Category Archives: TV

2025.11.13

Worried you’ll burn your potatoes or leave your turkey in the oven too long this Thanksgiving? Then check out one of the several restaurants serving up the classics. Bring Me The News has a list of Twin Cities eateries open on the holiday. Via MinnPost
https://bringmethenews.com/minnesota-lifestyle/where-to-get-thanksgiving-dinners-at-twin-cities-restaurants-in-2025

Despite misses, ‘Purple Rain’ has enough hits to honor Prince’s remarkable legacy
Actor Kris Kollins succeeds musically more than theatrically, but is lifted by a strong supporting team.
by Sheila Regan
https://www.minnpost.com/artscape/2025/11/despite-misses-purple-rain-has-enough-hits-to-honor-princes-remarkable-legacy/

‘Whatever it takes’: Starbucks workers launch US strike and call for boycott
Unfair labor practice strike on ‘red cup day’ in over 25 cities comes amid stagnant negotiations with coffee chain
Michael Sainato
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/nov/13/starbucks-workers-launch-strike

Alan Rickman’s personal scripts and mementoes up for auction
Lots include the annotated shooting script for Die Hard and a hand-drawn Halloween card from his Harry Potter co-star Rupert Grint
Andrew Pulver
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2025/nov/13/alan-rickman-scripts-mementoes-auction-die-hard-harry-potter

Mexico takes action to combat sexual abuse after president publicly groped
Secretary for women presents plan, including prison sentences, after Claudia Sheinbaum was groped on street
Oscar Lopez in Mexico City
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/nov/13/mexico-sexual-abuse-president-groped

‘What, no ziti now?’: US pasta lovers fear Trump tariffs will cause shortage
A potential 107% tariff on Italian pasta imports could cause companies to withdraw from US market – and for US producers to raise their prices
Alaina Demopoulos
https://www.theguardian.com/food/2025/nov/13/pasta-italian-imports-trump-tariffs

Review
The Beast in Me review – Claire Danes’s astonishing new thriller is instant top–tier TV
This taut psychological two-hander between Danes and Matthew Rhys will surely win awards. You cannot look away
Lucy Mangan
https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2025/nov/13/the-beast-in-me-review-claire-danes-thriller-netflix

Whoopi Goldberg at 70: her 10 best films – ranked!
The actor and comedian was Oscar-nominated for her film debut 40 years ago, then won an Academy Award just five years later. As she turns 70, we rate Goldberg’s greatest hits
By Ryan Gilbey
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2025/nov/13/whoopi-goldberg-at-70-her-10-best-films-ranked

James Van Der Beek to sell Dawson’s Creek ‘treasures’ to pay for cancer treatment
Actor, 48, who revealed colorectal cancer diagnosis last year, to also auction memorabilia from Varsity Blues
Gabrielle Canon
https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2025/nov/12/james-van-der-beek-dawsons-creek-memorabilia

2025.11.09

Retired Australian teacher discovers the oldest fossil of its kind in southern hemisphere – and a new species
Robert Beattie, 82, has found specimens of a 151m-year-old midge that challenge what we know about how the insects evolved
Donna Lu
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2025/nov/09/retired-australian-teacher-discovers-new-fossil-species-oldest-in-southern-hemisphere

Review
All Her Fault review – Sarah Snook’s terrifying thriller is an absolute pleasure to watch
This extraordinarily tight child kidnap drama knits all its threads together brilliantly – and the mighty Snook of Succession fame shines as a mother whose son is missing
Lucy Mangan
https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2025/nov/07/all-her-fault-review-sarah-snook-andrea-mara

Continental thrift: five of the best cities in Europe for vintage shopping
From flea markets in Berlin to thrift stores in Athens, a vintage shopping veteran picks her favourite places to shop for preloved bargains and unique souvenirs
Sarah Rodrigues
https://www.theguardian.com/travel/2025/nov/09/continental-thrift-five-of-the-best-cities-in-europe-for-vintage-shopping

The best Advent calendars in the US: 19 unique picks for a delightful Christmas countdown
From wine to whisky, beauty treats to candy surprises, these are our favorite Advent calendars to make the holidays merry and bright
Bernadette Machard de Gramont
https://www.theguardian.com/thefilter-us/2025/nov/08/best-advent-calendars-us-christmas-gifts


