A revealing blend of family lore, history, policy and anger casts light on the background and legacy of Donald TrumpLast year, Mary Trump delivered a salacious and venomous takedown of her uncle, Donald J Trump. Too Much and Never Enough doubled as awe…
東京のデジタルツインが地域の自律分散型コミュニティを加速する：WIRED特区 有楽町SAAIでプロデューサー古田秘馬と考える
「大丸有」と呼ばれる都心の一等地の意味と文脈が急速に変わり、地域分散がいよいよ現実化してきた現在、その先にあるローカル経済圏と東京の関係とはいかなるものになるのか？ これまで「丸の内朝大学」や「有楽町SAAI」のプロデュースにかかわる一方で数々の地域発のコミュニティづくりを手がけてきたプロデューサー古田秘馬に訊いた。
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‘A way to be heard’: the New Zealand Pasifika youth subculture devoted to emergency sirens
Siren kings battle their way through several carefully judged rounds to establish who has the loudest, clearest sound On the streets of south Auckland, Pasifika youth equipped with plastic siren cones have created a new sound – one that stormed TikTok…
Blood, gore and a healthy dose of catharsis: why horror can be good for us
A grisly feast of scary British films is heading our way. Why now? Once seen as ‘video nasties’, many believe they have a positive role to play in a pandemicThe terror begins in the London of 1985 when Enid Baines, a film censor, spots an eerie reflect…
Paul Mason: ‘Modern fascism’s interests are being represented in government by rightwing populists’
The former Channel 4 News broadcaster on writing at 4am, reading Carlo Rovelli and the danger posed by the new wave of fascism that’s on the rise across the worldPaul Mason was born in Lancashire in 1960, the son of a headmistress and a lorry driver. H…
Nanci Griffith: a folk singer committed to the genre as much as activism
The late singer-songwriter was dedicated to the fundamentals of folk music and her Grammy-winning music also found space for politicsIn 1993, when the world was enthralled with the new sound of grunge rock emanating from the Pacific north-west, Nanci G…
The week in audio: The Patch; The Grand Scheme: Snatching Sinatra; Forever Is a Long Time
Random UK postcodes, the kidnapping of Frank Sinatra’s son and a family big on divorce yield a succession of moving storiesThe Patch BBC Radio 4 | BBC SoundsThe Grand Scheme: Snatching Sinatra Wondery Forever Is a Long Time PRXThree very different ways…
Micro marvels: Levon Biss captures seeds close up – in pictures
“As a boy, my main interest in nature was finding the tallest tree to climb,” says the British photographer Levon Biss. However, after travelling the world, his curiosity shifted to nature’s most minuscule structures. For his photo series The Hidden Be…
GA-20: Try It… You Might Like It! review – a rowdy blast of primal blues
(Colemine/Alligator)This unusual US trio of two guitars and drums keep things fierce and simple on their homage to the great Chicago bluesman Hound Dog TaylorWhen the young Bruce Iglauer witnessed a performance by Hound Dog Taylor and the HouseRockers …
Box of tricks: inside the home of Patrizia Moroso
Bright hues abound in the stunning Udine hideaway of the Italian designer.An Italian oasis to call home is on a lot of people’s wishlists. Few, however, would think to look for it in Udine, the northeastern city in the lesser-known Friuli-Venezia Giuli…