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Opinion: When we invest in play for kids, we all win
Opinion: When we invest in play for kids, we all win Tim Adams, founder and executive director of Free Footie at the office in the North Soccer Centre on January 7, 2020. Free Footie is a free after school club for kids in need in Edmonton. Most are refugees, newcomers, or Indigenous youth who cannot afford the pay. But money isn?t the only barrier keeping kids from playing. The organization is in crunch mode as they try to raise funding for the coming year.
After 19 Years, Marvel’s Most Powerful Couple Are Officially Parents
Emma Frost, Wolverine, and Rogue lead the X-Men in Shadows of Tomorrow Published 23 minutes ago Tim Adams is a Comics Reporter at Screen Rant. After writing and talking about pop culture on his personal blog and podcast, Tim joined CBR as a Contributing Writer in 2016. Tim quickly demonstrated himself to be a valuable member of the team, resulting in a promotion to Associate Editor and then Lead News Editor in 2018.
Remembering Rachel Cooke | The Observer
Over recent months, during Rachel Cooke’s absence, our ideas meetings at The Observer have been punctuated by a repeated refrain: “Rachel would have been so great at that”; “That would have been a perfect Rachel Cooke piece”; “When Rachel is back, she’ll have so much fun interviewing him/her/going there/investigating that…” The truth is, that refrain applied equally to just about any idea you could come up with.
Technologies for Worship Newsletter
In the diverse tapestry of congregations, fostering inclusivity and ensuring that every member can fully participate in worship is a foundational principle. Closed captioning, a feature commonly associated with television and online content, is increasingly finding a meaningful place in worship services. This article explores the significance of closed captioning in worship, shedding light on the reasons it is considered important for creating an inclusive and accessible environment for all.
The 3 types of natural environments that recharge your batteries
Spending time in nature —whether in green spaces, near water, or among towering evergreen trees —has a profound impact on our emotional, physical, and mental well-being. No doubt you instinctively know that being in nature helps you feel more relaxed, but scientists now have the data to explain why. Evergreen trees, pine trees, and other plants release natural compounds called phytoncides, which have been shown to reduce stress by lowering cortisol levels and improving immune function.
Technologies for Worship Newsletter
Achieving an immersive audio experience in your church goes beyond mere sound amplification; it's about creating a worship environment that engages congregants on a profound level. Whether you're planning for a traditional sanctuary, a contemporary worship space, or a hybrid setup that combines in-person and online elements, strategic audio design plays a crucial role.
a pioneering Indian skater girl shows off her prized board
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The big picture: a pioneering Indian skater girl shows off her prized board
For the past few years the Italian photographer Chantal Pinzi has been documenting the rebel spirit of female skateboarders, in a project she calls Shred the Patriarchy. Her original focus was on girls who skated in Morocco, in defiance of cultural norms. She continued that project in rural India, where a handful of women have used skateboarding to stake out public spaces for themselves. One pioneer of this is Asha Gond, who grew up in a farming family in the village of Janwaar in Madhya Pradesh.
artists Joel Meyerowitz and Maggie Barrett on laying bare their marriage on film
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‘It’s been really profound’: artists Joel Meyerowitz and Maggie Barrett on laying bare their marriage on film
We might all have domestic arguments that demand to be preserved on film for their drama, but few of them would ever live up to the intensity, eloquence and glamour of the barneys between American photographer Joel Meyerowitz and his English wife, novelist and artist Maggie Barrett.
Newsha Tavakolian spotlights the Iranian singers silenced by Islamic law
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The big picture: Newsha Tavakolian spotlights the Iranian singers silenced by Islamic law
The Iranian photographer Newsha Tavakolian began her career as a photojournalist but, one after another, the publications in which her pictures appeared in Tehran were banned. In 2002, she switched her focus from news to art, though the boundaries between the two are porous.
Securities to be offered to employees in employee benefit plans
As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on February 28, 2025 UNITED STATES SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION Washington, D.C. 20549 FORM S-8 REGISTRATION STATEMENT UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933 RAPID7, INC.
