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Washington Post
6 days ago
- Entertainment
- Washington Post
Foster mom fosters nightmares in ‘Bring Her Back'
What's the opposite of a Venn diagram overlap? Whatever it is, 'Bring Her Back' is the film equivalent, with two potential audiences that might cancel each other out. Fans of horror movies that work your every last nerve may not appreciate the casting of the great British actress Sally Hawkins as a foster parent with a devilish agenda. By contrast, fans of Hawkins's work in art-house crowd-pleasers like 'Maudie' and 'Happy-Go-Lucky' — or even mainstream fare like 'The Shape of Water' and the first two 'Paddington' movies — may run screaming from the theater.
Yahoo
25-03-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Non-profit aids Memphis artists, promotes sustainable music careers
MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Every Tuesday as part of our Greater Memphis on a Mission series, we highlight organizations making Memphis better. This week, we caught up with a group that believes music is necessary and supporting local artists is vital. Talibah Safiya is a singer, songwriter, and recording artist who has over the years utilized Music Export Memphis, a non-profit organization that creates opportunities for Memphis musicians to showcase outside the city and help them build sustainable music careers right here in Memphis. Elizabeth Cawein is the founder and executive director. 'I saw that there was a way where we could sort of hit the center of this Venn Diagram and create true mutual benefit for our city and for our artists with really meaningful opportunities to get them on national and international stages,' said Elizabeth Cawein, founder and executive director. Memphis woman makes history scuba diving on all 7 continents They don't want financial barriers to stand in the way of possible opportunities, that's why they have multiple grant programs. In 2016, they started providing tour grants to artists. 'If you are an artist who lives here, you book five or more dates outside the city. you can get money from us to support that tour,' Cawein said. They don't pay for your tour but the unrestricted cash grant can be used however an artist needs. Such as gas money, fixing a flat tire, or even if a gig gets canceled it can help soften the financial hit. Their merch grants help support the creation of merchandise like hats, t-shirts, and vinyls. Through their export bank program, they can even customize a grant for artists like Talibah who was invited to a writers' camp in Los Angeles. 📡 for Memphis and the Mid-South. 📧 and have the latest top stories sent right to your inbox. 'I told her what the opportunity was. We listed out what we would need and we were able to get the support needed for me to go to LA,' she said. 'Which led to me being able to do more writers' camp, more television, and have sustainable income in a whole new way that I didn't even have before.' In a city like memphis, where music is our culture, it is our history. The musicians that are here are carrying that forward, and so any small part that we can play in keeping them here is absolutely essential to, I think, the fabric of Memphis,' said Cawein. That is why Brown Missionary Baptist Church and the Mid-South Genesis CDC donated $1,000 to Music Export Memphis. Because when you help build our city's local, national, and international music reputation, it will always be the best investment. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
Yahoo
05-02-2025
- Politics
- Yahoo
Starmer's plan to please all voters will leave him without the support of anyone
Relax: Labour have got this. There will be no 'far Right' surge of support on Keir Starmer's watch. We know this because of two recent initiatives. The first is the creation of an informal caucus of MPs representing the 89 Labour-held constituencies where Reform came second at last year's general election. The group will lobby ministers to adopt more robust anti-immigration policies and rhetoric, and will advocate, for example, that ministers 'shout louder' about their success in removing unsuccessful asylum applicants, all in a bid to impress voters who might be considering voting for Nigel Farage's party. The second plank in Labour's strategy to thwart Reform is a cunning one indeed: the party's new general secretary, Hollie Ridley, has told a meeting of the National Executive Committee that Labour intends to produce literature in future electoral contests aimed squarely at both Reform and the Greens, the latter of which Labour strategists are also unnerved by. It is hardly necessary to remark how ingenious this latter strategy is. There is surely no downside to delivering bespoke, even contradictory messages to voters in different parts of the same country – perhaps even the same ward – reassuring them that Labour will focus on those voters' priorities. Worried that the Government isn't doing enough to reach net zero? Fear not – here's a message from Ed Miliband assuring you that any new licences to drill in the North Sea will happen over his dead body. Angry about a local hotel being taken over by asylum seekers who arrived on a dinghy on the south coast last year? Relax! Read this statement from Yvette Cooper pointing out that her Government has deported more illegal immigrants than its predecessor ever did. Job done! What could possibly go wrong? Well, since you ask… This sort of targeting of specific groups of voters has been going on for as long as there have been elections. Emphasise the bits of your manifesto that X voter will support, but don't even mention this other bit that they will be less keen on. It sounds cynical but it's an inevitable part of politics and all parties indulge in it. The problem with the twin threats to Labour support from the Greens and Reform are that they are at opposite ends of the political spectrum, and their values and priorities are antithetical with nary a Venn Diagram overlap. Those voters who want to see the local hotel expunged of suspicious-looking new arrivals on our shores are the same voters who aren't just sceptical about net zero, they're positively hostile towards it and all those who support it. Those nice, middle-class voters who happily voted Labour while Jeremy Corbyn was leading it but who find Keir Starmer's impression of a middle-management council official delivering a PowerPoint presentation on refuse collection protocols less engaging are turning to a party that would happily end all economic growth and doom Britain to economic penury in order to achieve zero carbon emissions, while advocating open borders to anyone in the world who would still want to live here and subject themselves to the Greens' new brand of virtuous austerity. That Labour is confident of appealing to both sets of voters is ambitious and impressive, if a little hard to believe. It's just as well there is no such thing as social media or the