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Reviews From SFFILM 2021 by Peter Wong on April 13, 2021 The documentary “Radiograph Of A Family” may primarily be filmmaker Firouzeh Khosrovani’s account of her parents’ marriage.  But it also manages to be an affecting metaphorical mid-20th century history of Iran’s two major cultural strands without being cloying or blatantly obvio...

Polystyrene waste scattered across Wellington coastline 11 Apr, 2021 07:40 PM 5 minutes to read Ōwhiro Bay resident Jade Lorier with a few of the polystyrene balls. Photo / Supplied RNZ By Karoline Tuckey, of RNZ. Residents are calling on authorities to do more to punish polluters, after polystyrene waste was scattered across more than 7km of Wellingtons south coastline, including a marine reserve. Ōwhiro Bay resident Jade Lorier was among those out collecting the waste from streets and fron...

Solange performing at the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival in 2014 (Flickr/Neon Tommy) The first time Stephanie Phillips, a London-based music journalist and the frontwoman of the punk trio Big Joanie, saw music polyhistor Solange Knowles, it was nearly baptismal. It was July 2017, and Phillips and her friends were at the Lovebox Festival in London. "Up there in the air, looking down from above on the sea of festival-goers, I could suddenly see my place in this fandom,...

Rat Girl by Kristin Hersh From Kristin Hersh has spanned the alternative music genre as a singer, songwriter and guitarist. In Rat Girl, she offers readers an in-depth look at her life as a musician. At 15 years old, Hersh and her bandmates in Throwing Muses were beginning to see the fruits of their labor come to life with a possible major-label signing. When she was diagnosed with bipolar disorder, everything changed for her. With Rat Girl, Hersh delivers an unapologetic story about being a ...

Record Store Day 2021: The Full List of Releases Unveiled Share April 8, 2021 Record Store Day has officially revealed the full list of releases for its 2021 edition. Due to the pandemic, the event will be divided into two ‘RSD Drops’, which will be taking place on June 12 and July 17. Over 250 record stores in the UK and thousands around the world will be participating in RSD 2021. Notable highlights from the 538 exclusive records on offer include: Lady Gaga’s  Chromatica on exclusive y...

"Valley Of Souls" After getting cancelled thanks to last year’s coronavirus lockdowns, the San Francisco International Film Festival (hereafter SFFILM) returns this year with its 2021 edition.  Running from April 9-18, 2021, this year’s SFFILM mixes together online streaming and live events at the Fort Mason Center drive-in.  This year’s program presents 103 films from 41 different countries.  13 of these films are World Premieres. One of these World Premieres takes Opening Night honor...

by Steve Newton on April 7th, 2021 at 10:56 AM 1 of 4 2 of 4 The 2021 DOXA Documentary Film Festival, which streams online from May 6 to 16, has announced four films from this years program. The featured documentaries include directors Paul Sng and Celeste Bells Poly Styrene: I Am A Cliché , which  chronicles the life of Anglo-Somali punk-rocker Poly Styrene, the influential frontwoman for 1970s British band X-Ray Spex .  Other highights of the festival are director Shannon Walsh�...

Paccor CEO Andreas Schütte (Photo: Paccor) German packaging group Miko Pac (Oud-Turnhout / Belgium; www.mikopac.com), the plastic packaging division of Miko Group (Turnhout / Belgium; www.mikogroup.be). With the acquisition, Paccor plans to strengthen its international reach, particularly in the fast-growing Asian market, with Miko Pac’s plant in Indonesia. The acquisition, scheduled to be completed by Q2 2021, has been priced at approximately EUR 110m, according to Miko. The proposed...

Tina  Though she’s officially retired now, Tina Turner remains one of the most empowering figures among women in rock, particularly since she overcame so many obstacles—not just race and gender bias, but leaving an artistic-marital relationship she’d previously been identified with—to achieve that status. This documentary by Dan Lindsay and T.J. Martin ( Undefeated,  LA 92) charts that fifty-year career in aptly celebratory terms. But at the same time, it’s also a somewhat proble...

Electromagnetic shielding for computer chips (Photo: Laird) US chemical giant Laird Performance Materials (Shanghai; www.laird.com) for USD 2.3 bn in cash from private equity company Advent International (Boston, Massachusetts / USA; www.adventinternational.com). The transaction is expected to close in the third quarter of 2021, subject to regulatory approvals and other closing conditions, DuPont said. Ed Breen, executive chairman and CEO of DuPont, said, “Laird Performance Materials is ...