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Throughout December and January, the CAPC team has compiled a list of our favorite pop culture artifacts from the previous year. Unlike most year-end lists, we don’t claim that these are the “best.” Rather, these are the things that brought us the most joy and satisfaction in the last 12 months.For 2024, our favorite music included goth icons, a hip-hop master, artful post-punk, Tay Tay, and more.Songs of a Lost World by The CureWhen an iconic band returns after a years-long absence, there’s always that fearful question: What if they’ve lost whatever it was that made them so special and…
She was an icon of 1990’s television; now Pamela Anderson is embarking on a new phase in her career, as she stars in “The Last Showgirl”. Film critic Emma Jones sat down with her at the Zurich film festival where they discussed her critically-acclaimed performance as a Las Vegas cabaret performer and how facing her fears is opening up new professional opportunities for the actress. And, we meet London-based artist Lakwena Maciver, whose artwork blends vibrant colours and bold statements. Finally, the Pompidou Centre mothballs its permanent collection before undergoing extensive renovations to the building. Source link
Vince Jones(Credit: Vince Jones)In pockets of the British countryside, it’s possible to stumble across clusters of beautifully designed, Scandi-style cabins. These aren’t a product of the latest trend for off-grid retreats, but were created half a century ago by a pair of Welsh architects, Hird & Brooks. How did they become gripped by crafting the perfect holiday home? And why were they so inspired by Denmark?By the 1970s, John Hird and Graham Brooks had already won a slew of major awards for their sleek, modernist post-war villas across the Vale of Glamorgan in Wales. But the highpoint of their careers…
YAOUNDÉ, Cameroon — A recent leak of campaign posters featuring Franck Biya, son of Cameroon’s long-serving President Paul Biya, has intensified discussions about the nation’s political future ahead of the October 2025 presidential election. The posters, which surfaced on social media after being leaked by workers at an unidentified printing press in Yaoundé, showcase Franck Biya alongside slogans promoting youth engagement and massive voter registration.The French-language posters bear the title “FEBISTE,” accompanied by the message: “Febistes, fer de lance de la nation, la jeunesse qui ose. Opération O’ Mulema: Un Cameroun jeune, une carte d’électeur – inscrivons-nous massivement! Rejoignez-nous dans…
Domitina Kahira, a resident of Biharamulo District in Tanzania’s north-eastern Kagera Region, is treading a difficult path to recovery after losing her husband to Marburg virus disease in early January 2025. Being a close contact of a person infected with the virus, she was admitted to a Marburg isolation centre for 21 days to monitor her health and avoid further possible transmission at home. Kahira was discharged and reunited with her family. But the grief from her husband’s death and the adjustment to life in the aftermath has taken a toll on her mental health. “I was worried about my…
Thierry de Montbrial is a French academic and geopolitical scientist. He is the founding president of the French Institute of International Relations (IFRI), a think tank he established in 1979. He is also a member of the Academy of Moral and Political Sciences. He has published L’Ère des affrontements: les grands tournants géopolitiques (The Age of Confrontation: Major Geopolitical Turning Points) with Dunod. He analyses the state of the world in the Trump era. A new generation is at the helm of IFRI. Is this a way of ensuring the sustainability of your think tank? I have created an institution…
Throughout December and January, the CAPC team has compiled a list of our favorite pop culture artifacts from the previous year. Unlike most year-end lists, we don’t claim that these are the “best.” Rather, these are the things that brought us the most joy and satisfaction in the last 12 months.For 2024, our favorite books focused on kids and tech, Christian artistry, small-town mysteries, cheerful apocalypses, manga creators, and more.The Anxious Generation by Jonathan HaidtOverprotection of children in the real world. Underprotection of children in the virtual world. These are the central claims of Jonathan Haidt’s The Anxious Generation: How the…
Critic Perrine Quennesson takes us through the latest releases in the world of French cinema, with two family stories that transport us to convincing versions of France in the 1960s and 1990s. “My Mother, God, And Sylvie Vartan” tells the story of a devoted mother, played by Leïla Bekhti, who is prepared to move mountains for her son. Meanwhile “Queen Mom” charts an immigrant family’s experience as they come up against stereotypes about North Africans and attempt to overcome the obstacles planted in their path; the film also offers a comical and fantastical take on one of the bogeymen of…
Alamy(Credit: Alamy)The recent discovery of an art forger’s workshop reminds us of the long history of fraudulent artworks – here are the simple rules to work them out.It’s everywhere: fake news, deep fakes, identity fraud. So ensnared are we in a culture of digitised deceptions, a phenomenon increasingly augmented by artificial intelligence, it would be easy to think that deceit itself is a high-tech invention of the cyber age. Recent revelations however – from the discovery of an elaborate, if decidedly low-tech, art forger’s workshop in Rome to the sensational allegation that a cherished Baroque masterpiece in London’s National Gallery is a crude simulacrum…
Recent cuts in foreign aid have forced Save the Children to suspend lifesaving programmes for malnourished children as a reported 131 million children live in areas experiencing acute food crises globally. In a remote corner of northern Afghanistan, where winter has set in, health workers are battling the clock to care for malnourished children as foreign aid cuts threaten to halt their efforts in the next 30 days, Save the Children said. For three and a half years, Dr Hanif* and his team at a Save the Children-supported clinic in northern Afghanistan have been the only lifeline for the community—providing essential care…