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Canadian lake ground-zero for Anthropocene epoch
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How to watch Japanese Netflix for free
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Premier League Broadcaster beIN Goes Off Air on UAE’s Etisalat
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We’re Going To Fight About American Fiction. That’s The Point.
On a street corner of downtown Toronto in the wee hours of the morning is where the best conversations are bound to happen. I’ve spent my whole adult life in this city walking these streets and yelling my opinions — the good, the bad, and the shut-up-your-frontal-lobe-isn’t-even-formed-yet takes. I remember fighting with a friend just steps from Scotiabank Theatre after watching The Help about how Blackness should show up onscreen (spoiler: that was not it). They argued that, sure, maybe the movie was offensive, but parts of it were true. Why shouldn’t that story be told? (Their frontal lobe wasn’t fully formed either.) Over a decade later, during this year’s Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF), I found myself on those same streets debating the very same topic, except this time, the film in question wasn’t a trope-ridden, objectionable, white savior narrative; it was a ripe satire consumed with tackling the very conversations that Black media professionals have been having for decades. In American Fiction, it’s not about whether representation matters but rather what kind matters, and to whom?
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China Says 20 Died in Floods as Storms Sweep Northern Areas
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New Risks Shadow Bond Market as Fed’s Rate-Hike Cycle Nears End
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Is Jonnie Irwin OK? 'A Place in the Sun' host Jonnie Irwin undergoes hyperbaric oxygen treatment amid terminal lung cancer
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German inflation rose 6.5% in July
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MLB standings ordered by pitching whiff rate: Braves, Astros throwing filth
The MLB standings by pitching whiff rate give us a good sense of which teams are throwing the best stuff.Few sporting acts can capture the poetry of motion quite like pitching a baseball. Every pitcher operates as their own unique pace. Each wind-up has its own cadence, each release its own moti...
2023-06-30 06:48
American arrested in Venezuela just days after Biden administration eases oil sanctions
A California man’s family is pleading for his release after they say he was wrongfully arrested in Venezuela and held for ransom just days after President Joe Biden eased crippling oil sanctions on the socialist-run government
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Likely NBA top pick Wembanyama throws baseball with Yankees
French teen Victor Wembanyama, the likely top pick in Thursday's NBA Draft, rode the subway to Yankee Stadium on Tuesday and threw out the first...
2023-06-21 08:58
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