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Powys County Times
28-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Powys County Times
Sidney Nolan Trust wins Lottery Heritage Fund grant
The Sidney Nolan Trust has been awarded £244,849 by The National Lottery Heritage Fund. The rural arts charity will use the grant to develop a masterplan for their historic sites. The funding will support strategic planning, audience consultation, building surveys, and pilot activities over the next 12 months. These initiatives will contribute to a masterplan aimed at increasing access and audience engagement, as well as realising the potential of the trust's two sites. The project will cover both the charity's heritage locations in the Welsh Marches: The Rodd, near Presteigne, in north Herefordshire, and the Bleddfa Centre, near Knighton, in Powys. These sites are integral to the local rural identity and heritage, connecting the England-Wales Borders to the world through art and agricultural histories. They also preserve and provide access to important natural habitats and offer engagement and participation opportunities in some of the most rural wards of England and Wales. The Rodd is a 400-plus-year-old estate and working farm in the Hindwell river valley, spanning 180 acres of farmland, woodland, river frontage, and gardens. At its heart is the Grade II* listed Jacobean Rodd Court and several 18th-century timber-framed barn structures, including the Grade II-listed West Barn. Rodd Court has been home to artists for over a century and became the final home of leading Australian artist Sir Sidney Nolan CBE RA (1917-1992) in 1983. The trust, founded by Nolan in 1985, looks after and makes accessible the largest collection of his artwork outside of Australia. The Bleddfa Centre, founded in 1974 in the remote village of Bleddfa by pioneering theatre director James Roose Evans, comprises community art, social, and event spaces across the former village schoolhouse and converted Hall Barn. Sophie Heath, director of the Sidney Nolan Trust, said: "It is wonderful to have received this hugely valued support from The National Lottery Heritage Fund. "Thanks to National Lottery players, we can take on the challenge of establishing an inclusive, thriving future for our unique places that provide access to inspiring heritage, nature, and creativity in our rural region." The support from the Heritage Fund will enable the Sidney Nolan Trust to bring in the resources and diverse expertise needed to plan strategically and sensitively to secure the future of these sites. Without this work, there is a significant risk to the long-term caretaking of this complex and large-scale heritage and landscape. The funding also protects and enhances the increased access and participation of regional audiences, addressing an acute need. The communities of north Herefordshire and Radnorshire in Powys are among the 50 per cent most deprived in the UK and face some of the worst indices nationally of geographical deprivation due to lack of access to services. The project will better protect and make more accessible the important built heritage and landscape the trust looks after through a wide range of expert building and land surveys, a feasibility report, and architectural visualisations. Staff and volunteers will receive training in species identification and surveys, and the monitoring of flora and fauna will establish baseline understanding and priorities for the future ecological management and improvement of the charity's varied habitats. There will be events and activities taking place throughout the project at The Rodd, the Bleddfa Centre, and online. The trust is looking for volunteers across a wide range of activities to get involved and support the project delivery.
