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Yahoo
27-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
'Little House on the Prairie' reboot adds Jocko Sims as the Ingalls' real-life doctor
The cast of Netflix's Little House on the Prairie reboot continues to grow, and Jocko Sims just joined as a character whom fans of Laura Ingalls Wilder's book series will remember. The New Amsterdam star will play Dr. George Tann, described by Netflix as "a generous and kind-hearted man with a charming bedside manner that makes him a connector within the community." Sims' character is based on the real-life Dr. Tann, who Wilder wrote about in her 1935 autobiographical novel Little House on the Prairie. According to the official LHOP website, Dr. Tann treated the Ingalls family when they all were stricken with malaria in Kansas. In addition to Sims, Netflix announced five more cast members: Warren Christie as John Edwards, a Civil War veteran from Tennessee; Meegwun Fairbrother as Mitchell, a farmer with "the most impressive homestead in the county"; Alyssa Wapanatǎhk as White Sun, Mitchell's wife; Wren Zhawenim Gotts as Good Eagle, daughter of Mitchell and White Sun; and Xander Cole as Little Puma, White Sun's younger brother, who "loves his big sister but also loves getting under her skin." Described by the streamer as "part hopeful family drama, part epic survival tale, and part origin story of the American West," Little House on the Prairie will follow the Ingalls family and the Osage tribe members they encounter while living in Kansas. Earlier this month, Netflix revealed that Alice Halsey (Lessons in Chemistry) will play Laura Ingalls in the reboot, alongside Luke Bracey (Little Fires Everywhere) as Charles, Crosby Fitzgerald (Palm Royale) as Caroline, and Skywalker Hughes (I, Object) as Mary. While former Fox News host Megyn Kelly — who vowed to "destroy" the reboot if it was too "woke" — may not be pleased by the diverse cast, TV's original Half-Pint, Melissa Gilbert, is all for the new interpretation of Wilders' work. Speaking with Entertainment Weekly in February about Netflix's reboot, Gilbert suggested that the series would be able "to do things that we didn't get to do necessarily so easily in the '70s," especially when it comes to casting. "They can make an actual point of hiring Native American actors to play the Native Americans, which we didn't do. We were certainly inclusive and open to it, but it wasn't a prerequisite," Gilbert said. "And now they can look at it with a new lens and say, 'This part should be played by Native American actors.' Bring in Dr. Tann, the actual Black doctor who treated the Ingalls family. Bring all of these people in and tell the story." Rebecca Sonnenshine (The Boys, Vampire Diaries) will serve as showrunner for Little House on the Prairie, which does not yet have a release date. Read the original article on Entertainment Weekly
Yahoo
07-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Meet MisMister, the Brand Melding Victorian Silhouettes With Street-Wise Attitude
© Skyli Alvarez, 2025 In her bedroom, studded belts, scraps of black lace, and a pair of headphones drape loosely over the bed frame, shifting softly in the breeze of an early April morning in Brooklyn. To the left of the bed, a minidress cut from plush sweatshirt fleece adorns a dress form, an antique marching band hat perched atop its neck. The hat, designer Paige Tann tells me, came from an old vintage collector in New Jersey who gave it to her for free, surprised she had any interest in it at all. The original owner's name remains etched into the lining — marks of a long-ago stranger. Bedroom and design studio, personal space and creative site, Tann really sees no distinction at all between the two. Though a lack of separation may trouble some, to Tann, it's the reason she and her brand MisMister have persisted. Growing up in Montclair, New Jersey, the 22-year-old spent school days journeying to Manhattan as a teen, and by the time she received her associate's degree from the Fashion Institute of Technology in 2024, she already had nearly a decade's worth of industry experience under her (probably vintage, probably studded) belt. As of late, much of Tann's time has been dedicated to petticoats, capri pants, and the aforementioned mini 'sweatdress' — all for her spring collection, released on May 2. Working, living, and moving in the same space have allowed her to cultivate the world of MisMister, a world in which sailors, Gilded Age girls, and runaway princesses are one and the same. Below, Teen Vogue sat down with Tann to discuss her artful childhood, love for sewing, and melding fashions old and new. Teen Vogue: How did you get your start in fashion and design? Paige Tann: From a young age, I was interested in fine arts. My father was an artist who tried out every medium — I still have some of his cutters, markers, and patterns. I definitely was the classic 'can't speak, but will dress crazy' kid, and sewing [became] a way to articulate how I was feeling without any words. My parents sent me to one sewing class in sixth grade and I absolutely fell in love. In seventh grade, I was blessed to get a sewing machine and the rest was history. © Skyli Alvarez, 2025 In middle school, I started skipping class to take the train to the city and soak up whatever I could, whether it was wandering