Theory & Practice by Michelle de Kretser review - shame, desire and the ghost of Virginia Woolf
‘[She] continued to avoid my eye’: Virginia Woolf presides over Michelle de Kretser’s Theory & Practice.Photograph: George C Beresford/Getty Images This book starts as an evocative, shifting novel of time and place: a young man travelling in Switzerland, distracted by thoughts of a beautiful music teacher he met in London, recalls how, in his Australian childhood, he was evacuated to live with his grandparents at a sheep station in New South Wales in the second world war.
Technologies for Worship Newsletter
By Zachary McCrorey Founded in 2010 and led by Pastor Derwin Gray, Transformation Church began with a group of about 200 individuals who believed in God’s vision to be a multiethnic, multigenerational, mission-shaped community. Located in Indian Land, South Carolina, Transformation Church has been recognized as one of the fastest growing churches by Outreach Magazine across multiple years since its conception.
Caroline Lucas: ‘I can’t imagine my parents ever voted Green, but they became less antagonistic’
It’s tempting to think of Caroline Lucas as a kind of spirit of place in Brighton. She has arrived first at Food for Friends, the oldest vegetarian restaurant in the city, and there is something almost mythical in seeing the pioneering Green MP in its window seat, facing the Lanes, framed by trailing foliage. She has been coming here for as long as she can remember, she says – the restaurant opened in 1981 and used to have folk queuing around the block.
The big picture: the jubilation of clubbing in 90s London
Ewen Spencer took this picture at a Sunday club night called Twice As Nice at The End in London’s West Central Street in 1999. He’d been a regular there back in the days when it was held at the Colosseum in Vauxhall, south of the river. The move to the West End signalled that its garage music was becoming more a mainstream part of culture. Spencer, who grew up in Newcastle upon Tyne, had been documenting underground party nights for a decade by then for magazines such as the Face and i-D.
hope within reach in 1970s New York
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The big picture: hope within reach in 1970s New York
When he was about 30, the celebrated American photographer Mark Cohen lived in a dorm at New York University while spending a month at the film school there. In breaks from classes, he would wander the streets of the city taking pictures. Nearly all those images were unprinted and until recently existed only as negatives. A new book, Tall Socks, collects that work for the first time.
Agnes Callard, the philosopher living life according to Socrates
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The big picture: wedding celebrations in London’s Banglatown, 1991
Wayne Tippetts took this picture in what became known as Banglatown – the area between Brick Lane and Whitechapel High Street east of the City of London – in 1991. Tippetts was, he recalls, in the habit at the time of walking up from near the river at Wapping where his photo agency, Select, had its offices, and taking pictures of the Bangladeshi community, families who had mostly arrived in London in the 1970s.
Agnes Callard, the philosopher living life according to Socrates
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‘We’re not doing the thing we’re built to do’: Agnes Callard, the philosopher living life according to Socrates
‘You can view life as a comedy or a tragedy, but I really think that Socrates thought there’s a third possibility’: the American philosopher Agnes Callard, outside the Wallace Collection, London, January 2025.Photograph: Sophia Evans/The Observer What happens when a dedicated life of the mind confronts the messiness of earthly desires?
The big picture: a seemingly innocent winter’s day in Moscow
The photographer Alexander Gronsky calls the series of pictures he took in Moscow suburbs, after the 2022 invasion of Ukraine, Something Is Going on Here. This image of families in the snow has a kind of dubious innocence. It is juxtaposed in other photos in the collection with military vehicles idling in these same winter landscapes at the edge of the city, and uniformed Russian soldiers mingling with ordinary residents. The contrast gives all of the images a disturbing edge of menace.
a gaggle of visitors gather beneath London’s Shard
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The big picture: a gaggle of visitors gather beneath London’s Shard
For the past seven years the Observer photographer Andy Hall has been wandering the City of London with his camera – post-Brexit, through the eerie emptiness of the pandemic and beyond – to document the changing faces of the capital’s former citadel; home to about 8,000 people, daily workplace for about 600,000 more.
