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4 days ago

Brady Corbet and ‘The Brutalist’ go for broke

NEW YORK — Brady Corbet’s “The Brutalist” emerged less like a new film worth checking out than a movie colossus to behold. This image released by A24 shows Adrien Brody, center, in a scene from “The Brutalist.” This image released by A24 shows Adrien Brody, center, in a scene from “The Brutalist.” Share Share Copy Link copied Email Facebook X …

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4 days, 17 hours ago

Guy Pearce never chased Hollywood. His power patron in ‘The Brutalist’ is the best revenge

LA Times

Guy Pearce walked to his recent press day in Los Angeles. “We hear this a bit and I’m trying to make sense of that because it didn’t feel like we were rushed,” says Pearce. “Every time I talked to Brady, I had to kind of go, ‘So I just want to talk about that scene again,’” Pearce recalls. “A lot …

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5 days ago

Movie Review: Like architecture itself, ‘The Brutalist’ is an epic exercise in ambition and grandeur

Associated Press

“The making of a good building,” observed architect Frank Lloyd Wright, “is a great moral performance.” Like many notable quotes about architecture, it speaks to grandeur, permanence, scale. Tóth, played with deep soul and unrelenting intensity by Adrien Brody in “The Brutalist,” is actually fictional, though you could be forgiven for thinking otherwise, so richly realized is his story in …

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1 week ago

LSU receives transfer commitment from ex-Mississippi State QB Michael Van Buren

Associated Press

LSU has received a transfer commitment from former Mississippi State freshman quarterback Michael Van Buren. Van Buren, who has three years of college football eligibility remaining, announced his decision through the On3 website and a social media post on Sunday — four days after LSU starter Garrett Nussmeier announced he would be returning to the Tigers for his senior season. …

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1 week, 5 days ago

Tulane QB Mensah transfers to Duke; Mississippi State’s Van Buren, Cal’s Mendoza enter portal

Associated Press

The AP Top 25 college football poll is back every week throughout the season! Former Tulane quarterback Darian Mensah has already found a new program in Duke, while Mississippi State’s Michael Van Buren Jr., Wisconsin’s Braedyn Locke and Cal’s Fernando Mendoza are exploring changes of their own in the transfer portal. The Blue Devils will face Mississippi in the Gator …

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1 month, 2 weeks ago

Mississippi State Triumphs Over Massachusetts, Clinches Top 25 Poll Position

Associated Press

Mississippi State secured a thrilling 45-20 victory over Massachusetts on Saturday, marking their first win since the beginning of the season. The Bulldogs dominated the game from the start, scoring 35 points in the second and third quarters and holding the Minutemen scoreless for five consecutive drives. Michael Van Buren Jr. shone as the quarterback, accounting for three touchdowns and …

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2 months, 1 week ago

Georgia coach Kirby Smart’s viral moment, plus Boise State’s Ashton Jeanty is an all-timer

New York Times

Until Saturday Newsletter 🏈 | This is The Athletic’s college football newsletter. College Football Beefs Smart pushes MSU QB Georgia’s 41-31 win against Mississippi State didn’t include a ton of dramatics when it came to the game. Heisman Poll We’re watching Jeanty make history Boise State RB Ashton Jeanty jumped Colorado WR/DB Travis Hunter for first place in The Athletic’s …

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4 months, 1 week ago

JD Vance and the politics of vegetarianism in a red-meat Republican Party

LA Times

While campaigning for a Senate seat, JD Vance participated in a rib-eating contest at the Ohio State Fair in August 2022. “Although he’s a meat-and-potatoes kind of guy, he adapted to my vegetarian diet and learned to cook food from my mother — Indian food,” she said. The meat and potatoes — the white nationalism that JD Vance is trying …

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5 months, 2 weeks ago

Discrimination and bullying rampant in Amsterdam municipality

Dutch News

According to the latest report carried out on behalf of the municipality of Amsterdam, 55% of city workers have experienced bullying, humiliation and/or exclusion over the past 12 months. “At the same time, managers bear a responsibility in this regard to bring about change,” wrote deputy major Hester van Buren in a letter to city council members earlier this week, …

