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Come Join Our Disease by Sam Byers review – busting taboos Kale smoothie or a necklace of dead rats? A dissatisfied woman embarks on a fierce and filthy challenge to capitalism, big tech and wellness culture Byers’ rebels squat in an industrial estate. Photograph: Gregory Warran/Getty Images Byers’ rebels squat in an industrial estate. Photograph: Gregory Warran/Getty Images Sat 3 Apr 2021 04.00 EDT “Inter faeces et urinam nascimur,” St Augustine of Hippo is credited ...

Edited by Lisa Minot 2 Apr 2021, 22:00 WITH the tourists gone from Thailand’s film-set islands of Khao Phing Kan and Koh Phi Phi, the marine life has been enjoying a valuable rest from humanity’s effects. Acres of new coral growth have been recorded and there are almost daily sightings of dolphins, blacktip reef sharks and dugongs — part of the manatee family. 6 Phuket province is set to be Thailand’s first holiday region to reopen to foreign travellers with vaccinated holidaymakers fro...

The funeral directors who buried World War II and SAS hero Blair Paddy Mayne has merged with a fellow business. Doggarts of Newtownards was founded by William Lamont Doggart in 1910 and run by successive generations of his family for many years. In 1955 the business gained recognition for conducting the funeral of Mayne, who served in the North Africa campaign and was a founding member of the SAS. Doggarts of Newtownards, based in the former Regent House School, will now be known as John Gra...

Oshawa may be getting a bike park Posted on March 17, 2021 by oshawaexpress in CITY, NEWS By Courtney Bachar/The Oshawa Express/LJI Reporter Oshawa City Council has chosen a preferred alternative site for a potential bike park to replace the current unsanctioned bike park in north Oshawa. Council recently endorsed Thornton Road Community Park as the preferred alternative site which could potentially include sports fields and a BMX facility. “I’m sure by this point it’s been recogni...

A Year in Five Minutes: Vancouver 1971 Pender Street in Chinatown in 1972, which was now part of a designated historic area. Item # CVA 780-447. Photo courtesy of Vancouver Archives. In 1971, Greenpeace was making waves, there was a riot in Gastown and the CBC started filming a very popular series on the Sunshine Coast. By Chuck Davis, 1971 census figures for Metropolitan Vancouver The 1971 census showed the metropolitan Vancouver population had topped the million mark for the first time. ...

Scene from Lauren Daigles video "Hold on To Me", March 2021. | Screenshot/YouTube Two-time Grammy Award-winner and multi-platinum recording artist Lauren Daigle dives deep into the reality of people’s lives in her new music video for her single “Hold On To Me” to help raise awareness about things that happen behind closed doors. The purpose of the video was to show that peoples lives arent always what they appear to be on social media. For the “Hold On To Me” video, Daigle teamed up ...

  Immortalised by Joyce in the Nausicaa episode of Ulysses imparting benediction at the Star of the Sea Church in Sandymount on Bloomsday, June 16th, 1904, John Canon O’Hanlon (1821-1905) was a noted historian and writer of 19th-century Ireland. Best remembered for his monumental Lives of the Irish Saints, O’Hanlon was also the author of numerous scholarly articles and 25 books, such as Irish-American History of the United States, History of the Queen’s County, Irish Local Lege...

A FLOCK of six stainless-steel birds with engravings “celebrating local heritage” have been erected in Poole. Situated on West Quay Road at Barber Piles, the West Quay Wings art installation is the first of two landmark gateway sculptures planned for the Townside area. During the day the birds in flight sculpture will reflect both colour and light. Each bird is engraved with images representing different aspects of Poole’s history from boat building to maritime trade, chemistry, fou...

Color Us Connected: Keeping in touch with our history Fosters Daily Democrat This column appears every other week in Foster’s Daily Democrat and the Tuskegee News. This week, Guy Trammell, an African American man from Tuskegee, Alabama, and Amy Miller, a white woman from South Berwick, Maine, write about a person in their town devoted to history. By Guy Trammell Jr. African history was passed from generation to generation by storytelling, as dramatized in the television series “Roots.” Th...

Bird Song of the Day At reader request, it’s Owl Week at the Naked Capitalism Water Cooler. Here we have an American Barn Owl. This clip was hard to find, because most of the really intriguing sonograms turned out to be night-time insect noise! #COVID19 At reader request, I’ve added this daily chart from 91-DIVOC. The data is the Johns Hopkins CSSE data. Here is the site. I feel I’m engaging in a macabre form of tape-watching, because I don’t think the peak is coming in the next days, o...