Christiane Amanpour on Trump, tech and and fighting for the truth
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‘Our job is to be truthful not neutral’: Christiane Amanpour on Trump, tech and and fighting for the truth
Just occasionally, in more than 40 years of reporting the world’s troubles, Christiane Amanpour has forced herself to step away and pause for breath. One of those moments for rebooting came over Christmas and new year, when she took a holiday in South Africa. I met her on the day she got back to work at the CNN offices in London, from which she makes her nightly news programme, and Saturday’s The Amanpour Hour. There is a powerful sense of her team buckling up for the tumultuous year ahead.
Now gen AI has stopped telling us to glue cheese to pizza, it’s bland as a margherita
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Now gen AI has stopped telling us to glue cheese to pizza, it’s bland as a margherita
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Theaster Gates: ‘I’m an artist. It’s my job to wake things up’
When you are in this line of work, a question people sometimes ask is: “Of all the people you have interviewed and written about, who was the most inspiring?” And when they do, my memory often goes back to a day I spent 10 years ago driving around the south side of Chicago with the radical potter, and revolutionary urban planner, and guerrilla archivist, and situationist gospel singer, Theaster Gates.
The big picture: Michel Vanden Eeckhoudt’s languorous horse
Recent research into animal behaviour indicates that, contrary to the belief that horses only respond to stimuli in the moment, they have the ability to think ahead and plan their actions. The horse in this picture by Michel Vanden Eeckhoudt seems to have no urgent need for such strategic thinking.
A Second Act by Dr Matt Morgan review – what nearly dying can teach us about living
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A Second Act by Dr Matt Morgan review - what nearly dying can teach us about living
A doctor performs CPR on an injured patient in the operating room.Photograph: skaman306/Getty Images “We have two lives,” Dr Matt Morgan writes, before clarifying: “The second begins when you realise you have [only] one.” Sometimes, as the case studies in this book detail, this realisation comes more suddenly and profoundly than most of us can imagine. For more than 20 years, Morgan has been a specialist doctor in intensive care, labouring at the extreme margins of life.
The big picture: Henry Roy’s sleeping girl in Congo-Brazzaville
Henry Roy’s book, Impossible Island, a survey of 40 years of his photography, is threaded with images of sleepers and dreamers in different corners of the world – Thailand, Tunisia, his adoptive France, his native Haiti. Roy took this picture of a girl making an impromptu cradle of a wheelbarrow in Congo-Brazzaville in 2002. Like all of his most evocative photographs, it asks several questions of the viewer – but the overriding one seems to be: how sleepy do you have to be to take a nap here?
‘Most of my work is a response to war’: Colombian artist Doris Salcedo on violence, Trump and her crack in Tate Modern’s floor
As the world turns toward another fractured year, Doris Salcedo, the Colombian artist, is at work trying to fathom how to create a house out of human hair. Salcedo, 65, has long made herself a channel of collective trauma, her art expressing profound anger at political crimes and atrocities at home and abroad – as well as creating imaginative spaces for mourning.
Tim Minchin: ‘Maybe scrolling the traumas of the world is not in itself a moral act’
Tim Minchin does not arrive at lunch with the highest hopes. He has only had a couple of hours’ jet-lagged sleep, for a start. And, despite my feeble assurances to the contrary, he knows how it goes: in the course of two hours of no doubt enjoyable free-associating chat he’ll say one thing he will regret (two hours later when he’s on the train to Brighton); and when the story appears, that phrase will be the headline, and it will follow him around on the internet for ever.
The big picture: Tony Kearns captures stalled time at Camden Market
The market at Camden Lock in north London has for 50 years been trading in trends and nostalgia. Near the site of the horse hospital that once cared for animals pulling canal barges, the modern market was established with 16 stalls in 1974 and soon became – knocking off styles from Kings Road – the primary home of London’s punk counterculture. Ever since, regulars and traders have informed newcomers and tourists that the market is not what it was.