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7 months, 2 weeks ago

Trump vs. history: Former presidents typically implode on their comeback tours

Raw Story

Grover Cleveland is the historical standard among American presidents who lose or leave office then seek to regain it. A painting of Teddy Roosevelt hangs behind then-President Donald Trump as he speaks before signing a proclamation for National Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day, in the Roosevelt Room of the White House, December 7, 2017 in Washington, D.C. Having lost the GOP …

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9 months, 1 week ago

US has its first presidential rematch since 1956, and other facts about the Biden-Trump sequel

Associated Press

WASHINGTON — Just when Americans thought they were out, Joe Biden and Donald Trump pulled them back in. The last presidential rematch came in 1956, when Republican President Dwight D. Eisenhower again defeated Adlai Stevenson, the Democratic opponent he had four years prior. After Eisenhower beat Stevenson in 1952 and won all but nine states, the incumbent president faced Stevenson …

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1 year ago

Amsterdam to demand 12% reduction in Schiphol flight movements

NL Times

The City of Amsterdam will take a stronger stance to demand that the number of flight movements at Schiphol Airport fall from 500,000 to 440,000 per year. With right-wing political parties currently wrangling in The Hague to see if they can agree on enough policy initiatives to form a new national coalition government, Van Buren said the capital will no …

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1 year, 2 months ago

Presidential pets can breed controversy. A dog was once suspected of being a spy

NPR

Presidential pets can breed controversy. A dog was once suspected of being a spy Enlarge this image toggle caption William J. Smith/AP Mandel Ngan/AFP via Getty Images, Marcy Nighswander/AP William J. Smith/AP Mandel Ngan/AFP via Getty Images, Marcy Nighswander/AP News that another of President Biden's German shepherds has been transferred from the White House to the proverbial doghouse brings to …

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1 year, 2 months ago

Amsterdam announces sharp increase in tourist tax for hotel rooms, cruise passengers

NL Times

Amsterdam is significantly increasing taxes on tourists and cruise ship passengers to raise money in its budget for more shelter places, poverty reduction measures, and healthcare organizations, among other things. The tourist tax rate is increasing from 7 percent over the room charge and 3 euros per person per night to a flat 12.5 percent over the room fee. Cruise …

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1 year, 7 months ago

Tourism and cancelled projects boost Amsterdam's cash reserves

Dutch News

Amsterdam attracted almost €200 million more than it spent last year, partly due to the tourism recovery in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic, according to the city’s 2022 accounts. Some €18 million of the unexpected surplus was down to tourist taxes, which generated nearly €140 million for the city’s coffers. In addition, some cash was left over because the …

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1 year, 7 months ago

Tourism and cancelled projects boost Amsterdam's cash reserves

Dutch News

Amsterdam attracted almost €200 million more than it spent last year, partly due to the tourism recovery in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic, according to the city’s 2022 accounts. Some €18 million of the unexpected surplus was down to tourist taxes, which generated nearly €140 million for the city’s coffers. In addition, some cash was left over because the …

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1 year, 10 months ago

Amsterdam city workers, including trash collectors, to strike for one week from Monday

NL Times

Municipal officials in Amsterdam will go on strike for one week starting on Monday. The trade unions announced the Amsterdam strike during their national day of action in Utrecht, demonstrating for a better collective bargaining agreement. The civil servant strike is expected to cause a great deal of inconvenience for people in the city, said Hester van Buren, the alderman …

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1 year, 11 months ago

Many people still looking for alleged Nazi treasure near Ommeren

NL Times

Despite an appeal by the municipality of Buren, many people dug near Ommeren on Saturday for a treasure allegedly buried there by German soldiers at the end of World War II. According to a spokesperson for the municipality of Buren, which includes Ommeren, many people started to dig mainly on private property. Residents initially thought it was a nice story, …

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2 years, 1 month ago

Will Donald Trump pull of a Grover Cleveland, the only US president to serve two non-consecutive terms?