2025.11.08

BBC ‘100% fake news’, says Donald Trump’s press secretary
Comments by Karoline Leavitt follow allegations that Panorama documentary misled viewers with its editing of a Trump speech
Geraldine McKelvie
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2025/nov/08/bbc-100-fake-news-says-donald-trumps-press-secretary

Trespasses: ​Gillian Anderson steals every scene in this miraculous TV heartbreaker
Lola Petticrew and Tom Cullen’s chemistry in this tale of secret passion during the Troubles will floor you. But it is Anderson as a sour, ragey alcoholic who truly mesmerises
Rhik Samadder
https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2025/nov/08/trespasses-gillian-anderson-steals-every-scene-in-this-miraculous-tv-heartbreaker

‘There is bounty almost everywhere’: why you’ll always find me in the flea market on my travels
Forget sightseeing, secondhand shopping is now a major draw for tourists. A seasoned bargain-hunter shares her tips on picking up the best vintage finds when travelling abroad
Sarah Rodrigues
https://www.theguardian.com/travel/2025/nov/08/flea-market-vintage-thrift-souvenir-shopping

2025.11.07

“Books written or translated into Hmong are relatively rare,” MPR News writes, but one initiative is helping writers self-publish books in the language. “This weekend, Untamed Roots Collective is launching self-published books in Hmong from more than a dozen authors.” Via MinnPost
https://www.mprnews.org/episode/2025/11/06/new-twin-citiesbased-initiative-helps-authors-selfpublish-books-in-hmong

Review
Pluribus review – the audacity of the Breaking Bad creator’s new TV show is incredible
It takes some chutzpah to make television like this. Better Call Saul star Rhea Seehorn is the only US citizen immune from an alien virus that makes everyone in the world supremely happy – and it’s a bleak, blackly comic watch
Lucy Mangan
https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2025/nov/07/pluribus-review-breaking-bad-creators-tv-show-apple-tv

Interview
‘I was the only out queer guy in rock’: Faith No More’s Roddy Bottum
Stevie Chick
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2025/nov/07/faith-no-more-roddy-bottum-queer-memoir-interview

‘If there’s a free alternative, I’ll eat healthily’: how Sweden devised brilliant school meals
A pilot scheme where students eat nutritious breakfasts using donated surplus food builds on the ‘folkhem’ welfare model to boost health and sustainability
By Jonna Dagliden Hunt
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/nov/07/if-theres-a-free-alternative-ill-eat-healthily-how-sweden-devised-brilliant-school-meals

Beans, beans, the magical fruit: how healthy are they really?
Research shows beans are good for the body and for the planet. Here’s what to know about getting more in your diet
Adrienne Matei
https://www.theguardian.com/wellness/2025/nov/06/beans-healthy-food

‘Fabulous 50s dresses and even a kilt’: readers’ favourite vintage shops and markets in Europe
Our tipsters rummage through thrift stores and markets from Budapest to Bologna
Guardian readers
https://www.theguardian.com/travel/2025/nov/07/readers-favourite-vintage-shops-flea-markets-europe

2025.06.28

From soul food to Little Mekong Market to Pride, a jam-packed Twin Cities weekend
Twin Cities events will celebrate Pride, Indigenous fashion, and food from the African and Southeast Asian diasporas this weekend.by Myah Goff
https://sahanjournal.com/arts-culture/things-to-do-twin-cities-pride-soul-food-little-mekong-night-market/

Bringing back the ‘gayborhood’ in Loring Park: New Pride Cultural Arts Center debuts
Sam Stroozas
https://www.mprnews.org/story/2025/06/27/twin-cities-pride-cultural-arts-center-opens-in-minneapolis

Sven Sundgaard: Heat dome loosens its grip; several rounds of severe storms possible
Cooler air arrives in the East and Midwest, but repeated rounds of storms will continue on the northern edge of the retreating heat dome.
Meteorologist Sven Sundgaard
https://bringmethenews.com/minnesota-weather/sven-sundgaard-heat-dome-loosens-its-grip-several-rounds-of-severe-storms-possible