Stranger than Fiction: Lives of the Twentieth-Century Novel review – 100 years of magical thinking
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Stranger than Fiction: Lives of the Twentieth-Century Novel review - 100 years of magical thinking
‘His great gift lies in vividly bringing to life the books themselves’: Edwin Frank.Photograph: Sophia Evans/The Observer Edwin Frank vows in his introduction to this book to try to do for the fiction of the last century what the critic Alex Ross’s landmark book The Rest Is Noise did for its music. He is as good as his word. This is the most engaging imagining of the progress of the 20th-century novel you will read.
The big picture: a lost office world of endless paper and big cigars
The Swedish photographer Lars Tunbjörk spent five years in the late 1990s touring city offices in New York, Tokyo and Stockholm and documenting what he found there. This picture was taken in a Manhattan legal office in 1997; it would be safe to say it was not paper-free. Though Tunbjörk might not quite have known it at the time, he captured in those pictures enclosed, climate-controlled worlds in mortal jeopardy.
‘I’m writing a memoir. It’s a pack of lies’: John Banville on a lifetime in books, bereavement, and the Irish love of words
John Banville: ‘My wife used to say: I bet that you were a twin, and your twin died, and your mother didn’t tell you.’Photograph: Tristan Hutchinson/the Observer I’m going to get a glass of wine, will you have one?” John Banville asks. “I mean, we’re OK, it’s just about noon.” We’re sitting in Banville’s upstairs living room in the harbour village of Howth, just outside Dublin. The low, deep house is in a terrace that rises up behind the seafront.
earthbound reality at the International Space Station landing site in Kazakhstan
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The big picture: earthbound reality at the International Space Station landing site in Kazakhstan
The photographer Andrew McConnell first went to Kazakhstan in 2015, to witness what the Earth’s primary space portal looked like on the ground. A particular corner of the remote steppe-land, near a village called Kenjebai-Samai, was where, every three months, astronauts and cosmonauts on the International Space Station fell to earth, having been launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome 400 miles to the south.
For now, let’s revel in Bluesky’s promised land and kid ourselves it’ll never get like X
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The big picture: Marvin E Newman’s Californian dreamers
Marvin E Newman, the son of a family of bakers from the Bronx, New York, had dreams of being a painter or a sculptor. After hitchhiking to art school in Chicago after the second world war he found a different way to express that ambition: he became a celebrated photographer during the golden age of American magazines, among the first to understand the possibilities of colour for publications that included Sports Illustrated and Esquire.
DC Just Made a Major Change to Batman’s Origin Story
Liam Neeson, 72, is ready to retire from action movies: ‘It has to stop’ Liam Neeson isn’t sure how much longer he can be an action movie star. The “Taken” star, 72, addressed when he’ll retire from acting in …
Sarah Perry: faith, telescopes and the perils of pigeon-holing writers
It seems appropriate that Sarah Perry chooses to meet in a road named Tombland. The author of The Essex Serpent is very much alive to the echoes of the dead. “My approach to time,” she says, cheerfully, “is that I have never felt the present is particularly important.” We are in Norwich, where she lives, in Shiki, a Japanese restaurant directly opposite the cathedral. Perry has been a regular here for years.
Deadpool & Wolverine: Ryan Reynolds Confirms a Major Marvel Death That Was Scrapped
14 hours ago With no game for the Kansas City Chiefs this week, tight end Travis Kelce was able to spend some quality time with his girlfriend, pop icon Taylor Swift. The couple made the trip to New York City for Kelce’s bye week, hitting the town for dinner with Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds on Saturday and …
Jeremy King: ‘The first time I was ever impressed by anyone was Meryl Streep’
Jeremy King knows more about the feel of rooms, perhaps, than any man in London. The co-creator (with Chris Corbin) and inspired reviver of restaurants that immediately became fabulous institutions – the Ivy, the Wolseley – King has honed a genius for hospitality over 45 years. He can tell, he believes, when there is a full moon, because the noise in the dining room is a little more skittish.
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