Event commemorates folk-blues icon Lead Belly’s 1948 Minneapolis house concert
Twin Cities musicians will showcase the famous recording in a concert Friday at the Cedar Cultural Center.
by Britt Robson
https://www.minnpost.com/arts-culture/music/2025/11/event-commemorates-folk-blues-icon-lead-bellys-1948-minneapolis-house-concert/
‘We’ve got to release the dead hand of the past’: how Ireland created the world’s best alternative music scene
Irish indie acts used to be ignored, even on Irish radio. But songs confronting the Troubles, poverty and oppression are now going global – and changing how Ireland sees itself
Anna Cafolla
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2025/nov/21/ireland-worlds-best-alternative-music-scene
The FBI spied on a Signal group chat of immigration activists, records reveal
Exclusive: Agency accessed private conversations of New York ‘courtwatch’ group that was observing public hearings
Sam Levin
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/nov/21/fbi-signal-group-chat-immigration
‘Toxic’: California ex-police chief tells of colleagues’ racist harassment campaign
Shawny Williams, who tried to reform Vallejo police department, says threats to his safety led him to resign
Roque Planas
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/nov/21/california-vallejo-police-department
US men indicted for alleged coup plot to kill and rape people on Haitian island
Texans planned to utilize unhoused US people to take over Gonâve and fulfill ‘rape fantasies’, justice department says
Jeremy Barr
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/nov/21/texas-haiti-rape-indictment
Up, up and away: Superman comic found in attic sells for $9.12m to become most expensive ever sold
The pristine copy of Superman No 1, the character’s first solo title from 1939, was discovered in an attic in California last year
Sian Cain
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2025/nov/21/superman-no1-becomes-most-expensive-comic-ever-sold
Experience: I found an old Rembrandt in a drawer
I guessed it would be worth a couple of hundred pounds at most, but it was a preparatory print for his famous 1639 etching The Goldweigher
Edward Barlow
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2025/nov/21/experience-i-found-an-old-rembrandt-in-a-drawer
Portrait of Elisabeth Lederer: Why this mysterious Klimt painting sold for $236m
Kelly Grovier
https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20251118-why-klimts-portrait-of-elisabeth-lederer-painting-sold-for-150-million-dollars
Interview
‘I think my mum’s going to like it’: Alexander Skarsgård on his gay biker ‘dom-com’ Pillion
Ryan Gilbey
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2025/nov/21/i-think-my-mums-going-to-like-it-alexander-skarsgard-on-his-gay-biker-dom-com-pillion
Three-metre giant oarfish, ‘palace messenger’ of doom, washes up on Tasmanian beach
The enormous, serpentine fish, regarded in Japanese folklore as a herald of disaster, usually live deep below the surface and are only sighted when sick or dying
Petra Stock
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/nov/21/giant-oarfish-washes-up-on-tasmanian-beach
Colombian scientists recover first treasures from ‘holy grail of shipwrecks’
Cannon, three coins and a cup taken from San José, a 1708 wreckage that could hold items worth billions of dollars
Guardian staff and agencies in Bogotá
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/nov/21/san-jose-shipwreck-billions-treasure-artifacts-colombia
Eleven injured after grizzly bear attacks schoolchildren and teachers in Canada
Two critically hurt after attack on walking trail in British Columbia as police and conservation officers search for bear
Associated Press
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/nov/21/grizzly-bear-attacks-children-teachers-canada-british-columbia
We just passed the city inspection of the solar installation. Next is the power company inspection.