: Polar Waters review – a soaring blend of jazz and poetry | Jazz
London-born alto saxophonist Joshua Jaswon was so appalled by Brexit that he moved to Berlin to pursue his ambitions as band leader and composer. In 2020 he delivered Silent Sea, a moving commentary on ecology and populism, played with…
On my radar: Arlo Parks’s cultural highlights | Arlo Parks
The singer and songwriter Arlo Parks was born Anaïs Oluwatoyin Estelle Marinho in 2000 and raised in Hammersmith, west London. Known for her reflective, soulful pop music, she released her first single, Cola, in November 2018 and won the…
The Little Mermaid review – bland but good-natured Disney remake | Family films
News that Disney’s live-action(ish) remake of its 1989 animated hit The Little Mermaid would star African American musician and actor Halle Bailey provoked the racist #NotMyAriel hashtag, with Fox News-fed “replacement theory” wingnuts…
Shane Meadows: ‘This is as scary a time as I can remember’ | Shane Meadows
There are two types of love: the one you chase and the one you earn. We all live for that first flush of love, but when you’ve had children with somebody, you start to grow old with them, and still really fancy them – it’s the golden…
The week in classical: Wozzeck; Don Giovanni – Christian Gerhaher and Anja Kampe thrill in five-star…
Spinning in its own orbit, as it seems on every fresh encounter, Alban Berg’s Wozzeck (1925) resembles no other opera. Voices sing, speak, shout in myriad ways, exactingly specified by the composer. The score flickers through every style, a…
Kevin McCarthy’s Thoughts on Other Ceilings
Kevin McCarthy is obviously a big fan of the debt ceiling. (Or at least the Cyrano who writes Kevin McCarthy’s thoughts is.) Little-known fact: that’s not the only ceiling that Kevin McCarthy has an opinion about. Read on to find out…
Notes on Losing | The New Yorker
A day after my forty-third birthday, I met a friend at a municipal tennis court in Berkeley. The Bay Area had just suffered through a few weeks of wind and rain, which meant that tennis addicts like me had to squeeze whatever play we could…
War has shown Ukrainians – and the rest of us – why museums are so important for telling our stories…
The violence of war, and all its horror, has a clarifying effect on what really matters in every aspect of life. In the immediate aftermath of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, those caught up in the terrifying events found that…