Sudden loss of key US satellite data could send hurricane forecasting back ‘decades’
Scientists left scrambling amid hurricane season after defense department says it will drop irreplaceable program
Eric Holthaus
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jun/28/noaa-cuts-hurricane-forecasting-climate

Federal agents blast way into California home of woman and small children
Security footage shows agents setting off explosive device and shattering window of family home in Huntington Park
Dara Kerr
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jun/27/california-home-raid-huntington-park

Killed ex-Minnesota lawmaker Melissa Hortman lies in state alongside husband and dog
Minnesotans lined up outside the state capitol to pay their respects to the house speaker assassinated in her home
Rachel Leingang in St Paul, Minnesota
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jun/27/melissa-hortman-lies-in-state-minnesota

Wall Street shivers over ‘hot commie summer’ after Mamdani’s success
New York’s financial elite compare the city to crime-riddled Gotham after democratic socialist bests Cuomo in Democratic mayoral primary
Edward Helmore in New York
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jun/28/hot-commie-summer-zohran-mamdani

Beautiful, isolated and expensive: US expats on life in New Zealand
Americans are showing renewed interest in moving to NZ. Those who have made the leap love its free healthcare and natural beauty, but warn fleeing is not a ‘golden parachute’
Eva Corlett in Wellington
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jun/28/beautiful-isolated-and-expensive-us-expats-on-life-in-new-zealand

Summer sizzlers! It’s the 20 hottest TV shows of the season
Steamy love affairs! Joanna Lumley as the Addams Family gran! Liz Hurley’s big cash giveaway! Here are all the best shows coming your way
Kate Abbott and Alexi Duggins
https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2025/jun/27/summer-sizzlers-its-the-20-hottest-tv-shows-of-the-season

From mochi ice cream to strawberry sandos, Japanese sweet treats are tickling UK tastebuds
These small, joyful indulgences are ‘an antidote to life’s uncertainties’, food trend watchers say
Mabel Banfield-Nwachi
https://www.theguardian.com/food/2025/jun/28/mochi-ice-cream-strawberry-sandos-japanese-sweet-treats-uk

2025.06.26

Mamdani’s defeat of Cuomo offers Democrats a path out of the wilderness
David Smith in Washington
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jun/25/zohran-mamdani-nyc-mayor-election-democrats

Zohran Mamdani offered New Yorkers a political revolution – and won
Bhaskar Sunkara
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jun/25/zohran-mamdani-offered-a-political-revolution-and-won

Trump is angry with a world that won’t give him easy deals
Rafael Behr
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jun/25/donald-trump-angry-middle-east-ukraine

Dollar falls to three-year low after report Trump may name next Fed chair early
US president has clashed with incumbent Jerome Powell, whose term is due to run for 11 more months
Joanna Partridge
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/jun/26/us-dollar-falls-to-three-year-low-after-report-trump-may-name-next-fed-chair-early

Pam Bondi denies knowing Ice agents wore masks during raids despite video evidence
At hearing, US attorney general claims she’s unaware of reports that officials have hid their faces during roundups
Robert Tait in Washington
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jun/25/ag-pam-bondi-ice-masks-raids

The alarming rise of US officers hiding behind masks: ‘A police state’
Sam Levin in Los Angeles
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jun/25/immigration-officers-wearing-masks

RFK Jr’s new CDC vaccine panel holds first meeting amid controversy
Health secretary unilaterally appointed ACIP’s eight new members, several of which are critical of immunizations
Jessica Glenza
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jun/25/cdc-vaccine-panel-rfk-acip

RFK Jr’s vaccine panel recommends new RSV treatment for infants
Move comes after health secretary replaced advisory board with ideological allies and several vaccine skeptics
Jessica Glenza
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jun/26/rfk-jr-vaccine-panel-rsv-treatment-infants

Costa Rican court orders government to free migrants who were deported by US
About 200 people were brought to the country in February under an agreement with the Trump administration
Agence France-Press in San José
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jun/25/costa-rica-court-deportations-trump

BBC to start charging US-based consumers for news and TV coverage
‘Premium experience’ for US users will include BBC News livestream as broadcaster looks overseas for income boost
Michael Savage Media editor
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2025/jun/26/bbc-usa-paid-subscription-news

