Poem of the week: Weep you no more, sad fountains by John Dowland
Posted on May 6, 2024
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| Jenniffer Sheldon
Carol Rumens's poem of the weekPoetrySong by Elizabeth I’s court musician is a lullaby in praise of sleep – but might it also be an elegy written ahead of time?
Weep you no more, sad fountains
Weep you no more, sad fountains;
What need you flow so fast?
Look how the snowy mountains
Heaven’s sun doth gently waste.
But my sun’s heavenly eyes
View not your weeping,
That now lie sleeping
[Read More]The Monk of Mokha by Dave Eggers review smell the coffee
Posted on May 6, 2024
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| Chauncey Koziol
Book of the dayDave EggersReviewDave Eggers’s remarkable tale of a Yemeni immigrant chasing the American dream offers hope in the age of TrumpThe culture war dividing the US is being fought over the relevance of empathy. On the one hand a president and a ruling party that denies the imaginative possibility – or importance – of trying to walk in another’s shoes; on the other, a liberal tradition that celebrates America as the all-born-equal nation and believes understanding is synonymous with compassion.
[Read More]Welfare | Politics | The Guardian
Posted on May 6, 2024
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| Valentine Belue
Letters: Stephen Butler, Carolyn Sutton, Debbie Cameron respond to benefits changes in the autumn statement. Plus a letter from a reader who highlights the structural difficulties disabled people face in the workplace
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A new rising: the County Durham castle undergoing a transformation
Posted on May 5, 2024
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| Chauncey Koziol
HeritageRaby Castle is set for one of the UK’s most ambitious stately home projects of recent years to create a visitor destination unlike any other
“It is Walt Disney meets Buckingham Palace,” says Lady Kate Barnard in the spectacularly showy Octagon drawing room of Raby Castle. “Barbie would love it.”
You get a sense Barnard is not such a fan. “It would have been so beautiful,” she sighs. “It would have been a round room and unfortunately when [the Victorian architect William] Burn came in 1840 he did … this.
[Read More]Arthur Calder-Marshall, the forgotten author Orson Welles almost made famous
Posted on May 5, 2024
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BooksA gifted writer blessed with impeccable connections, he has nonetheless remained in the shadows, eclipsed by accidents and grander egos
The Way to Santiago (1941) is a heady hybrid of spy thriller, murder mystery, gun-toting adventure and sleek noir, playing out against the dusty landscapes of South America in the immediate aftermath of the Spanish civil war and the start of the second world war. It follows the hapless agency writer, Englishman Jimmy Lamson, as he attempts to find the murderer of a fellow press man, hoping to find his own journalistic integrity along the way.
[Read More]Extraordinary review help, my bum has become a 3D printer!
Posted on May 5, 2024
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| Chauncey Koziol
TV reviewScience fiction TVReviewEncanto meets Derry Girls in a fun fantasy series where everyone – apart from its lead character – has a superpower. Although some of the abilities are very mundane …
Extraordinary (Disney+) is Disney’s Encanto for grownups. Or Derry Girls with superpowers. There’s a bit of The Boys’ cynicism in there, too, and a dash of Sex Education’s youthful exuberance. Twenty-five-year-old Jen (Máiréad Tyers) is powerless – literally – in a world in which everyone acquires a superheroic skill when they turn 18.
[Read More]How we made Stanley Kubrick's Full Metal Jacket | Stanley Kubrick
Posted on May 5, 2024
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| Valentine Belue
‘Stanley never said which part I was auditioning for’ … Matthew Modine as Joker. Photograph: Alamy Stock Photo‘Stanley never said which part I was auditioning for’ … Matthew Modine as Joker. Photograph: Alamy Stock PhotoHow we madeStanley KubrickInterviewHow we made Stanley Kubrick's Full Metal JacketDamon Wise‘Instead of Vietnam, we went to Beckton gasworks. All we had to do was put signs on it and blow it up’
Matthew Modine, who played Private JT ‘Joker’ DavisI received the script through my mail slot in New York with a letter from Stanley introducing himself: “Hi, my name is Stanley Kubrick.
[Read More]Lupe Ontiveros, 69, dies of liver cancer | Film
Posted on May 5, 2024
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Film This article is more than 11 years oldLupe Ontiveros, 69, dies of liver cancerThis article is more than 11 years oldSelena co-star Jacob Vargas pays tribute to Mexican-American actor's 'great contribution to film and TV'Lupe Ontiveros, the Mexican-American star of As Good as it Gets and the TV show Desperate Housewives, has died of liver cancer. She was 69.
Born Guadalupe Moreno, Ontiveros's Hollywood career spanned four decades and included roles in the 80s classic The Goonies and the 2002 film Real Women Have Curves, for which she won a special jury prize at the Sundance film festival.
[Read More]Sylvia Patterson: The famous can be fairly obnoxious | Music
Posted on May 5, 2024
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| Jenniffer Sheldon
‘The famous want the spotlight. I’m naturally averse to it’: Sylvia Patterson at Club Reflex, central London. Photograph: Suki Dhanda/The Observer‘The famous want the spotlight. I’m naturally averse to it’: Sylvia Patterson at Club Reflex, central London. Photograph: Suki Dhanda/The ObserverThe ObserverMusicInterviewSylvia Patterson: ‘The famous can be fairly obnoxious’Barbara EllenThe music journalist’s frank memoir, chronicling her time at Smash Hits, details encounters with the likes of Prince and Amy Winehouse… and a few class AsAfter three decades of interviewing pop stars, Sylvia Patterson is “deeply uncomfortable” with it happening to her.
[Read More]The best punk singles record covers in pictures | Books
Posted on May 5, 2024
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| Kary Bruening
The best punk singles record covers – in pictures Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email Released next week, Punk 45: The Singles Cover Art of Punk 1976-80 is a collection of punk's seven-inch sleeves, whose distinctively DIY designs encapsulated the attitude at the heart of the musical genre. Co-edited by Jon Savage and Stuart Baker, the book includes interviews with some of the designers whose use of montage, Day-Glo colours and hand lettering created the punk aesthetic.
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