Firstpost

Donald Trump has announced his bid to run for the White House in 2024. Of these, only Grover Cleveland has been successful in losing an election and then rising from the ashes to regain power “In order to make America great and glorious again, I am today announcing my candidacy for president of the United States,” said Donald Trump as …

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2 years, 2 months ago

Michigan board approves $400 million to advance EV batteries

Associated Press

LANSING, Mich. — A Michigan economic development board approved more than $400 million in state incentives Wednesday for two battery factories estimated to cost $4 billion and bring 4,500 jobs to the state. A Michigan energy-storage company, Our Next Energy, would be allocated $236 million in the agreement for an up to $1.6 billion project in Van Buren Township outside …

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54 years, 11 months ago

Presidential pets: The best dogs, cats, possums, racist parrots, and more who ever lived in the White House, and beyond.

Slate

After four long years, we finally have a new president and, more importantly, new presidential pets. Reciprocity probably didn’t fare very well at the White House: One story about their arrival was headlined “’Possums for Harrison’s Sunday Dinner.” As the Library of Congress has noted, a newspaper in Kentucky wrote an “Obama’s Hip-Hop BBQ Didn’t Create Jobs”–type article arguing that …

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4 years ago

Opinion: The uphill road that awaits Donald Trump

CNN

Editor’s Note: Thomas Balcerski teaches history at Eastern Connecticut State University. Three other former presidents ran as third-party candidates after their time in office: Martin Van Buren in 1848, Millard Fillmore in 1856 and Theodore Roosevelt in 1912. Win again: Grover Cleveland President Grover Cleveland Hulton Archive/Archive Photos/Getty Images In 1884, Grover Cleveland became the first Democrat elected president since …

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4 years, 1 month ago

The US Election 2020: The facts, the figures and the legends

The Independent

The president’s official residence in Washington – 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue – has a history scarcely less colourful than that of the presidency. Presidents who died in office: 8 William Henry Harrison, 1841, Zachary Taylor, 1850, Abraham Lincoln, 1865, James A Garfield, 1881, William McKinley, 1901, Warren G Harding, 1923, Franklin D Roosevelt, 1945, John F Kennedy, 1963. Presidents elected in …

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Brady Corbet and ‘The Brutalist’ go for broke

Guy Pearce never chased Hollywood. His power patron in ‘The Brutalist’ is the best revenge

Movie Review: Like architecture itself, ‘The Brutalist’ is an epic exercise in ambition and grandeur

LSU receives transfer commitment from ex-Mississippi State QB Michael Van Buren

Tulane QB Mensah transfers to Duke; Mississippi State’s Van Buren, Cal’s Mendoza enter portal

Mississippi State Triumphs Over Massachusetts, Clinches Top 25 Poll Position

Georgia coach Kirby Smart’s viral moment, plus Boise State’s Ashton Jeanty is an all-timer

JD Vance and the politics of vegetarianism in a red-meat Republican Party

Discrimination and bullying rampant in Amsterdam municipality

Trump vs. history: Former presidents typically implode on their comeback tours

US has its first presidential rematch since 1956, and other facts about the Biden-Trump sequel

Amsterdam to demand 12% reduction in Schiphol flight movements

Presidential pets can breed controversy. A dog was once suspected of being a spy

Amsterdam announces sharp increase in tourist tax for hotel rooms, cruise passengers

Tourism and cancelled projects boost Amsterdam's cash reserves

Tourism and cancelled projects boost Amsterdam's cash reserves

Amsterdam city workers, including trash collectors, to strike for one week from Monday

Many people still looking for alleged Nazi treasure near Ommeren

Will Donald Trump pull of a Grover Cleveland, the only US president to serve two non-consecutive terms?

Michigan board approves $400 million to advance EV batteries

Presidential pets: The best dogs, cats, possums, racist parrots, and more who ever lived in the White House, and beyond.

Opinion: The uphill road that awaits Donald Trump

The US Election 2020: The facts, the figures and the legends