internet, otherwise this clever strategy might be exposed before the polls even open. While Margaret Thatcher reaped the political rewards of adopting the Martin Luther strategy – 'Here I stand, I can do no other' – forcing voters to respect her immoveable ideological positions, Tony Blair was the first UK politician to wield the political weapon of triangulation, seeking common ground between two opposing viewpoints or shifting the debate to a further point where the two sides could recognise a common interest. Neither strategy will work today. Those 89 Labour MPs at least recognise that their own voters are likely to be wooed by Farage's 'common sense' solutions in exactly the same way that Donald Trump won over vast swathes of middle America with clever rhetoric and scant policy details. And if they focus too heavily on the issue of immigration and ignore other cultural tinder boxes – female NHS nurses being forced against their will to share changing rooms with biological men, for example – they will reap few electoral rewards for their efforts. And unless Keir Starmer is about to unveil some previously hidden political genius for politics, he is not going to be able to appeal simultaneously to both the Right and the extreme Left. He can't defend Britain's borders and win the approval of immigration liberals. He can't stick rigidly by his party's commitments to net zero and convince car owners and domestic energy bill payers that there is no price to be paid for that ambition. The Government cannot hope to generate the economic growth it needs to dig Britain out of its current economic hole without breaking a few eggs over the heads of naysayers who oppose every new housing development, road and airport runway. Who could have guessed that politics would involve taking a stand in favour of one set of principles and opposing another? Certainly not Labour, by the sound of it. It seems determined to go into battle facing both ways, to the Left and the Right, reassuring everyone that whatever their priorities, Labour will meet them, even when those priorities are irreconcilable. Good luck with that. Broaden your horizons with award-winning British journalism. Try The Telegraph free for 1 month with unlimited access to our award-winning website, exclusive app, money-saving offers and more.
Telegraph
05-02-2025
- Politics
- Telegraph
Starmer's plan to please all voters will leave him without the support of anyone
Relax: Labour have got this. There will be no 'far Right' surge of support on Keir Starmer's watch. We know this because of two recent initiatives. The first is the creation of an informal caucus of MPs representing the 89 Labour-held constituencies where Reform came second at last year's general election. The group will lobby ministers to adopt more robust anti-immigration policies and rhetoric, and will advocate, for example, that ministers 'shout louder' about their success in removing unsuccessful asylum applicants, all in a bid to impress voters who might be considering voting for Nigel Farage's party. The second plank in Labour's strategy to thwart Reform is a cunning one indeed: the party's new general secretary, Hollie Ridley, has told a meeting of the National Executive Committee that Labour intends to produce literature in future electoral contests aimed squarely at both Reform and the Greens, the latter of which Labour strategists are also unnerved by. It is hardly necessary to remark how ingenious this latter strategy is. There is surely no downside to delivering bespoke, even contradictory messages to voters in different parts of the same country – perhaps even the same ward – reassuring them that Labour will focus on those voters' priorities. Worried that the Government isn't doing enough to reach net zero? Fear not – Job done! What could possibly go wrong? Well, since you ask… This sort of targeting of specific groups of voters has been going on for as long as there have been elections. Emphasise the bits of your manifesto that X voter will support, but don't even mention this other bit that they will be less keen on. It sounds cynical but it's an inevitable part of politics and all parties indulge in it. The problem with the twin threats to Labour support from the Greens and Reform are that they are at opposite ends of the political spectrum, and their values and priorities are antithetical with nary a Venn Diagram overlap. Those voters who want to see the local hotel expunged of suspicious-looking new arrivals on our shores are the same voters who aren't just sceptical about net zero, they're positively hostile towards it and all those who support it. Those nice, middle-class voters who happily voted Labour while Jeremy Corbyn was leading it but who find Keir Starmer's impression of a middle-management council official delivering a PowerPoint presentation on refuse collection protocols less engaging are turning to a party that would happily end all economic growth and doom Britain to economic penury in order to achieve zero carbon emissions, while advocating open borders to anyone in the world who would still want to live here and subject themselves to the Greens' new brand of virtuous austerity. That Labour is confident of appealing to both sets of voters is ambitious and impressive, if a little hard to believe. It's just as well there is no such thing as social media or the internet, otherwise this clever strategy might be exposed before the polls even open. While Margaret Thatcher reaped the political rewards of adopting the Martin Luther strategy – 'Here I stand, I can do no other' – forcing voters to respect her immoveable ideological positions, Tony Blair was the first UK politician to wield the political weapon of triangulation, seeking common ground between two opposing viewpoints or shifting the debate to a further point where the two sides could recognise a common interest. Neither strategy will work today. Those And unless Keir Starmer is about to unveil some previously hidden political genius for politics, he is not going to be able to appeal simultaneously to both the Right and the extreme Left. He can't defend Britain's borders and win the approval of immigration liberals. He can't stick rigidly by his party's commitments to net zero and convince car owners and domestic energy bill payers that there is no price to be paid for that ambition. The Government cannot hope to generate the economic growth it needs to dig Britain out of its current economic hole without breaking a few eggs over the heads of naysayers who oppose every new housing development, road and airport runway. Who could have guessed that politics would involve taking a stand in favour of one set of principles and opposing another? Certainly not Labour, by the sound of it. It seems determined to go into battle facing both ways, to the Left and the Right, reassuring everyone that whatever their priorities, Labour will meet them, even when those priorities are irreconcilable. Good luck with that.