Yahoo
20-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Man found dead in Washington County with accidental gunshot wound
WASHINGTON COUNTY, Utah () — A man was found in the Warner Valley area with what appeared to be an accidental, self-inflicted gunshot wound sustained while recreational shooting, according to the Washington County Sheriff's Office. Police said at 11:27 a.m. on Sunday, May 18, a call reported an adult man in the Warner Valley area who seemed to have accidentally shot himself. Crews arrived at the scene at 11:33 a.m. and took the man to the St. George Regional Hospital, where he was pronounced dead. Preliminary findings show that the man may have accidentally shot himself in his torso while he was recreational shooting in the Warner Valley area, according to police. Police said that there is no outstanding threat to the public. The incident is still under investigation. 'The Washington County Sheriff's Office expresses our gratitude to the Washington City Police Department, Washington City Fire Department, and Hurricane Valley Fire District for their assistance, and offer our sincere condolences to the family of the deceased,' the sheriff's office said in a statement. When to shine up your vintage treasure, and when to leave it be Senate unanimously approves bill to eliminate tax on tips Get the cowboy boots, it's a Barn Party for a cause Comedian Michael Yo brings the funny to Cirque du Soleil's Mad Apple Trump outlines 3-year timeline, $175B price tag on 'Golden Dome' Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
Newsweek
15-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Newsweek
Woman Thinks She's Alone in Bed with Husband—Then She Turns Over
Based on facts, either observed and verified firsthand by the reporter, or reported and verified from knowledgeable sources. Newsweek AI is in beta. Translations may contain inaccuracies—please refer to the original content. A woman who rolled over expecting to see her husband taking up all the space in the bed has left the internet in stitches after revealing who the actual culprit was. TikTok user Rachel Barn (@rachelbarn) shared a hilarious clip online of the moment she woke up because her "husband was taking up so much room." But when she turned over to look, she realized it wasn't her husband after all. Indeed, she was in fact greeted with the side of her Doberman sprawled out on his back in the middle of the bed. To make matters worse, the cheeky pup even had his head on the pillows for added comfort. Barn couldn't resist sharing footage of the moment she was "rudely" awoken by her Doberman on TikTok. Needless to say, social media users can't get enough of the dog taking up all the space, and the video has already amassed more than 3 million views and over 665,700 likes on TikTok at the time of writing. A stock image of a woman stretching out onto the other side of the bed. A stock image of a woman stretching out onto the other side of the bed. dragana991/Getty Images Newsweek has contacted Barn via TikTok for comment. We cannot verify the details of the video. This is undoubtedly a common sight among pet owners who know all too well how much space they take up. Allowing a pet to sleep in the bed may divide opinion, but it's certainly popular among owners of both cats and dogs. A poll by YouGov revealed that 67 percent of dog owners are happy to let them sleep in the bed, while 73 percent of cat owners report the same. It's not just for their own comfort, as there can also be many benefits to sleeping beside a pet. According to the Sleep Foundation, pets (especially dogs) can offer comfort and security at night, they can ease the symptoms of mental health conditions, help regulate emotions, and provide a relaxing effect. Interacting with a pet, such as stroking them, can ease the mind and boost the sense of tranquility. So, for many people, curling up beside them at night can help to switch off and promote wellness. Letting a pet sleep in the bed isn't without its risks however, as the Sleep Foundation highlights the germ exposure, nighttime disruptions, and potential for territorial behavior. For any owners who couldn't imagine sleeping without their four-legged friend beside them, the Sleep Foundation recommends using a large enough mattress, regularly washing all bedding, walking the pet before bed to tire them out, and keeping a consistent bedtime routine to maintain their circadian rhythm. The TikTok Reaction In the days since Barn revealed who was hogging the bed, the post has generated over 700 comments on TikTok already. Internet users were quick to defend the Doberman's antics and many lauded his commitment to getting enough sleep. One comment reads: "Poor guy. Give him some room on that bed ma'am." Another TikTok user wrote: "You let that hard working man sleep." Another person replied: "Why do dogs and babies sleep like they work 40 hours plus overtime?" While one commenter joked: "You're lucky that he lets you sleep in his bed." Do you have funny and adorable videos or pictures of your pet you want to share? We want to see the best ones! Send them in to life@ and they could appear on our site.
