It is an uncomfortable experience, not only because of the depictions of sordid violence and ritualistic mutilation but the sangfroid clinical fashion by which it occurs. Renowned for its grimy and bleak Victorian black and white aesthetic, it has recently been published in a new Master Edition revised by Campbell himself ‘for color, clarity, and continuity’.Įngaging with From Hell from the perspective of a GP, one feels compelled to reflect on certain issues with a different perspective to the casual reader. His fictionalised involvement forms the basis of writer Alan Moore and illustrator Eddie Campbell’s celebrated and (highly) graphic novel From Hell. 1 It remains intriguing, particularly within the medical community, that Gull was one of the numerous suspects implicated with the notorious and unsolved Whitechapel murders ascribed to Jack the Ripper. He is on Twitter: ir William Gull was a prominent Victorian era physician who amongst many contributions to clinical medicine is credited with the classic description of anorexia nervosa and the aetiology of myxoedema. Sati Heer-Stavert is a GP with an interest in philosophy.
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Instead, we've been journeying with Padawan Sav Malagán and Maz Kanata's crew as they take on the Dank Graks in some wacky misadventures. If you've been following solicits, all roads are leading to Jedha, but the series itself hasn't even hinted at that. Issue #4 is hitting shelves this week, and I am happy to confirm that business has finally picked up.ĭaniel José Older, up to this point, has spent the first three issues building out the characters and their various quirks, while obscuring the full scope of the series. We're kicking things off early with a look at the latest from Dark Horse's The High Republic Adventures flagship series. Happy May the 4th week everyone! Star Wars comics is taking the occasion seriously with a total of seven releases this coming Wednesday. At age seven, Andre was returning balls from a souped-up machine he called “The Dragon,” which spit out balls at 110 mph. A six-year old Agassi was on the tennis court four to five hours a day. This past weekend, on 60 Minutes, Katie Couric interviewed Andre Agassi, learning that his tennis career started as a toddler when his father used to tie ping-pong paddles to his hands. Agassi bares it all and shows that the spotlight sometimes isn’t as glamorous as we make it out to be. He admits that his dad drove him into a career that he never wanted in the first place. In the release of his new book, Open: An Autobiography, Agassi provides insight into his life that only a select number of people knew about beforehand. Andre Agassi, one of the United States’ greatest tennis players of all time, was a meth-head for almost a year back in the late ’90s. The two sued each other in 1958, though it is unclear whether they reached an implicit agreement to do so for publicity as the movie suggests. Walter and Banducci did indeed fight: Banducci punched Keane for “using obscenity in the presence of a lady,” according to the Chronicle, and Keane was arrested for drunkenness. It wasn’t until over a year after he began this practice that Margaret visited the hungry i one night and discovered that Walter was taking credit for her work. Margaret, who was more shy than Walter, would paint at home while he sold her works in the club. The paintings first became popular after hanging in Enrico Banducci’s hungry i nightclub on Jackson Street in San Francisco. Walter used a brawl with a night club owner to promote the paintings But hers are not so big and belong as unvaryingly to nubile girls as his belong to what appear to be war waifs.” (Later in the article, the reporter cites critics who say Margaret’s style is superior to Walter’s-even though we now know that all the paintings were by Margaret.) The profile goes on to say: “Margaret, it is true, paints eyes a little like those for which her husband is famous. Walter did acknowledge that Margaret (Amy Adams), too, was a painter, but the paintings credited to her had slightly smaller almond-shaped eyes with a different style. A groundbreaking, best-selling work when it was originally published in 1955, Gift from the Sea continues to be discovered by new generations of readers. With great wisdom and insight Lindbergh describes the shifting shapes of relationships and marriage, presenting a vision of life as it is lived in an enduring and evolving partnership. And by recording her thoughts during a brief escape from everyday demands, she helps readers find a space for contemplation and creativity within their own lives. A mother of five, an acclaimed writer and a pioneering aviator, Lindbergh casts an unsentimental eye on the trappings of modernity that threaten to overwhelm us: the time-saving gadgets that complicate rather than simplify, the multiple commitments that take us from our families. Drawing inspiration from the shells on the shore, Lindbergh’s musings on the shape of a woman’s life bring new understanding to both men and women at any stage of life. In this inimitable, beloved classic-graceful, lucid and lyrical-Anne Morrow Lindbergh shares her meditations on youth and age love and marriage peace, solitude and contentment as she set them down during a brief vacation by the sea. Innosanto may not be a familiar name to the Indonesian public, unlike his father, Ikranagara, a respected actor, known for his brilliant acting in one of Indonesia’s best films of all time, the 1986’s Kejarlah Daku Kau Kutangkap (Chase Me and I’ll Catch You).