2025.01.17

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Afoutayi Haitian dance kicks off Winter Fest in Minneapolis’ 38th Street corridor
Also this weekend: Tehran on screen at MSP Film Society; Art Shanty Projects are back with taiko drumming and Native lacrosse; Chinese Dance Theater celebrates Lunar New Year.
by Myah Goff
https://sahanjournal.com/arts-culture/twin-cities-things-to-do-winter-fest-art-shanties-iranian-film/

Lost Ella Fitzgerald recordings to be released – including her take on 60s pop
Oakland concert recording from 1967 features jazz standards alongside unheard Fitzgerald versions of the era’s hits, including Alfie and Music to Watch Girls By
Ben Beaumont-Thomas
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2025/jan/17/lost-ella-fitzgerald-recordings-to-be-released-including-her-take-on-60s-pop

Judge allows lawsuit aiming to restrict abortion pills across US to proceed
Texas judge Matthew Kacsmaryk rules attorneys general of Idaho, Kansas and Missouri can continue mifepristone case
Carter Sherman
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jan/17/abortion-pill-mifepristone-lawsuit-texas

Opinion Neil Gaiman
Women’s claims of sexual abuse must be heard – unless they’re about master storyteller Neil Gaiman, apparently
Marina Hyde
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jan/17/neil-gaiman-allegations-sexual-assault

Former Oakland mayor Sheng Thao indicted months after being recalled
Indictment comes seven months after FBI raided her home, with formal announcement scheduled to happen on Friday
Abené Clayton
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jan/16/former-oakland-mayor-indicted-sheng-thao

Pompeii excavation unearths private spa for wooing wealthy guests
Thermal bath complex is latest discovery among ruins of Italian city destroyed by Vesuvius eruption in AD79
Angela Giuffrida in Rome
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jan/17/pompeii-excavation-private-spa-thermal-bath-complex-vesuvius-eruption-italy

A million-dollar challenge to crack the script of early Indians
Soutik Biswas
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c70q44zn18wo

O! Grasshopper: Voters who backed Trump identify new swamp to drain: corporate power
Saginaw county Republicans want new president to target big pharma, healthcare and food – can they rely on him?
Chris McGreal in Saginaw, Michigan
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jan/17/michigan-voters-trump-saginaw

Ranked
From Mulholland Drive to Twin Peaks via Lost Highway: all David Lynch’s films and TV shows – ranked
The great American film-maker died this week, leaving behind a body of work unmatched in its seductive strangeness and transcendent mystery. We put it in order
By Phil Hoad
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2025/jan/17/david-lynch-films-and-tv-shows-ranked

Sydney’s unusual sewerage system to blame for faecal and fat balls on beaches, experts claim
City invented Australia’s beach culture, environmentalist Richard Gosden says, but all this time ‘it’s been conducted in diluted sewage’
Catie McLeod
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/jan/18/sydney-beaches-debris-balls-cause-sewerage-system

Joan Plowright, celebrated star of stage and screen, dies aged 95
Actor helped shape British postwar theatre through her performances at the Royal Court, National Theatre and in the West End
Chris Wiegand Stage editor
https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2025/jan/17/joan-plowright-dies-after-long-stage-and-screen-career