Where did the Metropolitan Museum of Art get its Native American objects?

 Posted on April 12, 2024  |  28 minutes  |  5752 words  |  Christie Applegate

A ProPublica review of records found that only 15% of the 139 works donated or loaned by the Dikers over the years have solid or complete ownership histories. Photograph: Alex Bandoni/ProPublica (Source Images: Lorina Capitulo/Newsday RM via Getty Images and The National Park ServiceA ProPublica review of records found that only 15% of the 139 works donated or loaned by the Dikers over the years have solid or complete ownership histories. [Read More]

How Tyson Furys words shine a light on Traveller faith

 Posted on April 11, 2024  |  8 minutes  |  1651 words  |  Christie Applegate

The ObserverTyson FuryThe boxer’s comments have shocked many, including those in his own community. But he believes he is reflecting the views of an influential and growing evangelical movementEveryone has an opinion on Tyson Fury. The holder of three world heavyweight boxing titles (although he was stripped of one last week on a technicality), he has rarely been out of the headlines since beating Wladimir Klitschko. However, the cause has not been his prowess in the ring but a string of comments that have seen him branded a sexist homophobe and led to calls for him to be kicked off the shortlist for next weekend’s Sports Personality of the Year awards. [Read More]

Malcolm Hardee | Comedy | The Guardian

 Posted on April 11, 2024  |  6 minutes  |  1084 words  |  Barrett Giampaolo

ComedyObituaryMalcolm HardeePatron sinner of alternative comedy, he was renowned for his outrageous stuntsComedian Malcolm Hardee, who has died aged 55, was a familiar figure on Britain's alternative comedy circuit, but it was as much his offstage antics that made him the icon of that anarchic movement. Most famously, in 1986, he stole Freddie Mercury's 40th birthday cake and donated it to a home for older people, shortly before the police arrived to search his house for crumbs. [Read More]

Maryland mother found pushing dead son on swing charged with abuse | Maryland

 Posted on April 11, 2024  |  3 minutes  |  557 words  |  Barrett Giampaolo

Maryland This article is more than 8 years oldMaryland mother found pushing dead son on swing charged with abuseThis article is more than 8 years oldRomechia Simms, 24, indicted on charges of manslaughter, first-degree child abuse and child neglect A Maryland woman who was found pushing her dead son in a playground swing earlier this year has been indicted and charged with manslaughter and child abuse, authorities announced Monday. The Charles County state’s attorney’s office announced that Romechia Simms, 24, was arrested Saturday and faced an arraignment Monday. [Read More]

Montpelier Parade by Karl Geary review an affair to remember

 Posted on April 11, 2024  |  4 minutes  |  850 words  |  Brenda Moya

FictionReviewA teenager escapes the drudgery of 80s Dublin through a relationship with an older woman in this auspicious fiction debut Montpelier Parade is the debut novel by Karl Geary (right), a Dubliner who emigrated to New York in the late 80s at the age of 16, where he went on to live a life that was the antithesis of the one available to him back home – co-running the bar Sin-é, at which Jeff Buckley performed and Rufus Wainwright laments he didn’t, appearing in Madonna’s Sex book, becoming an actor and screenwriter. [Read More]

St Vincent review naked thrills and dark disco

 Posted on April 11, 2024  |  6 minutes  |  1082 words  |  Barrett Giampaolo

Kitty Empire's artist of the weekSt VincentReviewCambridge Corn Exchange Annie Clark has crafted an unsettlingly sexy live show fit for the heavy themes and neon 80s pulse of MasseductionThere are those who primarily know of Annie Clark – the performer billed as St Vincent – as the ex-partner of the British model Cara Delevingne, a partnership lived in the full glare of paparazzi flashbulbs. That all ended a while ago, but the period was captured in painful, prurient detail on Masseduction, St Vincent’s landmark 2017 album. [Read More]

The long, dark shadow of Bhopal: still waiting for justice, four decades on | Global development

 Posted on April 11, 2024  |  10 minutes  |  1953 words  |  Christie Applegate

Demonstrators take to the streets of Bhopal every year on the anniversary of the Union Carbide gas disaster. This image is from 2018. Photograph: Judah PassowThe cloud of poisonous gas that leaked from a rusting chemical plant in 1984 still blights the lives of tens of thousands of people in the Indian city, including many not born then. But Union Carbide never answered for the devastating contamination. Photographer Judah Passow spent a year recording the lives of some victims of the disaster [Read More]

From labour camp to guitar hero: the abstract beauty of Branko Mataja

 Posted on April 10, 2024  |  6 minutes  |  1213 words  |  Barrett Giampaolo

MusicThe Yugoslavian was forced to Germany, then moved to the US and brought psychedelic wonder to his native music. After a rediscovery in a Hollywood record store, he can finally be heard War, slave labour, concentration camps and life as a refugee: having survived such hardships, it is no wonder Yugoslavian musician Branko Mataja was happy to live quietly in a Los Angeles suburb and build custom guitars for the likes of Johnny Cash and Geddy Lee. [Read More]

How much would an English one pound note with Isaac Newton on it be worth today? | Notes and Queries

 Posted on April 10, 2024  |  1 minutes  |  204 words  |  Brenda Moya

ROOT OF ALL EVILHow much would an English one pound note with Isaac Newton on it be worth today? ace, walsall england £1 scott, wales The face value of GBP1 would still be honored by the Bank of England. As the note has been out of circulation for a while, the lack of supply may have influenced the value of the note to collectors of notes and coins; e. [Read More]

Israeli airstrikes kill 80 in Palestinian refugee camp | Israel-Gaza war

 Posted on April 10, 2024  |  7 minutes  |  1308 words  |  Barrett Giampaolo

An injured baby is rushed to Al-Nasr children’s hospital after an Israeli attack yesterday in Khan Younis as fears grow for people from northern Gaza who continue to seek safety in the south. Photograph: Abed Zagout/Anadolu/Getty ImagesAn injured baby is rushed to Al-Nasr children’s hospital after an Israeli attack yesterday in Khan Younis as fears grow for people from northern Gaza who continue to seek safety in the south. Photograph: Abed Zagout/Anadolu/Getty ImagesThe ObserverIsrael-Gaza war This article is more than 2 months oldIsraeli airstrikes kill 80 in Palestinian refugee campThis article is more than 2 months oldFears mount for Gaza refugees as nowhere is deemed safe for civilians in effort to destroy Hamas [Read More]