California vice-mayor under fire after allegedly urging gangs to ‘organize’ over Ice
Cynthia Gonzalez of Cudahy appeared to call on street gangs for ‘help’ amid immigration raids in Los Angeles
Associated Press
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jun/25/california-vice-mayor-cynthia-gonzalez-ice

James Webb telescope captures direct images of Saturn-sized exoplanet
TWA 7b is 110 light years away and by far the smallest-mass planet to be observed by direct imagery
Hannah Devlin Science correspondent
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2025/jun/25/james-webb-space-telescope-first-direct-images-exoplanet

A dog cemetery would not be treated like this’: the fight to preserve Black burial grounds in the US
In the absence of federal oversight, Black communities band together to stave off development on historic resting places
Melissa Hellmann
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jun/25/black-burial-grounds

Local News
Mikayla Raines, founder of Minnesota’s Save A Fox rescue, dies at 29, husband says
By Stephen Swanson
https://www.cbsnews.com/minnesota/news/mikayla-raines-dies-save-a-fox-rescue/

DOC updates Stillwater prison closing
Commissioner Paul Schnell says inmate transfers to other facilities have already begun, while decisions on what programs remain at Stillwater are being made.
Author: Dana Thiede
https://www.kare11.com/article/news/local/doc-updates-stillwater-prison-closing/89-7f18c013-a18f-415c-b880-e81e6e91ef81

Well! There’s a name you don’t see every day:  Patches Magickbeans
Man charged in North Shore tunnel crash that injured two construction workers
Estelle Timar-Wilcox
https://www.mprnews.org/story/2025/06/25/man-charged-north-shore-tunnel-crash-injured-two-construction-workers

Employment opportunities on the rise in Rochester
By Aaliyah Demry
https://www.kttc.com/2025/06/25/employment-opportunities-rise-rochester/

‘A belter of a movie’: Guardian readers’ best films of 2025 so far
From repressive military regimes in I’m Still Here to funny French teenage delinquents in Holy Cow, readers pick films that have moved them this year
Guardian readers
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2025/jun/25/a-belter-of-a-movie-guardian-readers-best-films-of-2025-so-far

Mel Brooks turns 99: the comedy icon’s best films – ranked!
Following the announcement of a sequel to Spaceballs, we assess the film-maker’s funniest movies, from the Hitchcock spoof High Anxiety to the impeccable Young Frankenstein
By Anne Billson
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2025/jun/26/mel-brooks-ranked-movies

The Bear season four review – finally becoming the show it was always destined to be
It’s outgrown the ‘Yes, chef!’ rages and screaming matches in the pantry and morphed into something more tender, beautiful – and endlessly moving. Let the happy tears flow
Jack Seale
https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2025/jun/26/the-bear-season-four-review-finally-becoming-the-show-it-was-always-destined-to-be

‘Intense’ novel about robot abused by her boyfriend/owner wins Arthur C Clarke science fiction award
Annie Bot by Sierra Greer wins £2,025 for ‘compelling tale that, like all good stories about robots, is ultimately about the human condition’
Lucy Knight
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2025/jun/25/arthur-c-clarke-science-fiction-award-annie-bot-sierra-greer

Unheard works by Erik Satie to premiere 100 years after his death
Pianist Alexandre Tharaud performs previously lost material by experimental French composer on a new album
Dalya Alberge
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2025/jun/26/unheard-works-by-erik-satie-to-premiere-100-years-after-his-death

How to turn the whole carrot into a Moroccan-spiced stew – recipe
Save those bright green carrot tops from the compost bin by whizzing them up into a spicy sauce for topping a North African-spiced carrot stew
Tom Hunt
https://www.theguardian.com/food/2025/jun/25/how-to-turn-the-whole-carrot-from-leaf-to-root-into-a-moroccan-spiced-stew-recipe-zero-waste-cooking

2025.06.16

The Glean
More on the Hortman assasination
For this morning’s Glean, I’m sharing a few headlines that add depth to our coverage of this weekend’s shootings.
https://www.minnpost.com/glean/2025/06/more-depth-on-the-hortman-assasination/

Violence is coming to define American political life
Stephen Marche
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jun/16/us-politics-violence-trump-parade-protests

