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Britain has a chequered record in Europe’s trashiest competition. Here are the highs and lows in full – and what came next

Ah Baldwin Street, a Dunedin icon and the disputed steepest street in the world.  Upon recently turning 21, I asked myself a bunch of questions, as any true Pisces would. Who am I and what am I doing? What is life? And am I making the most of it? Most importantly, how can I get triple caked up? Motivated by the threat of time, I decided to embark on an experiment in the hopes of answering these questions. I took my taro legs and trotted up Baldwin St for 30 days. Some of them were in a row, but most of them weren’t, I’m not gonna fake the facts for content. 

Hint: think with your stomach. These phrases use “food as metaphor” to help us better conceptualize the way we relate to the abstract ideas of media & information. Since both food and media are things we consider to consume, there are many shared metaphors between them. But why should we care to better understand our relationship with information? Read this sentence. Now read it again 90 times. Humans in developed countries today consume a staggering 90 times more information than they did in 1940. According to the same study, we now spend 80% of our waking hours consuming information, a...

and last updated 2021-02-12 23:50:38-05 KANSAS CITY, Mo. — The pandemic altered everyone's lives one way or another, but one Kansas City couple turned the adversity into an opportunity. Courtney Hall and Cruz Barnas worked in the live entertainment industry for years in production before being laid off at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. "It was so unexpected and out of nowhere," Hall said. Barnas added, "They had to make a wave of second cuts and that’s when I went." The couple met working in the entertainment field, but quickly faced an uncertain future amid shutdown orders a...

A Movie Festival for One, on a Tiny Nordic Island Sweden’s Goteborg Film Festival has taken social distancing to the extreme, offering one attendee a week on a barren island, with only the competition films for company. Lisa Enroth, an emergency nurse, will spend a week in an isolated lighthouse keeper’s cottage, watching the 70 movies in competition at the Goteborg Film Festival.Credit...Ines Sebalj for The New York Times By Lisa Abend Feb. 1, 2021 As they do at the opening of any star-studded film festival, photographers scrambled for position, training their lenses on the spot where au...