into galleries, luxury stores, thrifting, seeing if I could get any opportunity. And funny enough, a lot of things did fall into my lap. I'd meet people on the street who would tell me, 'Oh, I actually do the costumes for this Broadway show. Do you want to come see my studio?' I had so many people give me their card, their info, tell me this, that. In ninth grade, I got the opportunity to intern at a bridal showroom and kind of fudged it a little bit and lied about my age. I just knew that this is what I was going to dedicate my life to. TV: Your parents took fashion seriously, and in turn, you did as well. Tell me more about being raised with this mindset. PT: Their openness and support helped me recognize that this career didn't have to be some fantastical dream, this is reality. And my proximity to the Garment District really, really helped. There's a photo of me in Mood in middle school, where I'm next to a roll of fabric that's taller than me. I was really serious [about it], asking 'okay, how many yards of fabric am I getting?' TV: Speaking of behind the scenes, let's now talk MisMister. What were the first pieces you released? PT: MisMister came about when I was talking to my friend [about] wanting to release a fall capsule. [The name] came pretty naturally, as I like to incorporate details that oppose each other in a lot of my designs — like a men's military uniform mixed with a woman's bustier. It seemed appropriate. Our Denim Sailor Set was the very first thing we released. And then once we established ourselves as MisMister, we released the Happily Never After Capsule I in October for fall, and now we're working on part two for spring, Happily Never After Capsule II…As of now, MisMister consists of myself, my design intern Oliver Grenz, and our seamstresses at the Brooklyn sample room. © Skyli Alvarez, 2025 TV: How does your spring capsule build off the fall collection? PT: It's definitely one cohesive collection, however, the fall capsule used heavier fabrics and denim, it was a bit more structured. In a fashion film we created [for the spring capsule] with director Haley Spranger, we describe it as a spring awakening. A girl walks into this fantastical greenhouse bedroom [wearing] the old collection, fully buttoned up in our jacket, and underneath she wears items from spring. The girls already in the room kind of corrupt her and give her a makeover. In the beginning she's very shy, but by the end of the video, she walks back into the world in her new look. I want to create a new little world and give people a little bit of a reprieve from everything that's going on in ours right now. For me, fashion has always been a safe space to experiment, and that's why I get so happy when I see people in my clothes, because at the end of the day, it's about helping people feel more at home in their own skin. TV: It's like these new pieces allude to the past, and you can mix and match them all. Tell me more about the MisMister girl and the universe you've built for her. PT: My favorite thing is to put a rugged textile with a soft silhouette, pair lace with studs or make a high-neck, button-up completely sheer. The Happily Never After Capsule II is based on a runaway princess who abandons the prim and proper life in the tower. Her petticoats become shorter, her blouse sheer and revealing. The hem line of her little evening gown is now up to her thigh. It's a transformation. The tagline for the brand is 'whimsical, yet wearable,' and 'womenswear with a boyish charm.' I think the pieces I've created so far illustrate the combining of these two elements. MisMister is about existing in two worlds at the same time, harmonizing masculine and feminine elements into a piece. © Skyli Alvarez, 2025 © Skyli Alvarez, 2025 © Skyli Alvarez, 2025 TV: That fantastical element, of dipping into fantasy, brings a whole mix of different eras, styles, references to your work. PT: I love a little bit of everything for sure. Vintage-inspired, typically, with more modern fabrics or flare, something that makes it more sturdy. I love a little frilly skirt made out of raw denim. My [spring capsule] petticoat is actually made out of thermal fabric and the netting underneath is super stiff and durable. TV: Which pieces from this new collection excite you the most? PT: The bolero. I think it's something I'm going to wear every day. We're also making a unisex long sleeve [and] are hoping to shoot it on a guy and a girl. With my original Denim Sailor Set, we shot it on both and had so much fun styling both looks. I want to move in a more genderless direction. TV: Walk me through your design process. PT: We pattern sample and design everything in-house, a.k.a., my apartment, and then we bring it to the sample room. When I make the sketch, I create a technical flat and then I either drape it on that form or I pattern make it, we make a couple muslins, then once I feel comfortable, we make it in fashion fabric. I bring that sew-by-sample to the factory for an appraisal along with the pattern, and then I say a prayer that I'll be able to afford to produce it. TV: What are you listening to when you work? PT: A musical soundtrack, a little Phantom of the Opera. It just makes things interesting and dramatic. Obviously, I've never met anyone who's a designer who isn't dramatic. Theater translates into the work that I do. It's very