‘Extremely disturbing and unethical’: new rules allow VA doctors to refuse to treat Democrats, unmarried veterans
Department of Veterans Affairs says the changes come in response to a Trump executive order ‘defending women’
Aaron Glantz
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jun/16/va-doctors-refuse-treat-patients

Ice raids target workers at Home Depots who build much of LA: ‘This community has been here for decades’
Chain has long maintained relationship with undocumented laborers who gather in parking lots, hoping to get hired for a day of painting or roofing
Maanvi Singh in Los Angeles
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jun/16/home-depot-ice-raids-los-angeles

Americans don’t see US supreme court as politically neutral, poll finds
Just 20% of respondents to Reuters/Ipsos poll saw court is politically neutral, a view shared people from both parties
Reuters
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jun/16/supreme-court-politically-neutral-poll

‘No way to invest in a career here’: US academics flee overseas to avoid Trump crackdown
Budding scholars pursue overseas jobs amid attacks on education and research, prompting fears of an American brain drain
Marina Dunbar
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2025/jun/15/academics-science-trump-university-crackdown

Why a professor of fascism left the US: ‘The lesson of 1933 is – you get out’
Jonathan Freedland
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jun/16/why-a-professor-of-fascism-left-the-us-the-lesson-of-1933-is-you-get-out

‘This is the looting of America’: Trump and Co’s extraordinary conflicts of interest in his second term
Bitcoin, internet, EVs, private dinners for hire – the list of pay-for-play and quid quo pro goes on, and on … and on
Ed Pilkington
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jun/16/trump-conflict-of-interest

The Guardian view on the Women’s prize for nonfiction: shining a light where it’s badly needed
Editorial
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jun/15/the-guardian-view-on-the-womens-prize-for-nonfiction-shining-a-light-where-its-badly-needed

Avant-Drag! review – queer artists light up the streets of Athens with joy and resistance
Drag is a tool of self-expression and of protest in this kaleidoscopic portrait of the city’s vibrant underground art
Phuong Le
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2025/jun/16/avant-drag-review-queer-artists-athens

‘Who else can we annoy with our show?’: Such Brave Girls, Britain’s most gleefully offensive comedy returns
Rachel Aroesti
https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2025/jun/15/such-brave-girls-kat-sadler-bbc-lizzie-davidson-louise-brealey

2025.05.27

Viking Historian Answers Google’s Most Popular Questions About Vikings
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I5OeyH_SWD0&ab_channel=HistoryHit

‘My mother didn’t try to stab my father until I was six’: Alan Alda on childhood, marriage and 60 years of stardom
Simon Hattenstone
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2025/may/26/my-mother-didnt-try-to-stab-my-father-until-i-was-six-alan-alda-on-childhood-marriage-and-60-years-of-stardom

Soul icon Irma Thomas on the Stones, segregation and survival: ‘Restaurants refused to serve us – we lived on sardines and crackers’ Garth Cartwright https://www.theguardian.com/music/2025/may/26/irma-thomas-galactic-soul-queen-new-orleans

Autumn review – amazing landscape plays central role in Portuguese wine-family drama Set in the Douro valley, Antonio Sequeira’s softly drawn portrait of a family in flux never quite ferments to anything more than a light tipple about the passing of time Leslie Felperin https://www.theguardian.com/film/2025/may/27/autumn-review-amazing-landscape-plays-central-role-in-portuguese-wine-family-drama

The Venus Effect review – a sizzling queer romcom without the cliches A funny, heart-on-sleeve Danish drama that cleverly captures the complexities of coming out and queer identity with a character that wonders: am I gay enough to be gay? Catherine Bray https://www.theguardian.com/film/2025/may/27/the-venus-effect-review-a-sizzling-queer-romcom-without-the-cliches

St. Paul nonprofit Give Hope agrees to dissolve
The nonprofit was co-founded by chef Brian Ingram, who helps run Hope Breakfast Bar and other restaurants in the Twin Cities metro.
Todd Melby
https://www.mprnews.org/story/2025/05/26/st-paul-nonprofit-give-hope-connected-hope-breakfast-bar-dissolves

