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I Documented One Of The Most Dangerous Cities In America: My Hometown (28 Pics)

January 30, 2020January 30, 2020 NewsEditor#travel, Anthony presley, anthonypresley, apresley89, city, city photography, Culture, dangerous city, full-page, hometown, Memphis, most dangerous cities, neon, night, Photography, Progress, Tennessee, travel photography

reply Let me say, I’ve always had a complicated relationship with my hometown. It is a relationship filled with years of memories with family and friends. It was also a relationship where the good was mostly shadowed by traumatic events in my life while growing up in Memphis. Events that would long be etched into our history together and would keep me at arm’s length. Visits with those family and friends became less regular, and when I was present in body, I was absent in mind. I stopped paying attention…

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Saturday Night Live: Adam Driver hosts a third time and outdoes himself

January 27, 2020January 27, 2020 NewsEditorAdam Driver, Comedy, Culture, Saturday Night Live, Television & radio, TV comedy

Show takes on impeachment trial and for the first time in about two years delivers a great cold open Saturday Night Live returns from holiday hiatus with Republican Senators Mitch McConnell (Beck Bennett) and Susan Collins (Cecily Strong) discussing their desire for a fair Alan Dershowitz (former cast member Jon Lovitz). Despite their protestations, he compares Trump to some of his famous former clients: rey Epstein, Claus von Blow. Suddenly, Dershowitz suffers a heart attack and wakes up in Hell, where a star-struck Satan (Kate McKinnon) fawns over him and…

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Stellan Skarsgrd: I dont give advice to my children

January 19, 2020January 19, 2020 NewsEditorCulture, Film, Life and style, politics, Stella Creasy, Stellan SkarsgÃ¥rd

The actor, 68, tells James McMahon about dreaming of being a diplomat, smashing telephones with skill and the days before Marvel ruled the world I intended to become a diplomat. That was my dream. I didnt take acting seriously until I was 16 and got a role in a Swedish show that made me extremely famous right away. There were screaming girls, all that stuff. Id never had any girl take an interest in me before that. Suddenly being a diplomat didnt seem half as attractive as it had done.…

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Aaron Hernandez: how did a $40m NFL star become a convicted killer?

January 16, 2020January 16, 2020 NewsEditorCulture, Documentary, Factual TV, Netflix, nfl, Sport, Television, Television & radio, US sports

In a Netflix docuseries, the shocking true story of a much-loved athlete convicted of first-degree murder is placed under the microscope Even by the standards of Americas obsession with stories of spectacular falls from grace, the trajectory of Aaron Hernandez, a star New England Patriots football player turned convicted murderer, was particularly steep and unusually compelling a senseless, horrific collapse unfolding in real time. Three years before fake news became an ominous catch-all, Hernandezs summer 2013 arrest for the murder of Odin Lloyd at his mansion in North Attleborough, Massachusetts…

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Golden Globes: Tina Fey and Amy Poehler follow Ricky Gervais as hosts

January 12, 2020January 12, 2020 NewsEditorAmy Poehler, Awards and prizes, California, Comedy, Culture, Film, Golden Globes, Golden Globes 2020, ricky gervais, Tina Fey, US news, World news

Poehler poses as NBC publicist to make announcement after British comedian caused controversy with monologue Tina Fey and Amy Poehler will host the Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/film/2020/jan/11/golden-globes-tina-fey-amy-poehler-ricky-gervais-hosts

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The Clash’s 40 greatest songs ranked!

January 10, 2020January 10, 2020 NewsEditorCulture, Music, Pop and rock, Punk, Reggae, The Clash

Forty years on from the London Calling album, we rate the best tracks by the genre-hopping punks 40. 1977 (1977) A historical artefact, not for the proto-punk music, but because the lyrics epitomise the new waves perceived threat to the old guard. No Elvis, Beatles or the Rolling Stones / In 1977, sang Joe Strummer, hardly about to let his love of such pop greats get in the way of punks declaration of year zero. 39. White Riot (1977) Guitarist Mick Jones now dislikes the first Clash single, its lyrics…

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Vivian Suter: the rainforest-dwelling artist who paints with fish glue, dogs and mud

January 8, 2020January 8, 2020 NewsEditorAmericas, Art, Art and design, Climate change, Culture, Environment, Exhibitions, Guatemala, Life and style, Older people, painting, Society, Tate Liverpool, women, World news

