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☆ Life at Guantánamo Bay
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-31 | by ( Desiree Ibekwe | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Around 780 people have been detained at the prison at Guantánamo Bay since it opened in January 2002. The podcast “Serial,” which debuted in 2014 with the story of a questionable murder conviction, has dedicated its new season to Guantánamo. Over nine episodes, it tells the story of the prison through a personal lens, by way of conversations with people who worked or were detained there. Desiree: There’s an interesting political story to be told about Guantánamo, but why did you decide to tell this story through the people who lived through it? Sarah: The government threw all of these normal people on Guantánamo, and they had to sort out how on earth are we supposed to behave in here, how are we supposed to make sense of this?

Persons: Sarah Koenig, Dana Chivvis, Desiree, There’s, Sarah Organizations: Guantánamo Locations: Guantánamo

☆ Climate Change and ‘Last-chance Tourism’
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-03 | by ( Desiree Ibekwe | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

A lot of climate discussion revolves around time. Lines rise across charts predicting the next century. As the Earth warms, natural wonders — coral reefs, glaciers, archipelagos — are at risk of damage and disappearance. This has motivated some travelers to engage in “last-chance tourism,” visiting places threatened by climate change before it’s too late. (Early tourists included Mary Shelley and Mark Twain.)

Persons: it’s, ” Paige McClanahan, Mary Shelley, Mark Twain Organizations: Times Locations: Glace, French

☆ Rebooting a Classic
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-14 | by ( Desiree Ibekwe | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

There’s a stickiness to “Mean Girls” quotes. As a child, I watched the movie over and over on DVD, and the words wormed their way into my impressionable mind. “Every single sound bite.”Jayne is a co-director of a new version of “Mean Girls,” which came out on Friday. It’s an adaptation of an adaptation, refashioning songs from the 2018 Broadway musical based on the movie. Like its predecessor, the new “Mean Girls” follows Cady Heron (Angourie Rice), a teenager who has arrived at an American high school after being home-schooled by her zoologist parents in Kenya.

Persons: Samantha Jayne, “, ” Jayne, It’s, Cady Heron, Angourie Rice, Regina George, Reneé Rapp Organizations: Times Locations: Kenya

Omar Victor Diop History, inheritance and possibility are re-imagined through the lens of the Senegalese photographer, one of the most successful young artists on the continent. Through his bold images, Diop examines the interplay between African and diasporic experiences by knitting together the past and present. Douglass sat for over 160 portraits, including a daguerreotype circa 1855 (bottom), to challenge negative representations of African Americans. Cultural Archive/Alamy In a 2015 self-portrait (top), from Diop’s series “Project Diaspora,” the artist emulates Frederick Douglass, who was the most photographed man of his era. Douglass sat for over 160 portraits, including a daguerreotype circa 1855 (bottom), to challenge negative representations of African Americans.

Persons: Omar Victor Diop, Frederick Douglass, Diop, Selma, ”, ” Omar Victor Diop, Douglass, “, ” Diop, Mama Casset, Malick Sidibé, Samuel Fosso, Martin Luther King Jr Organizations: paisley, West Locations: Senegalese, American, United States, Soweto, South Africa, Africa, “, African American, Dakar, Paris, Nigeria, Senegal, France, Nairobi, Lagos, Mali, America, African

☆ Barbra Streisand, in Her Own Words
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-12 | by ( Desiree Ibekwe | More About Desiree Ibekwe | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

This year’s memoirs have kept ravenous consumers of celebrity culture well fed. Now, Barbra Streisand joins their ranks with “My Name Is Barbra,” a memoir released on Tuesday. At almost 1,000 pages, “it’s not a book you inhale,” the Times critic at large, Wesley Morris, writes. “Streisand is poring over, pouring out, her life.”Her childhood, in a Brooklyn housing project, was emotionally fraught. Her father died when she was just over a year old; her mother was emotionally unavailable, and her stepfather was distant.

Persons: Prince Harry plumbed, Britney Spears, Elliot Page, Patrick Stewart, Henry Winkler, Kerry Washington, Pamela Anderson, Barbra Streisand, “, ”, “ it’s, Wesley Morris, Streisand, Fanny Brice, Marlon Brando, Pierre Trudeau Organizations: Paris Hilton, Greenwich Village, Canadian Locations: Brooklyn

☆ What’s in Our Queue? ‘Talk to Me’ and More
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-26 | by ( Desiree Ibekwe | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

What’s in Our Queue? ‘Talk to Me’ and MoreI’m a writer for The Times’s Morning newsletter. My cultural consumption habits are engaged in a battle between a desire for familiar comforts and the craving for something new. Here are five things I’ve been reading, watching and listening to →

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☆ Martin Scorsese’s New Film
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-22 | by ( Desiree Ibekwe | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

The average blockbuster now runs thirty minutes more than films did in the 1990s, a recent Economist survey found. Martin Scorsese’s highly anticipated new film, “Killers of the Flower Moon,” is in theaters this weekend. In this case, though, fretting over the run-time might belie the thoughtfulness of Scorsese’s creation. The film, adapted from a best-selling nonfiction book by David Grann, is about the murders of members of the Osage Nation, a Native American tribe in Oklahoma, in the 1920s. Both the book and movie tell a story of violence, and of the ensuing investigation by an F.B.I.

Persons: It’s, Martin Scorsese’s, David Grann, Manohla Dargis, J, Edgar Hoover, Scorsese Organizations: Osage Locations: American, Oklahoma

☆ Lily Allen’s Second Act
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-17 | by ( Desiree Ibekwe | More About Desiree Ibekwe | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Lily Allen didn’t know why she agreed to be interviewed for this article. On a recent morning, sitting outside a London cafe, the British singer said she had paused earlier for a moment of reflection. Since Allen burst onto the pop music scene in the mid-00s with lilting reggae-infused tracks like “Smile,” her relationship with the press has been fraught. She has always been outspoken — in her lyrics, in interviews and on social media — and for many years, she was a fixture in Britain’s tabloid newspapers. “Especially when you’re in your early 20s, and you’re still trying to figure out who you are in the world.”

Persons: Lily Allen didn’t, ”, ” Allen, “ It’s, Allen, you’re Locations: London, British

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