White House stunned as Hegseth inquiry brings up illegal wiretap claims
Exclusive: Trump advisers lose confidence in Pentagon leak investigation Hegseth used to justify firing three top aides
Hugo Lowell in Washington
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/may/27/hegseth-pentagon-leak-investigation-wiretap

She compared motherhood in four countries. The US isn’t looking good
A new book examines childcare policies across the globe – and asks whether parenthood in the US needs to be so hard
Carter Sherman
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/may/27/parenting-motherhood-childcare-trump-pronatalism

Squid Game to The Bear: 10 of the best TV shows to watch this June
Caryn James
https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20250522-10-of-the-best-tv-shows-to-watch-this-june

Creatine: The bodybuilding supplement that boosts brainpower
Jessica Bradley
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20250523-the-surprising-health-benefits-of-taking-creatine-powder

2025.05.24


13 Minnesota cities and counties want to open government-run cannabis dispensaries
Nicole Ki
https://www.mprnews.org/story/2025/05/23/minnesota-cities-and-counties-wait-to-open-cannabis-dispensaries

Expert calls Musk’s ‘Doge’ involvement ‘one of the greatest brand destructions’
Top US marketing professor Scott Galloway says on Pivot podcast Tesla owner ‘has alienated his core demographic’
Ramon Antonio Vargas
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/may/24/elon-musk-doge-scott-galloway

‘Alexa, what do you know about us?’ What I discovered when I asked Amazon to tell me everything my family’s smart speaker had heard
For years, Alexa has been our on-call vet, DJ, teacher, parent, therapist and whipping boy. What secrets would the data reveal?
Jeremy Ettinghausen
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/may/24/what-i-discovered-when-i-asked-amazon-to-tell-me-everything-alexa-had-heard

Sperm from cancer-risk donor used to conceive at least 67 children across Europe
Case of man carrying rare genetic variant fuels calls for limit on number of children that can be fathered by one donor
Hannah Devlin Science correspondent
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2025/may/23/sperm-donor-cancer-risk-children-europe

‘I had the audacity not to peg it!’ Timothy Spall on cancer, cosy crime and being heckled on the red carpet
Ryan Gilbey
https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2025/may/23/i-had-the-audacity-not-to-peg-it-timothy-spall-on-cancer-cosy-and-being-heckled-on-the-red-carpet

Sirat to Eddington and Sentimental Value: The 12 Cannes films you need to know about
Rebecca Laurence, Hugh Montgomery and Nicholas Barber
https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20250523-the-12-cannes-films-you-need-to-know-about

Director Stanley Kubrick’s house up for sale
Danny Fullbrook
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/crlj0g6100no

2025.05.17

What links Tasmin Archer, Gareth Gates and Zayn Malik? The Saturday quiz
From Tsar Alexander II and Queen Anne to Korky the Cat, test your knowledge with the Saturday quiz
Thomas Eaton
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2025/may/17/what-links-tasmin-archer-gareth-gates-and-zayn-malik-the-saturday-quiz

Top winemaker ‘may have to leave its Spanish vineyards due to climate crisis’
Familia Torres has been making wine in Catalonia since 1870, but says it may have to move to higher altitudes in 30 years’ time
Sarah Butler
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/may/17/top-winemaker-spanish-vineyards-climate-crisis-familia-torres

The Little Sister review – a discerning drama of queer Muslim coming-of-age
Hafsia Herzi manages sexuality with confidence in her first Palme d’Or competition film, featuring an affecting lead performance from newcomer Nadia Melliti
Peter Bradshaw in Cannes
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2025/may/16/the-little-sister-review-cannes-hafsia-herzi

Meera Sodha’s vegan recipe for crispy black bean burgers
These vegan burgers are child’s play and fun to make, too
Meera Sodha
https://www.theguardian.com/food/2025/may/17/meera-sodha-vegan-recipe-crispy-black-bean-burgers

Antihistamines, masks and showers: how to manage seasonal allergies
With pollen season in full swing, here is what to know about allergy treatments and when to seek medical help
Madeleine Aggeler
https://www.theguardian.com/wellness/2025/may/13/how-to-treat-manage-seasonal-allergies

The poison paradox: How Australia’s deadliest animals save lives
Katy Watson
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c0lnp3ny4wro

The camera tech propelling shows like Adolescence
Chris Baraniuk
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