emotional. It's very over-the-top, and with sewing, the stress is life or death. © Skyli Alvarez, 2025 TV: What have customers told you about their experience with your pieces? PT: A lot of my customers have sent me photos of them wearing them out, and it makes me want to cry. I had one boyfriend reach out to me. He was like, 'my girlfriend loves your brand. I really want to get her a piece. Will it come in time for her birthday?' And I was like, 'of course it will.' It arrived for her birthday dinner. On the scale I'm at right now, I won't be able to have that connection forever. But I do want to keep it very intimate because that's what keeps me going. When it's 3 a.m. and I'm still sewing and want to be done, I think of personal moments like that and [feel] so lucky. © Skyli Alvarez, 2025 © Skyli Alvarez, 2025 TV: Beyond nurturing customer relationships, how do you stay small-scale with production? PT: It's very important to me to stay made in New York, in an environment I can actually go in person to see. I want to keep producing in small batches so I know the sewer who's actually making this. The sample room I'm using now is smaller than the one I [first] used in the Garment District, but it's an open, clean space. I was talking to a factory in Portugal, but I'm not ready to produce in the hundreds yet. And I'm not sure if I ever will be, but that's to be continued. I want to scale the brand, be able to fulfill all my orders, and be stocked in multiple locations. However, at the end of the day, when I think about my pieces, half of the magic is how specialized they are. A lot of details cannot really be produced on such a big scale. With the factory I work with now, the owner Colby makes exceptions and he's like, 'for 15 pieces we can make it work.' My last capsule, I could not keep up with the demand, especially for the Denim Sailor Skirt. I just had to start saying no, and I marked everything as sold out in January. I just couldn't do it anymore. I was sewing orders myself after I sold out of the stock that we had, and eventually I realized it was not sustainable. I can't just be sewing morning 'til night every single day, then I wouldn't be able to design. TV: What have situations like that taught you about your work as a designer? PT: Now I think, 'how do I keep all of the integrity of the design, but make the details replicatable?' When I'm designing for a capsule, I'm designing for a capsule. When I'm sketching something whimsical, I incorporate those details into the capsules. © Skyli Alvarez, 2025 TV: Tell me about living and working in the same place. PT: The in-home studio is a blessing and a curse, because it dissolves that separation of life and work. If I'm about to go to sleep and an idea comes to my head, I can get my sketch pads, look at the fabric, go to sleep. If I was working on something the night before, I could just wake up and not have to look presentable. Sometimes I'll go [back] into bed, then I wake up, make breakfast, have a coffee. A lot of times I will have a faux-morning where I'm not doing anything but finishing that thought I had. My social life and my work life are so intertwined that it couldn't be any other way. Honestly, I can't remember the last day I didn't work on MisMister in some capacity. Even if I'm not having the whole day in the studio, I'm doing something for the brand. My life is the brand. © Skyli Alvarez, 2025 TV: How has your brand transformed your own sense of style? PT: It's just given me more options for what I can wear, because growing up, I always loved pairing the tutu with the denim jacket, [and now] I love having an eyebrow piercing and flowy blonde hair. Now I just have a bigger wardrobe. TV: One last question. Describe MisMister in one word, one song, and one scent. PT: Whimsical, 'Angel's Song' by Melanie Martinez, and your parent's attic. This interview has been condensed and edited for clarity. Originally Appeared on Teen Vogue Want more like this from Teen Vogue? Check these stories out:
The Guardian
02-05-2025
- Politics
- The Guardian
‘Irreplaceable habitat': planning bill raises fears for England's chalk streams
Walk along the gin-clear River Itchen in Hampshire and you might see otters, salmon, kingfishers and clouds of mayflies, all supported by the unique ecosystem of the chalk stream. The UK has no tropical rainforests or tigers; its wildlife is arguably more modest in appearance. But its chalk streams are some of the rarest habitats in the world – there are only 200, and England boasts 85% of them. If you look properly, they are as biodiverse and beautiful as any rainforest. Despite the rarity and importance of these very pure rivers, which are full of minerals from the chalk aquifer, they have no specific legal protections. Environmentalists fear the Labour party's planning bill will use the country's departure from the EU to make it legal for developers to destroy them, as long as they offset the damage by paying into a fund to create nature somewhere else. 