The lead singer of British alternative pop group Glass Animals, who was nominated for best new artist, tested positive for coronavirus, and the group said all its members have decided not to attend the awards ceremony. Instagram post Sunday. The post said that Dave Bayley was the only one out of four band members to …
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Shortly after the most triumphant moments of their lives, the winning Olympic athletes are holding stuffed animals in a plastic shell, not the medals they’ve dreamed of for decades, if not years. The end of each medal awarding event is immediately followed by a celebratory ceremony, but the athletes do not receive their medals until …
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Martine Colette, founder of Wildlife Waystation, a haven for exotic animals that ran just outside the city limits of Los Angeles for 43 years, died at a hospital in Lake Havasu, Ariz, on January 23. She was 79 years old. Journalist and friend Jerry Brown said the cause was lung cancer. The Waystation, which Miss …
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What would films be without difficult, cold, difficult, dispensable women? This is one of the takeaways from director Dominik Moll’s “Only the Animals,” a sarcastic French puzzle about a disappearing woman. Its disappearance arouses the usual interest; It helps that he is white and rich. There’s a police investigation and news reports and plenty of …
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In a WORLD filtered from the screens, a situation that has become even more acute during the pandemic quarantine, the most anachronistic excitement of the theater seems to be watching the lives unfolding before us. The players may not be literally within our reach, but the absence of a barrier between us and them, the …
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The scenes told in Indiana farmlands and elsewhere seem like something straight out of a horror novel where black vultures descend into the woods and pastures of the Midwest and beyond. Farmers describe savage attacks on their animals: burials, big black birds with humpbacks feasting on newborn calves as they emerge from their mothers, and …
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London-based ceramist born in Corfu, Greece agalis manesi69 creates his animals—recumbent hounds, vigilant rabbits—from terracotta clay pellets that he squeezes and manipulates “until a figure emerges.” His technique is centuries old majolicaIn it, he fires his creatures and then immerses them in a solution of tin oxide glass, which gives an opaque white finish. He …
Nick, a harbor seal, delved into the annals of the history of astronomy when Guido Dehnhardt, now a marine biologist at the University of Rostock, was studying how cetaceans orient themselves. Dr. Dehnhardt and colleague Björn Mauck suggested that if seals can distinguish stars, this may help explain how animals are able to complete long …
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ANIMALS COUNCILby Nick McDonell In my favorite childhood books, animals always talked. But in books I’ve read as an adult, talking monsters have been replaced by human characters – equally made, but often less charismatic. Still, I miss these wise, humane creatures very much, so I was delighted to open Nick McDonell’s novel “The Animal …
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