Yahoo
18-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Daryl Hannah Takes Us Behind the Scenes of ‘Coastal' with Neil Young
Daryl Hannah has spent most of her life making movies. As an actress, she's left a legacy of memorable performances in movies from Blade Runner and Splash to Kill Bill. And in recent years, she's focused her attention behind the camera, directing a series of intimate documentaries about her husband, Neil Young, including 2022's Grammy-nominated Barn. Her newest is Coastal, which follows Young as he embarks on his first tour in nearly four years, returning to live performing after the worldwide pandemic. The 2023 solo performances began in the 1,200-capacity Ford theater in Los Angeles, but a lot of the action in Coastal unfolds during conversations on his tour bus, with crew members and occasionally with Hannah herself, or backstage as the singer-songwriter prepares for each night. More from Spin: Exclusive: Sublime Unveil First Two Covers From Expanded Tribute LP Bruce Springsteen Nods To '90s Hip-Hop On 'Blind Spot' Nas, Wu-Tang Members Releasing New Albums With Mass Appeal The black-and-white film was shot by Hannah and her director of photography, Adam CK Vollick, and features several classic Young performances from the West Coast tour. It is also a gently evocative look at a major artist on the road, riding a bus outfitted with a train horn, as he sits shotgun with bus driver Jerry Don Borden, expressing his concerns for the environment, AI, and sipping from a Willie Nelson coffee mug. Nelson's son, Micah, a frequent Young sideman, created the animation seen in the movie. Hannah is also the niece of the late, Oscar-winning cinematographer Haskell Wexler, whose work stretched from One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest to the kind of hand-held cinema verite–style documentaries that Hannah's work with Young represents. Back in 2000, she directed an early attempt at documentary filmmaking, a behind-the-scenes look at the film Dancing at the Blue Iguana. Coastal appears in theaters today (April 17) for one night only, with a digital release still to be announced. The live album Coastal: The Soundtrack is also released today. More information is at SPIN: What influence did your uncle Haskell Wexler have on you as a filmmaker? I actually got to work on some of his documentaries. I held the microphone of the boom for one. And I joined him whenever I could, just observing and also helping out, doing whatever was needed. I particularly love the way that he focused a lot of his filmmaking on the cinema verite style. That's become my favorite style of documentary filmmaking too, rather than the talking heads thing that people are used to. You obviously have a lot of experience on major Hollywood productions. Was it easy to go from that to this cinema verite style and doing everything yourself? I really try to pay close attention to the directors and specifically the cinematographers on movies. I am fascinated by the process and really enjoy learning about it. The times that I have made films as a director, I really enjoy it because every decision is a creative decision, and it's something you really don't realize as an actor, because you're consumed with your character and your character's reality. You think maybe directing is more of a sort of administrative role, but in fact I find it to be wildly creative. That's really exciting and fulfilling. When you're focusing on someone you know as well as you know Neil Young, how does that play into what you're doing? Of course I have no idea what he's going to do [laughs] or say at any moment, and he's a very authentic human. He lives in the moment. And that's always interesting because some people, especially when they're a performer, tend to be a lot more manufactured in a certain way. Neil is absolutely the antithesis of that. I wanted to show that in this film. It is not really my intention to do a reality TV show or anything that people are more used to now. I just wanted to show his actual experience of being on a solo tour, which is much more of a human experience. There's a song that Neil plays in the documentary called 'I Am the Ocean.' In that song, one of the things that he refers to is people's need for distraction, for Entertainment Tonight, for expert witnesses, and random violence and all these things, like, gotta keep things moving! I was actually at that first show of the tour at the Ford theater in L.A. (). And Neil was seemingly making it up as he went along, and yet his crew always appears to know what to do. They do, but you see that at one point in the film, Bob Rice says, 'Shall we tune Old Black?' for such and such a song. And Neil says, 'Yes, well, it will reveal itself in the moment. You have a 50/50 chance.' And Bob laughs and says, 'I guess that's what we expect.' They're so accustomed to Neil because his crew has been with him for decades. When he moves towards an instrument, they know maybe a selection of 30, 40, maybe a hundred songs that it's possible he'll play next. So they start preparing themselves. They are all hyper-vigilant to understanding his inspiration. They have to be so on their toes because they're really following that with him. It's not like, 'Well, here's the