īut Innosanto is relatively known in the United States, thanks to A is for Activist (2012), a children’s book that introduces activism and social justice through the alphabet. Based in Oakland, California, the 48 year old did not have an American accent when speaking his father’s tongue, in fact he had something of a leftover Jakarta youth accent. His Indonesian turned out to be fluent and smooth, rarely did he insert English words into his sentence, but for one or two phrases that he struggled to articulate. “Please understand, it has been 30 years since I lived in Indonesia,” he said at the start of the event that was initiated by Cholil Mahmud from the band Efek Rumah Kaca. Author and graphic designer Innosanto Nagara began his presentation with an apology to the “Books and Activism ” discussion audience in South Jakarta recently, noting that his Indonesian might sometimes be off. A young poet in ‘Songbook’ with host Vaughn Ryan Midder. This is the latest digital offering for all ages through the Kennedy Center’s Digital Stage, but the first reality/scripted hybrid format, with Preston and host Vaughn Ryan Midder (The Kennedy Center’s The Watsons Go to Birmingham – 1963 and Bud, Not Buddy) largely scripted, while the young people are not. A young poet has her original poem set to music by professional musician Randy Preston in an episode of ‘Songbook.’ Photo by Sean DeWitt. They meet for the first time on camera, and their collaboration is filmed without interruption. In each 10-minute Songbook episode, a different middle school student comes to the Kennedy Center with her own original poem, based on a book, to set that poem to music with professional musician Randy Preston (The Kennedy Center’s Acoustic Rooster’s Barnyard Boogie Starring Indigo Blume). Filled with music, literature, comedy, and plenty of surprises, all episodes of Songbook launch January 21, 2023, on the Kennedy Center website, the Center’s YouTube channel, and Kennedy Center social media. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts announces the debut of Songbook, an exciting and innovative new three-episode online series featuring young people and a professional musician. Rebecca Skloot learns in a biology class at an early age about the “donor cells” and is immediately intrigued by the woman who supposedly volunteer her cancerous cells that have since become a multi-million dollar industry and enabled almost all medical research anywhere to be conducted. This book has less of a call to arms feel about it but it is consciousness-raising. Once again, the author pushes the story forward, alternating chapters with the history of Henrietta herself, her descendants and development of her cells as used in modern medical research. Whereas The Tiger was almost purely reporting, Henrietta Lacks is also part memoir. Between The Tiger ( see my review here) and then The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot, I’m revising all of my previously held assumptions. Someone has to usually hold me down and drip water on my forehead before I’ll read non-fiction. I find the concept of this utopian world to be unique. Her happy childhood and lack of access to historical knowledge has made it so she doesn’t know what a monster looks like. Jam grows up in a world where she can thrive as a Black trans girl. The knowledge of their crimes is swept into the archives of Lucille’s library. The world of Akwaeke Emezi’s Pet is unique because it’s one where monsters have been wiped from existence. Forgetting is how the monsters come back.” - from Pet by Akwaeke Emezi. Jam must fight not only to protect her best friend, but also to uncover the truth, and the answer to the question - How do you save the world from monsters if no one will admit they exist? Pet has come to hunt a monster, and the shadow of something grim lurks in Redemption’s house. But when she meets Pet, a creature made of horns and colours and claws, who emerges from one of her mother’s paintings and a drop of Jam’s blood, she must reconsider what she’s been told. With doting parents and a best friend named Redemption, Jam has grown up with this lesson all her life. There are no more monsters anymore, or so the children in the city of Lucille are taught. However, Alving was something of a cad and serial adulterer, and one reason Helene has built the orphanage is to deplete her husband’s wealth. Photo by Nancy Caldwell / PNGĪs the play opens, Helene Alving is preparing to dedicate an orphanage to her late husband, Captain Alving. And I think that makes it very interesting.” Francis Winter, Tanya Dixon-Warren and Elizabeth Willow star in United Players’ production of Ibsen’s Ghosts at Jericho Arts Centre Nov. We’re always dealing with sons and daughters. “It’s tame, but now what makes it a compelling piece of theatre is the family dynamics,” said director Michael Fera. However, the 1891 play, with its frank discussion of venereal disease and adultery, probably won’t send today’s audiences reeling. By bringing up forbidden topics and attacking contemporary morality, Ghosts became one of the Norwegian playwright’s most controversial works. When Henrik Ibsen’s followup to A Doll’s House was first staged, theatregoers and the press were more scandalized then impressed. The next issue of Sunrise presented by Vancouver Sun will soon be in your inbox. If you don't see it, please check your junk folder. Manage Print Subscription / Tax ReceiptĪ welcome email is on its way.Vancouver Sun Run: Sign up & event info. |