'Chalk streams are an irreplaceable habitat. They are incredibly fragile and incredibly rare, but we suck up our drinking water from them and dump our sewage in them,' Debbie Tann, the chief executive of the Hampshire and Isle of Wight Wildlife Trust, said. Chalk streams currently have some protections under the EU-derived habitats directive, which safeguards some of the rare creatures the streams support. But Labour's new planning and infrastructure bill overrides these protections, allowing developers to pay into a nature restoration fund instead of avoiding destruction and pollution in building. While this tradeoff will be beneficial in some cases, nature campaigners argue that you cannot offset damage done to a rare habitat as irreplaceable as a chalk stream. Tann said: 'I think the levy is almost designed to create a replacement or an alternative habitat somewhere else for the thing that you're impacting. That isn't going to work in a chalk stream context. You can't just create a new one somewhere else.' The Itchen looks flawless, its sparkling waters full of healthy vegetation, fish and invertebrates. Some ecologists are sampling the life in the river's substrate; one little scoop of dirt and pebbles is teeming with life, from mayfly and caddisfly larvae to shrimps, sticklebacks and a long, wiggly leech. But the river is having to fight back against many pressures, from sewage that bubbles up from a nearby maintenance hole to abstraction for drinking water, as well as a new discharge pipe which will pump runoff directly from the motorway into its pristine waters. The river's protectors say there is not much more it can take. Ideally, these rivers would be surrounded by meadows which could soak up some of the pollution brought by heavy rainfall. Tann said: 'This is one of the best chalk streams in the country. It looks beautiful and is in pretty good condition, but it is suffering from climate change impacts. We do have pollution issues here. The surrounding land is not acting like a good buffer because it is full of housing and industrial estates. So any runoff with these extreme rainfall events will bring pollution straight into the river, so we're just compounding more and more pressure on these really precious habitats.' Labour picked up votes in last year's general election by focusing on the sewage scandal, in which water companies have been allowed to dump human waste into the UK's rivers and seas. Keir Starmer promised to clean up the country's rivers. People would not forget if broken promises meant their local river getting polluted further, Martin De Retuerto, the Hampshire and Isle of Wight Wildlife Trust's head of nature recovery, said. 'The level of engagement and activity on these rivers by local people is really high now, and I think that there could be a bit of a tipping point amongst people in how they view those in charge, if river protection is not taken seriously.' Labour would not be able to change the law on habitat protection had Brexit not happened, as it would mean flouting the EU habitats directive. 'This is a Brexit disbenefit of the highest order,' Tann said. 'We've had successive governments promise to strengthen protections after Brexit, but this is the opposite.' Some of our chalk streams are dying or already dead. The River Ver near St Albans, Hertfordshire, dries up every summer as it is so overabstracted, and poor management means the gravel on which fish should spawn is often covered in a thick layer of silt. Sign up to Down to Earth The planet's most important stories. Get all the week's environment news - the good, the bad and the essential after newsletter promotion The Itchen has enjoyed some protections as it is a major fishing river, so has had the protection of anglers, and it also has the Wildlife Trusts looking after it. In turn, the river has taken care of the local city, Winchester. De Retuerto said: 'In 2014 we had some very severe floods, a one-in-200-year event. Arguably, the city did not flood anywhere near as badly as it would because of the floodplain restoration we've done here. 'Climate breakdown means we're going to experience far more extreme flooding events as well as drought events, and we're a bottleneck for the city. So this site will continue to do its part, but there's a point where it can't recover sustained frequency of more extreme events as well as soaking up all the other pressures it faces.' The Wildlife Trusts have supported an amendment to the planning bill, tabled by the Labour MP Chris Hinchliff, that would enshrine protections for chalk streams as irreplaceable habitats. Planners would have to ensure they were not harming the rare habitats with abstraction, pollution or runoff when designing their developments. Tann said: 'We would like to see chalk streams properly classified as an irreplaceable habitat and have proper protection within planning. We're not anti-development. We never have been, but it's about the right development in the right place, and there has to come a point where there's just too much surrounding these precious sites.' But Starmer has described people such as Tann and De Retuerto as 'blockers' because of their nature campaigning. The government has also described nature protections as 'red tape' that needs to be cut. Tann said: 'Why call that red tape? You wouldn't call protecting St Paul's Cathedral red tape. 'These streams are part of our identity as a country. And it's not true that getting rid of nature protections is somehow this magic bullet that's going to enable economic growth. It's the wrong answer to the problem, and it's not going to help. And in the meantime, we will lose these last bits of incredibly important natural environment that we have.'