set list. We rehearsed it for a month and a half, and we're gonna say this joke here and walk in front of the stage.' None of that is happening. One person whose name hovers over the tour is Willie Nelson. Neil obviously has positive feelings about Willie. Oh, yeah. And he plays with both of Willie's sons, Lukas and Micah. Lukas has been on many tours with Neil, with Promise of The Real, and Micah is going out with Neil this year. Micah also did the animation in the movie, by the way. So we're pretty close with that family, and I think Neil gets a lot of inspiration from Willie. Before this, you made two other documentaries with Neil, (2019) and (2022), while he was creating music. Mountaintop was the first time Crazy Horse had recorded together in a long time. Basically, I set the cameras and then disappeared. Whereas for Barn, I walked in with my iPad and my DP would try to hide with his little camera. So the two of us were allowed more in there, not very often, because the Horse spooks easily. They don't like to see anybody. You have to be pretty cautious. With the mountains of footage you collect on these projects, how do you shape these into the stories you end up telling? I had an idea from the beginning to just show the daily life part of being on the bus [on Coastal]. And that it wasn't this showbiz thing, that it's more of a real life. I wanted to show the sort of silly, innocuous conversations that he has with Jerry Don, and how those things morph into his conversations that he has with the audience. He will be talking to Jerry Don about AI or something, and then he'll continue having that same conversation on stage. Neil has this line from one of his legendary shows where someone shouted out a request for a song, and he said, 'It's all one song.' Of course, in the documentary, you always find the film in the editing process. And one of the things I was pretty adamant about when I started editing was that I wasn't going to be in the film at all. And then I ended up contradicting that because I really ended up loving the moments where he looked straight into the camera and talks to me. I found the warmth in his smile and those moments to be really lovely. In a movie like Mountaintop, it's a more intense situation where there's a lot of testosterone and aggro energy flying around. This is the antithetical to that as well. This shows a very different side of Neil that exists, that is very real too and not often seen. There's a moment in the film where we see his piano, and there's a little note saying, 'You are adorable.' I assume he didn't leave that for himself. [laughs] Sometimes I just leave a little stick 'em somewhere. I didn't know that was visible really. I notice that in and in this new one, there's a moment where Neil is either finishing or taking a pee.I don't know how that's become a running theme. It brings everything down to a very human level. In Barn, I'm looking at this gorgeous sunset. The mountains are epic and it's a pee with a view. It's a pretty funny contrast, because it pans away from the sunset, and there he is. [laughs] At the beginning of the film, he talks about how it's his first time playing in front of anybody in almost four years. The doc doesn't get deep into the background, but it's obviously because of the pandemic. What was the atmosphere when he was preparing to do this? From my own experience as an actor, every time you start a movie, you're like, 'Oh my God, do I know what I'm doing? Is it gonna work out?' For the first day or so, everything is back up in the air, even if you've been doing it for decades. For him, even though he's been playing music for decades, after a four-year break, you're just a little bit like, 'Oh, holy crap.' And then as soon as he gets on stage, the second nature of it kicks in. If you're a sensitive performer, I pretty much always get nerves. Unfortunately, it's not something that you really grow out of. How did you decide which songs to include in the film? I definitely knew that I wanted to surround the film by those two songs: 'I Am the Ocean' at the beginning, and 'When I Hold You In My Arms' at the end. I just find them to be really pertinent, relevant to these times, and also very moving. I'd heard 'I Am the Ocean' before, but on Mirror Ball when he recorded it with Pearl Jam, you almost can't hear the lyrics. So to hear the lyrics is really amazing, because to me it's just so interesting—all the stuff that is still relevant today that he's talking about even decades after he wrote it. I found the same thing for 'When I Hold You In My Arms.' The lyric is like, 'All those gangsters with their crimes/They make it look so good/We've been blowing up the planet/Just like the old neighborhood.' Then also how important it is to have somebody to care for when times are bad and tough or challenging. Whether it's a person or a community, it's important to have that feeling because it's what carries you through. You and Neil appeared at the Bernie Sanders rally in Los Angeles last week, and Sanders later that day turned up onstage at Coachella. I'm so glad he went to Coachella. It was great to see so many people out at the protests, but at the same time, I noticed that there were some young people, but not the amount of young