2025.01.09

Ifn we only had ice floes on the Mississippi!
Frederick Melo at the Pioneer Press reports: “City officials tagged dozens of tents in the area below East Seventh Street and Payne Avenue on Tuesday morning with notices to vacate, giving residents of what’s believed to be the city’s largest or second-largest homeless encampment until Jan. 16 to find somewhere else to stay.”
MinnPost
https://www.twincities.com/2025/01/07/st-pauls-second-largest-homeless-encampment-given-nine-days-to-move/

Just think of it as evolution in action?
How worried should we be about RFK Jr as health secretary? Ask Florida
Florida’s surgeon general Joseph Ladapo has given free rein to his own unorthodox views on vaccines and public health
Richard Luscombe in Miami
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jan/09/rfk-jr-health-secretary-joseph-ladapo-florida

Ranked
Rowan Atkinson at 70: his best films – ranked!
To mark his birthday this week, we celebrate his versatility from bumbling Mr Bean to his punctilious headteacher in The Secret Policeman’s Ball
By Ryan Gilbey
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2025/jan/09/rowan-atkinson-at-70-his-best-films-ranked

National Gallery pulls all-nighter for Van Gogh: Poets and Lovers final weekend
Tickets for night-time slots on 17 January go on sale as gallery opens for 24 hours for second time in its history
Nadia Khomami Arts and culture correspondent
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2025/jan/09/national-gallery-all-nighter-van-gogh-poets-lovers-final-weekend