2025.03.27

Downtown St. Paul Lunds & Byerlys closes, leaving neighborhood without grocery store
https://www.mprnews.org/story/2025/03/26/downtown-st-paul-lunds-byerlys-closes

Lawmakers consider fixing ‘loophole’ that blocked records for police chief who resigned
Ryan Raiche KSTP
https://kstp.com/kstp-news/top-news/lawmakers-consider-fixing-loophole-that-blocked-records-for-police-chief-who-resigned/

Six reported dead after Egypt tourist submarine sinks in Red Sea – latest updates
Incident took place near the popular Egyptian Red Sea resort of Hurghada
Daniel Lavelle (now) and Tom Ambrose (earlier)
https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2025/mar/27/tourist-submarine-sinks-red-sea-egypt-hurghada-latest-news-updates

Johnny Mathis, 89, retires from performing due to ‘age and memory issues’
The US crooner, whose career stretches back to 1956, will play four more scheduled concerts but cancels remainder of 2025 run
Ben Beaumont-Thomas
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2025/mar/27/johnny-mathis-89-retires-from-performing-age-memory-issues

The White Lotus ‘goes too far’: Duke University unhappy over their prominence in show
Two characters in the troubled Ratliff family are Duke alumni, but the association has displeased the US university
Sian Cain
https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2025/mar/27/the-white-lotus-duke-university-complaints-ratliff

Arnold Schwarzenegger reacts to Patrick’s White Lotus incest scenes
Patrick Schwarzenegger’s wild incest storyline on The White Lotus season 3 has gotten a reaction from his dad, Arnold Schwarzenegger.
Taylor Henderson
https://www.out.com/celebs/white-lotus-patrick-schwarzenegger-incest-storyline-arnold-schwarzenegger

Kansas babysitter checking for monsters finds man hiding under bed
Police arrest suspect after sitter shocked to encounter man when trying to show child there was nothing under the bed
Guardian staff
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/27/babysitter-man-under-child-bed-kansas

‘I was surprised how common it is’: the director of Sebastian on his controversial film about an author who enters sex work
In Sebastian, a writer sells his body to provide material for his debut novel, then doesn’t give the night job up. Mikko Mäkelä explains what inspired his film – and remembers his cinematic sexual awakening
Ryan Gilbey
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2025/mar/27/sebastian-author-sex-work-mikko-makela

Let’s put it in language the Signal leakers will understand: what a bunch of pathetic sleazebags
Emma Brockes
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/mar/27/signal-leak-pathetic-sleazebags-maga-fratboy-lexicon

Yale professor who studies fascism fleeing US to work in Canada
Jason Stanley, who says grandmother fled Berlin with his father in 1939, says US may become ‘fascist dictatorship’
Rachel Leingang
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/26/yale-professor-fascism-canada

The simple trick to change other people’s minds
David Robson
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20250326-the-mind-changing-method-measured-in-minutes

‘I have terminal cancer and lost my life savings to whisky barrel scammers’
Carla Basu
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cx2r7enl3d1o

I got ma bathroom window back from Hayes Windows. Two of the panes have been broken since I moved into the house a couple of years ago. 1907 textured window glass — I figured they could never match it, so I wanted them to switch the panes so that they ‘balanced’ rather than matched. (The other company I had bid said it was ‘impossible.’)