Copperchaleu
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The most charming woman I've ever met.
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How Vienna built a gender equal city
Walk through the Reumannplatz, one of the best-known squares in Austria's capital city, Vienna, and you will probably spot an outdoor platform, prominently labelled Mädchenbühne (girls' stage). The large podium, which can be used by everyone, was requested as a performance space by the girls of the nearby school when asked what they would like from the urban area.
By Copperchaleu2 years ago in Wander
The woman who walked around the world
"Why?" It's a simple question, and one that people ask Angela Maxwell frequently. Yet until recently, the American struggled to answer why, exactly, she upended a perfectly fine life in pursuit of a big dream. But for Maxwell, "why" is a question worth answering. After all, she embarked on a journey that very few people attempt: in 2013, she decided to walk around the world – alone.
By Copperchaleu2 years ago in Wander
Why wild swimming is Britain's new craze
In between lockdowns, on a miserable, cold January day, I took myself off to Clevedon, a coastal town near me on the Bristol Channel. I wrapped myself in warm clothing and walked to Marine Lake, a seawater pool built onto the natural coastline. To my surprise, I saw a group of giggling women emerging from the ice-cold water. Spluttering and chatting away, they awkwardly changed into their clothes under their towels. I stood and looked on in disbelief: it was freezing, but they were jubilant, defying the weather by going for a swim.
By Copperchaleu2 years ago in Wander
Canada's little-known Russian sect
High on a bluff above Western Canada's Columbia River, just outside the small town of Castlegar, beautiful harmonies filled the air. I was sitting in the garden of the Doukhobor Discovery Centre beneath a statue of the great Russian novelist Leo Tolstoy, listening to a recording of an a cappella Doukhobor choir singing a haunting psalm. It sounded like a multi-tracked version of Crosby, Stills & Nash rendered in Russian.
By Copperchaleu2 years ago in Wander
Adda: The secret to Bengali conviviality
On 22 March 2020, the first day of the countrywide pandemic-induced lockdown in India, labourer Mridul Deb was enjoying a cup of tea with several others at a roadside tea-shack in Kolkata, the capital of the Indian state of West Bengal. When another local caught them on camera and asked why they were flouting the lockdown, one of them lashed out, "Amra cha khete eshechi, adda marte na, cha khawa hoegeche bari chole jachi" ("We have come here to drink tea, not to give adda, now we have finished so we are going home").
By Copperchaleu2 years ago in Wander
Cruella: 'There's something hollow at the film's centre'
There's a lot of Cruella-splaining, much of it from her own mouth, in Disney's origin story about the puppy-napper we think we know. As a young woman, the pre-Cruella is a talented, aspiring fashion designer named Estella, who lives in a 1970s London full of punk style and pop music. Emma Stone brings a winning charm to Estella and a languorous glamour to the unscrupulous Cruella she morphs into, who tries to take over the fashion world while avenging her mother's death. Revenge has rarely looked so stylish.
By Copperchaleu2 years ago in Geeks
11 of the best films to watch this October
1. All That Breathes A prize-winner at this year's Cannes and Sundance festivals, Shaunak Sen's poetic eco-documentary, All That Breathes, focusses on two brothers, Nadeem Shehzad and Mohammed Saud, who live and work in New Delhi. The smog in the city is so bad that dozens of kites (the birds of prey, not the toys) fall from the sky every day, but the brothers rescue as many of the birds as they can, nursing them back to health in their cramped, over-heated basement. "Shaunak weaves the many threads together with meditative rhythms, restraint and deep compassion," says Anupama Chopra at Film Companion. "At the end of the film… I cried for the incredible grace of these brothers and for the myopic cruelty of the world they live in. And for ourselves, because each one of us has contributed to making it."
By Copperchaleu2 years ago in Geeks
Diana biopic Spencer wobbles between the bold and the bad
You may feel that you've had enough of Princess Diana's story on the big and small screens, what with Naomi Watts taking the role in Oliver Hirschbiegel's awful Diana in 2013, and then Emma Corrin playing her in the most recent season of The Crown, with the mantel set to be passed in Elizabeth Debicki in the next run. But, to give it its due, Pablo Larraín's Spencer marks the only time the People's Princess has been shown delivering a lecture on Anne Boleyn to an old coat that she has just stolen off a scarecrow, and then having a chat with the ghost of Boleyn herself shortly afterwards. The Chilean director doesn't go in for conventional biopics, as anyone who has seen Jackie (starring Natalie Portman) or Neruda will know. And here again he has gone for a surreal portrait of his iconic subject. The snag is that his experimental art house spirit keeps bumping up against the naffness and the familiarity of British films set in stately homes, so his psychodrama ends up being both ground-breaking and rib-tickling.
By Copperchaleu2 years ago in Geeks
Why twisted erotic thriller Crash still stuns, 25 years on
On Monday 3 June 1996, any Londoner who picked up a copy of the Evening Standard newspaper on their way home from the office would have paused when they reached the headline: "A movie beyond the bounds of depravity".
By Copperchaleu2 years ago in Geeks
What is it like to be of Irish descent, the second-largest race in the United States?
The Historical Entanglement of Ireland and Britain The view that German descent is the number one ethnic group in the United States has been questioned by some netizens. This is because some internet users believe that the number of people of British descent is number one. After all, they count Irish descent among British descent. The total number of people counted in this way would indeed exceed the number of people of German descent.
By Copperchaleu2 years ago in FYI
Tomorrow's Horoscope October 11, 2022
Zodiac Sign Aries Horoscope for October 11, 2022 Someone may push an idea on you, suggesting it could help you in some way. But, Aries, you need to look for the benefit of both sides. Someone with ulterior motives may come to you to help other people. Don't be fooled. You're quite capable of handling a pressing issue on your own, rather than following someone else's ideas. Don't give in just to make another person happy. Trust yourself to know what to do.
By Copperchaleu2 years ago in Futurism
Should extinct animals be resurrected?
In central Kenya, three of the world's four remaining North African white rhinos live here, and they stubbornly refuse to breed. Since 2009, conservationists have been trying to "cage" these rhinos together, but to no avail. Today, the only male northern white rhinoceros is nearly 43 years old and too old to reproduce, making the extinction of this subspecies inevitable, only a matter of time.
By Copperchaleu2 years ago in Earth