Adam Sandler film The Ridiculous Six in racism row as Native Americans quit set | Adam Sandler

 Posted on May 31, 2024  |  3 minutes  |  460 words  |  Jenniffer Sheldon

Adam Sandler This article is more than 8 years oldAdam Sandler film The Ridiculous Six in racism row as Native Americans quit setThis article is more than 8 years oldAbout a dozen actors walked off set of Sandler’s first Netflix film over jokes about Native American culture, women and names About a dozen Native American actors have walked off the set of an Adam Sandler spoof western in protest at its depiction of Apache culture, including characters with names like Beaver’s Breath and No Bra. [Read More]

Aztec manuscript under the microscope

 Posted on May 31, 2024  |  8 minutes  |  1529 words  |  Jenniffer Sheldon

FranceFrench researchers try to date the Codex Borbonicus, one of the most treasured Mesoamerican historical documentsIt was May 1826 and France was celebrating the first anniversary of the coronation of Charles X. French troops had occupied Spain; Mexico had gained its independence and Latin America was in turmoil. But, sitting in his office in the library of the National Assembly, deputy-curator Pierre-Paul Druon was feeling pleased. For the past 30 years this former Benedictine monk had laboured to track down rare works and add them to the 12,000 items inherited from the French Revolution and now entrusted to parliament. [Read More]

Emancipation to The Amazing Maurice: the seven best films to watch on TV this week

 Posted on May 31, 2024  |  5 minutes  |  886 words  |  Valentine Belue

The seven best films to watch on TV this weekTelevision & radioWill Smith is impressively fierce in a thriller based on the true life of a Louisiana slave, while Terry Pratchett’s retelling of the Pied Piper story is a quick-witted delight Pick of the weekEmancipationAntoine Fuqua’s tense historical thriller is based on the true story of an escaped Louisiana slave, whose photograph showing his scarred back became a key document in the abolitionist movement of the mid-1800s. [Read More]

Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone by Benjamin Stevenson review irksomely quirky whodunnit

 Posted on May 31, 2024  |  5 minutes  |  1045 words  |  Valentine Belue

Australian book reviewsCrime fictionReviewThis much-hyped crime novel has been marketed as Knives Out meets The Thursday Murder Club – but it is excruciatingly self-referential Benjamin Stevenson has a cinephile buddy who seeks out spoilers. Once an ending is good and ruined, he can focus on the film. Stevenson’s new novel was inspired by this back-to-front tactic. “I thought: ‘what if I spoiled the entire book on the first page,” the author explained in a recent interview, “can I build a crime novel out of it? [Read More]

Marvellous Milos: the Greek island full of fresh flavours | Greek Islands holidays

 Posted on May 31, 2024  |  7 minutes  |  1489 words  |  Aldo Pusey

Bright spot … fishermans’ cottages in the village of Klyma, near Tripiti, Milos. Photograph: Getty ImagesAthenians have fallen for the thriving but unpretentious food scene on this Cyclades island. We pick six of the best places to eat between trips to the beach by Amanda DardanisThe word-of-mouth buzz about O Hamos, a family-run taverna on the Greek island of Milos, had been so loud that I’d heard it in Athens. So I decided to discover it, over a late lunch, for myself. [Read More]

Sherpa families angry and fearful eight months on from Everest disaster | Nepal

 Posted on May 31, 2024  |  5 minutes  |  1040 words  |  Kary Bruening

Nepal This article is more than 9 years oldSherpa families angry and fearful eight months on from Everest disasterThis article is more than 9 years oldStruggling families of guides killed in April face further barriers and hardship despite compensation process finally starting Sherpa guide families – in pictures Pasang Lhama Sherpa wakes up her five-year-old son from his corner bed in her dimly lit teahouse in Dingboche, north-east Nepal. With only a small cooking stove to warm the room, the pair exhale crisp clouds of condensation as she layers him in clothes to start the day. [Read More]

Show Me The Body's alternative guide to New York

 Posted on May 31, 2024  |  8 minutes  |  1544 words  |  Valentine Belue

New York city guideCMJ 2015As the CMJ Music Marathon kicks off, genre-defying band Show Me The Body offer their guide to the city they grew up in and have seen change drastically This week, New York City becomes a playground for music industry tourists seeking to discover bands about to ‘break through’. This is the CMJ Music Marathon, a 35-year-old autumn tradition where college radio kids and business people flock to the city for a week of showcases and networking available to those with a $549 badge. [Read More]

The Siege by HelenDunmore

 Posted on May 31, 2024  |  4 minutes  |  839 words  |  Aldo Pusey

Book clubHelen DunmoreWeek one: the sensesNovels do not always attend to the evidence of the senses (how many smells or tastes do you find in Jane Austen or George Eliot?). It took James Joyce's Ulysses to bring fiction alive to ordinary odours and to make readers feel life at the fingers' ends. The realism of the senses is at the heart of Helen Dunmore's The Siege, which imagines the experience of enduring the siege of Leningrad during the second world war. [Read More]

Building Zion: the controversial plan for a Mormon-inspired city in Vermont

 Posted on May 30, 2024  |  15 minutes  |  2993 words  |  Valentine Belue

CitiesA Mormon businessman is buying up land to build master-planned towns from scratch, inspired by church founder Joseph Smith’s idea for a ‘plat of Zion’ – so why does the church oppose it? How the Mormons are planning a city for 500,000 in Florida The roads through rural Vermont wind past rolling forested hills and quaint small towns, including South Royalton – used as the quintessential New England village in the opening sequence of the TV series Gilmore Girls. [Read More]

I was on the high of highs, and suddenly it was over: Linda Hoover on her great lost LP with S

 Posted on May 30, 2024  |  6 minutes  |  1192 words  |  Jenniffer Sheldon

Steely DanInterview‘I was on the high of highs, and suddenly it was over’: Linda Hoover on her great lost LP with Steely DanPeter JonesAt the age of 71, singer-songwriter Hoover is finally releasing her debut album – 50 years after she made it. She explains how Becker and Fagen lent a hand to a must-have record for Dan fans Few wannabe pop stars release their debut album at the age of 71, especially one that was recorded more than half a century earlier. [Read More]