BBC News
14-03-2025
- General
- BBC News
Tipner West: Government backs wildlife charities to protect land
A wildlife charity has welcomed a government decision to scrap a large-scale development & Isle of Wight Wildlife Trust has repeatedly raised concerns over Portsmouth City Council's plans for Tipner authority intended to build up to 800 homes in the north-west part of Portsea Island, as well as a marine employment hub and work to improve sea deputy prime minister Angela Rayner has ruled the public benefits of the development do not outweigh the ecological damage it would cause. Tipner West is a Special Protection Area (SPA) for birds and a Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI), which the wildlife trust has fought to protect alongside the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB).The organisation has previously launched a petition against the plans, which gained more than 25,000 in her role as secretary of state for housing, communities and local government, Ms Rayner supported the nature Tann, chief executive of Hampshire & Isle of Wight Wildlife Trust, said she was "pleased" with the government's decision. She explained it "closed the door on proposals that would have seen development trashing both important harbour habitats and legal safeguards". 'Significant step forward' According to the Local Democracy Reporting Service, it has now been suggested a nature reserve could be included to the south of Tipner West, alongside a reduced-scale employment hub and housing Tann added: "The suggested inclusion of a nature reserve at the south of the site is a significant step forward and will be essential in safeguarding the habitats that provide vital feeding and roosting grounds for threatened wading bird species."Portsmouth Harbour and the wider Solent area are home to 30 per cent of the UK's over-wintering population of dark-bellied brent geese, as well as dunlin, black-tailed godwits, and many other wintering Cantelo, from the RSPB, said: "This is a win for nature, people and the local community. "We thank the many thousands of people who stood together with RSPB and Hampshire & Isle of Wight Wildlife Trust to help safeguard this precious area and deliver a greener future for local people and future generations."Council leader, Steve Pitt said the decision allows his administration to move ahead with the project "with a different balance of nature, employment and housing" alongside adequate flood defences. You can follow BBC Hampshire & Isle of Wight on Facebook, X, or Instagram.
Yahoo
12-03-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
More than $1 billion for feeding poor cut by Trump administration
PORTSMOUTH, Va. (WAVY) — In Portsmouth, visits by the Foodbank of Southeastern Virginia and the Eastern Shore a go a long way. A Biden-era executive order covered the cost of healthy proteins and fresh produce for satellite food bank distribution sites at Third Baptist Church and the Wesley Community Center. This week, that program was rattled by the DOGE chainsaw. 'So this would be $300,000 in funding for us,' said Chris Tann, president and CEO of the Foodbank of Southeastern Virginia and the Eastern Shore. 'Every year, it would be over 6,000 meals a month in produce and 3,000 meals a month in protein.' Portsmouth church offers help as the federal government pulls some assistance for food Across the country, the Department of Government Efficiency, led by Elon Musk, has slashed more than a billion dollars in federal spending that allows foodbanks and schools to buy nutritious proteins and produce from local farms. 'So if you're talking about 6,000, 9,000 meals a month, basically between produce and protein, which is the product that we want the most of, it's also a very important product to us,' Tann said. 'This isn't just dry goods, which is always important as well, but producing protein is something that we know make people healthier. So you're talking about at least 9,000 people a month that won't have a meal.' Census poverty numbers tell the story of a region that has a disproportionate level of people who live in poverty. Portsmouth 18 % Norfolk 17 % Newport News 15 % Franklin 19% National average 12.5 % From numbers to faces, 10 On Your Side shows you, up close, how food insecurity affects families. In some schools, the meals served for breakfast and lunch are the children's only meals for the day. At Third Baptist Church, at a drive through distribution event, those who have cars are allowed to pick up enough food for their neighbors who don't have transportation. 10 On Your Side also learned of a grandmother who is caring for three teen boys whose parents are unable to care for their offspring. This mother relies on the Foodbank to feed her grandchildren. 'Over the last two and a half years, we've increased our produce distribution by about 50% and our protein distribution by about 50%,' Tann said. 'So that means that, over the last two years, we've increased produce and protein distribution each by 50% because those are the things that our neighbors need to stay healthy, just be engaged in our community, to be educated in our community.' Because of the high poverty rate in the region, the Foodbank secured Congressional funding of more than $1 million to build a new location in Virginia. Beach. Tann says DOGE may also cut that funding from the federal budget. The Foodbank is calling on the community to help the organization help the people of Hampton Roads. 'So this is a facility in Virginia Beach that we were going to be using, utilizing Congressional funding to do the design and the building of the project in addition to raising a significant amount of money from our community,' Tann said. 'And so it's definitely a quick change for us that we won't have that money coming in and it will be a tough to make it up for sure.' Tann said the community has ways it can help the Foodbank. He said it's hard to plan ahead when they don't know what's coming next. He said they've talked about the cuts that are coming through the local food purchase agreement, noting it's for local farmers and the foodbanks to work together. 'That's one cut,' he said. 'But we're also worried about other cuts that might happen. The beauty of this is that through those cuts and through hard times, the public steps up. So we're going to need the public's help again. We're going to have to make these meals up somewhere else. And hopefully that will be with the generosity of those who give to us.' Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