She was ignored for decades, but now Suter has been rediscovered as a pioneering eco-artist. We meet her, and her 97-year-old collagist mum, in the wilds of Guatemala A large dog romps across a blue and white canvas, leaving a trail of brown paw prints. Oh well, shrugs Vivian Suter. Theyre part of the work now. I dont think anyone will mind. I realise Bonzo one of three Alsatian crossbreeds that shadow the artist wherever she goes in her Guatemalan home has just put the finishing touches to an artwork…

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Streaming: all eyes on the Netflix crown

January 5, 2020January 5, 2020 NewsEditorApple TV+, Culture, Film, Media, Netflix, Television, Television & radio, tv streaming

Apple TV+, Britbox and the long-awaited Disney+ are circling, but one streaming giant continues to reign supreme Last year was transitional for the streaming scene, at least in the UK: the promised avalanche of major new outlets to dent mixed reviews, punched through into public consciousness, while Apples plans to take on Netflix in the prestige film stakes got off to dropped from thewarily regarded in some quarters. Why pay a monthly subscription for the free-to-air content covered by my licence fee, runs the argument not helped by a The…

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Its Day of the Triffids for todays Britain, but with antidepressants as the monster

December 30, 2019December 30, 2019 NewsEditorCulture, Film, Health, Science fiction and fantasy films, Society, UK news

Controversial look at dependence on drugs in sci-fi film by Austrian director Jessica Hausner has divided critics An award-winning science-fiction thriller billed by critics as a modern Day of the Triffids takes a provocative approach to Britains growing dependence on mood-lifting chemicals and antidepressants. Little Joe, released in UK cinemas in February, and starring Ben Whishaw, Emily Beecham and Kerry Fox, has odd, disturbing story of a newly bred plant designed to spread joy. On set in a vast greenhouse laboratory, the acclaimed Austrian director Jessica Hausner first told her…

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The decade that broke me! Could anyone keep up with TV’s golden age?

December 28, 2019December 28, 2019 NewsEditorCulture, Television, Television & radio

Forget prestige television the real glory days were back when there was nothing on. No wonder people fib constantly about what they watch. Heres how to do it convincingly Speaking as someone who writes about television for a living, the 2010s have absolutely broken me. It all used to be so simple. There were five channels, three of them good, and you watched whatever they decided to show you. It didnt matter if it was rubbish, either. Soap operas. Game shows. So many documentaries about the British Transport Police youd…

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Moral of the story: 2019’s boldest culture asked what it means to be good

December 28, 2019December 28, 2019 NewsEditorBig Little Lies, Books, Booksmart, Can You Ever Forgive Me?, Culture, Film, Fleabag, Greta Gerwig, Kanye West, Knives Out, Little Women, Music, Television, Television & radio

At a time when deceit is trumping decency, artists from Kanye West to Greta Gerwig and Phoebe Waller-Bridge have taken it upon themselves to pose questions about virtue and privilege In Little Women, a haughty publisher dismisses Jo Marchs stories as unfashionable. Morals dont sell nowadays, he tells the aspiring author. People want to be amused, not preached at. Hopefully the statute of limitations has expired on spoiling a 151-year-old story: March an avatar for her creator, Louisa May Alcott proves him wrong. As has Gerwig, reviving Little Women in…

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Clive James remembered by John Simpson

December 17, 2019December 17, 2019 NewsEditorClive James, Culture, Poetry, Television, Television & radio

The BBC world affairs editor on a charismatic wit and gifted poet who elevated British life with his televisual panache He came into my life in the same way, I imagine, as he came into everyone elses: with a joke and a certain amount of bounce, but also with a degree of authority that meant you took him seriously, even while you were laughing. Jesus, what do you do here put on Wagner? It was Clives, and my, last year at Cambridge University, and I was living in a medieval…

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The 50 best films of 2019 in the US: 41-50

December 4, 2019December 4, 2019 NewsEditorApollo 11, bombshell, Brad Pitt, Comedy films, Culture, Documentary films, Drama films, Eddie Murphy, Film, Horror films, Period and historical films, Science fiction and fantasy films, us, World cinema

We begin our countdown of the best movies released in the US this year with a giant leap for mankind, a triumphant Eddie Murphy, and a vicious take on the Fox News scandal 41 Apollo 11 A front row seat for the moon landings? Few could resist this astonishing documentary featuring previously unseen footage, released for the 50th anniversary of Neil Armstrongs lunar walk. Read the full review. 42 Ray & Liz Richard Billingham mined his own family for this bleak debut, capturing the claustrophobic loneliness of a couple cut…