Innholdsfortegnelse for December 17, 2021 i Newsweek

1935 After an underwhelming start to Gertrud Wettergren’s debut performance as Amneris in Aida at New York City’s Metropolitan Opera House, Newsweek wrote, “her performance grew in color and intensity in the course of the evening, and she received very enthusiastic applause after the tremendous scene of the fourth act…. Future performances will reveal the extent of this artist’s powers.” Following its closure for the duration of the 2020–21 season due to the pandemic, the Met reopened in late September and now permits in-person, full capacity, vaccinated audiences. 1975 “Around the nation and across the political spectrum, big government has emerged as the hot new ideological issue in the politics of ’76,” Newsweek said as Americans debated how much government involvement was “too much.” Now, the Biden Administration just signed…

RIZ AHMED IS MAKING A CAREER OUT OF BREAKING BARRIERS ON FILM and TV while also picking roles consistently different from his last. The first Muslim to be nominated for Best Actor (Sound of Metal) and the first Muslim and Asian actor to win an Emmy in a leading category (The Night Of), Ahmed continues to change perceptions in his new film Encounter (in theaters December 10). Directed by Michael Pearce, Ahmed plays Malik Khan, a father trying to protect his kids from a looming alien threat. But Ahmed says it’s more than just a science fiction film. “This is about something more pressing, more grounded.” And part of what grounds the film is Ahmed’s Malik. “He is someone who isn’t sure if he’s wanted in society, if he’s properly…

@Fish_og HUMAN ACTIVITY IS CAUSING THE EARTH’S ATMOSPHERE TO heat up much more quickly than any changes which might happen naturally, leaving many ecosystems at their breaking points. November’s United Nations COP26 climate summit in Glasgow was the first time a global climate deal explicitly identified fossil fuel consumption as a major driver of climate change. While climate experts regarded that as a step forward, however, many also warned the Glasgow attendees have not done enough to limit mean global warming to “well below” 2 degrees Celsius compared to pre-industrial levels—a key goal of the 2015 Paris Agreement. Climate Action Tracker (CAT) is an international consortium of nonprofit institutes founded in 2009 that studies climate change science and tracks the goals and policies of the 40 countries that produce 85…

“Dorsey didn’t really run Twitter by the end of it. The woke mob did.”—ENTREPRENEUR VIVEK RAMASWAMY GolfDigest “IT IS AN UNFORTUNATE REALITY, BUT IT IS MY REALITY, AND I UNDERSTAND IT AND I ACCEPT IT.”—TIGER WOODS ON THE STATUS OF HIS GOLF CAREER “This variant is a cause for concern—not a cause for panic.”—PRESIDENT JOE BIDEN “I believe in engaging with those we disagree with respectfully, but not when that disagreement is rooted in outright bigotry and hate.”—REPRESENTATIVE ILHAN OMAR “TO SAY THAT I WISH OUR SKINS MATCHED… SOMETIMES I DO.”—Sandra Bullock on raising African American children Medium “I will continue to struggle with the role that I unwittingly played within a system that sent an innocent man to jail.”—AUTHOR ALICE SEBOLD The New York Times “I’M TOO OLD NOW…

@roxysimons IN MAYOR OF KINGSTOWN, JEREMY RENNER stars as Mike McLusky, a powerful behind-the-scenes fixer who struggles to maintain peace between the various factions of cops, convicts and criminals in a grim Michigan town dominated by its seven prisons. Although it has yet to be renewed for a second season, with five of 10 episodes out so far, Mayor of Kingstown has quickly become one of streaming service Paramount+’s most popular shows and drew an impressive 3.2 million viewers for its premiere episode. Hugh Dillon, who created the show with actor/screenwriter/director Taylor Sheridan and also has a regular role in it as a police detective, says he drew on his own experience as a kid in Kingstown, Ontario. “I grew up in a town with nine penitentiaries, a maximum, a…

01 Love is an Ex-Country by Randa Jarrar CATAPULT CALIFORNIA TO CONNECTICUT You haven’t read this American road trip story before. Written during the Trump years, this memoir by Jarrar, a queer Muslim Arab American woman, tackles systemic racism, domestic violence, sexuality, trauma, body image and more as it crisscrosses the country with plenty of humor and heart to break up the journey. 02 World Travel: An Irreverent Guide by Anthony Bourdain and Laurie Woolever ECCO NEW YORK CITY While many felt wistful for adventure during the last year, the hole that Bourdain’s sudden death left as one of the most impactful travel voices of our time became even more clear with this collection of travel musings. In these essays from those that Bourdain knew well and his own words, we…