people that you would have hoped. So I'm really glad that Bernie had such a great response at Coachella, and that he spoke to that audience, because we need the youth to be out there in the streets too. It can't just be the boomers. It's gotta be all of us. You're both obviously feeling the need to be active in this intense political moment. Oh my God. We're definitely in some kind of constitutional crisis mode. It's shocking what's happening, which is blatant, disobeying the Supreme Court orders and picking up people and taking them and putting them in foreign torture jails and with no due process and stripping people's rights. These are the times that we need to show up and make our voices heard. This is absolutely the moment. Neil recently said something about being concerned about being allowed back into the country after touring Europe this year. Is that a real threat? I don't know. At first I was like, well, maybe it's not really a real threat yet, because they're doing that to people who have green cards and to people who have temporary legal status, which of course they shouldn't be doing—but not so far to American citizens. I wouldn't say it's beyond the realm of possibility at this point, because it's getting crazier minute-by-minute right now. What do you have planned after this film is released into the world? We're about to leave for a European tour. Neil's going to do a tour of Europe with the Chrome Hearts, with Micah, Spooner Oldham, and some of the other guys from Promise of the Real. And after that we do a little bit of Canada, and then back to the States a little bit to tour later in the summer. We're just about to get ready to go on this big journey. And I'm just about to send out this screenplay that my best friend and I have spent many years writing, so that I could direct a narrative project. That's my next goal. You've worked with some pretty big directors, so you probably have some ideas to try out. Yeah. I've gotten to work with some of the best for sure. And I've definitely paid attention. To see our running list of the top 100 greatest rock stars of all time, click here.
Telegraph
16-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Telegraph
Neil Young: Coastal – A shallow, lifeless portrait of a rock maverick
A documentary directed by its subject's spouse is an immediatered flag. See last year's superficial look at Elton John's shape-shifting career in Never Too Late, co-directed by his husband, David Furnish, or Katie de Vidas's intimate yet unchallenging portrait of her partner, Pete Doherty, in Stranger in My Own Skin. Now we have Coastal, a feature-length film about musical maverick Neil Young as seen by his wife, the Kill Bill actress Daryl Hannah, which somehow takes one of the most interesting men in rock and turns him into a figure with all the substance of a cardboard cut-out ordered on the cheap. It's not the first time Hannah has turned her lens on her husband, having previously directed Mountaintop (2019) and Barn (2021), both behind-the-scenes films about Young and his current band, Crazy Horse. Barn, in particular, went some way to capturing the spirit of its subject, as we watched Young fiddle and fuss over arrangements while recording the album – his 43rd – of the same name. Coastal, by comparison, is a film of two vastly unequal halves: one-part a downbeat drive down never-ending highways, with footage centred on Young and others eating, chatting, resting their feet on the dashboard. Hannah's decision to shoot the film entirely in black and white doesn't exactly help its case, with the (presumably) stunning West Coast oceans reduced to bland backdrops. It finally moves into colour for the end credits – a nod, Hannah has said, to her favourite film, The Wizard of Oz. But Coastal lacks any of Dorothy's vivid, adventure-filled path to enlightenment. It only truly comes alive when the music takes centre stage. We see Young performing some of his first shows after Covid (he now only plays outdoors), bowed over his guitar, harmonica kissing his lips, strumming out the opening chords of I'm the Ocean. 'People my age / They don't do the things I do,' he softly sings; beautiful tracks like Comes a Time, A Dream That Can Last and Throw Your Hatred Down follow, Young's voice on surprisingly resplendent form. He has never been lauded for his vocal abilities – but at 79, and when compared to Bob Dylan (just four years his senior), he might as well be Aretha Franklin. But however wonderful the music is, it can only do so little to rescue Coastal from tedium. Perhaps some talking heads or sit-down interview footage with Young, one on one, in which he could have ranted about his favourite topics – Trump, Spotify, Lynyrd Skynyrd's Sweet Home Alabama – would have made it more interesting. Fans watching ahead of Young's duo of big British shows this summer – at Glastonbury and BST Hyde Park – may reach the end of the 102 minute run-time with a slight feeling of trepidation: can he be counted on to play the crowd-pleasers (Heart of Gold, Harvest Moon)? His declaration here that 'People think they want to hear the hits, because that's all they've ever heard' doesn't exactly fill one with confidence. But hey, hey, who would Neil Young be if he wasn't unpredictable?
