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The Crown season 6 review: A ‘clumsy, predictable’ end to the Royal Family drama
As Netflix’s epic Royal Family drama The Crown reaches its dramatic final series, the show, once ‘a joy’, has failed to right the terrible flaws of the last season, writes Caryn James. In its sixth and final season, The Crown doesn’t waste a second in getting to its most obvious, looming event. The first episode…
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Louisiana Cities are the Birthplace of Some Famous Celebrities
Louisiana is known for so many things like the outdoors, food, music, and culture. What a lot of people forget about here is that Louisiana is the birthplace of many major celebrities. Having lived here my whole life, I was unaware that some of my favorite celebrities were born right here in “The Boot.” While…
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Conservation, environmental jobs lead growth in self-employed women
Research by money.co.uk has revealed the sectors that have seen the biggest increase in females working for themselves in the past three years. Conservation and environmental jobs have seen the largest rise, with a 420% surge in self-employed women. In 2021, there were just 500 females registered as sole traders or limited companies in this…
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Grace Wales Bonner Has Set Her Sights Beyond Fashion
Grace Wales Bonner’s approach to fashion can sometimes feel more like that of an academic rather than a designer. Her collections for Wales Bonner, the brand she started in 2015, are informed by dazzlingly intensive research spanning critical theory, music, literature, history and mysticism. With a particular focus on Black identity and conversations about race,…
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‘Break free from the constraints!’: how we see beauty
Leslie Fratkin: Woman Wearing Big White Wig, New York Leslie Fratkin: ‘I encountered this woman, who had the most mesmerising eyes I’d ever seen and a massive, tousled white wig. I asked if I could take her photograph. She hesitated, but eventually, in a barely audible voice, granted permission. I snapped a few shots, noticing…
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WHO declares loneliness a ‘global public health concern’
The World Health Organization (WHO) has declared loneliness to be a pressing global health threat, with the US surgeon general saying that its mortality effects are equivalent to smoking 15 cigarettes a day. WHO has launched an international commission on the problem – led by the US surgeon general, Dr Vivek Murthy, and the African…
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UK students serve healthy, balanced meals to community through Meals on Wings
LEXINGTON, Ky. (Nov. 16, 2023) — At the University of Kentucky Campus Kitchen, a remarkable initiative — Meals on Wings — is taking flight, bringing nourishment and community spirit to those who need it most. Meals on Wings is not just about food, it’s about bridging gaps and fostering a sense of unity within the community.…
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Hot Picks 11.16.23
Jules Tavernier’s “Indian Sun Dance,” published in Harper’s Weekly in 1875. Tavernier, a French-American painter, founded an art colony in Monterey in the 1870s. Author and historian Claudine Chalmers shares more at MIIS on Thursday, Nov. 16. c/o CLAUDINE CHALMERS Thursday, Nov. 16 Histoires de Vie Decades ago, when Claudine Chalmers immigrated to California from…
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Arts Listings: Week of 11/16/2023
Some classes, exhibits and events are available exclusively online. All events are subject to change and cancellation; always verify with venue and/or organizer. OPENING THEATER HAY FEVER Sunday, Nov. 19, 6 p.m. The Conejo Players Readers Theatre offers up a staged reading of this Noel Coward comedy of manners about a self-absorbed and eccentric family…
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Robotics ‘Revives’ a Long-Extinct Starfish Ancestor
Despite incredible advances in modern genomic research, science is nowhere near being able to clone long-extinct animals like the fictional ones in Jurassic Park. Even relatively recent extinctions remain enormously difficult to overcome. An innovative branch of research that joins robotics with paleontology, however, does let scientists bring back long-gone creatures in a different way:…