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Times
18-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Times
The Phoenician Scheme review — Mia Threapleton shines in dour Wes Anderson
The best Wes Anderson movies work on two levels at once, the head and the heart. The Royal Tenenbaums, for instance, bursts with cerebral allusions to Salinger, Welles and the films of Powell and Pressburger while also exploring the lingering wounds of family life and of love unexpressed. Even the Wes Anderson films that don't work on the heart level have such head-spinning cleverness that their impact can be dizzying — think of Asteroid City, with its audacious 'play within a play within a TV show within a movie' structure. If, however, a Wes Anderson movie doesn't work on either the head or the heart level, you're in big trouble. And that takes us to The Phoenician Scheme, premiered at the Cannes
New York Post
23-04-2025
- Business
- New York Post
Here's what Russia and Ukraine get in Trump's ‘final offer' peace deal
WASHINGTON — With US officials in London Wednesday for what could be a last round of negotiations to try and end Russia's invasion of Ukraine, the pressure is on for Moscow and Kyiv to agree to the Trump administration's 'final offer' peace plan. While Kyiv has been consistently open to President Trump's call for a full cease-fire, Russia has continually rejected the American peace proposals. The latest pitch, as described by one senior administration official, offers Russia several 'carrots' to entice them to come to the table while asking Ukraine to make several major concessions. Here's a look at what each side has been offered, according to administration officials: What Russia gets Formal US recognition of Ukraine's Crimea peninsula as Russian territory — a major departure from the Washington's longstanding Welles doctrine, which refuses to acknowledge annexed territory as belonging to the seizing power. 'De facto' recognition of Russia's occupation of four regions in Eastern Ukraine, meaning the US would acknowledge Moscow controls the Luhansk, Donetsk, Kherson and Zaporizhzhia oblasts while formally considering them Ukrainian land. A pledge that the US would not support Ukraine becoming a member of NATO. Lifted sanctions to boost Russia's economy, which has struggled throughout its war on Ukraine. Opportunities for more economic cooperation with the US, especially in the energy and industrial fields. What Ukraine gets Assistance from European military forces as 'a robust security guarantee' following a cease-fire. The US would not be involved in this measure. Russia would return a small portion of Ukraine's Kharkiv oblast currently occupied by Moscow. Navigation rights in the Dnieper River, which runs along the frontlines. Assistance in post-war rebuilding, though it is unclear from where that funding would come.
New York Times
12-02-2025
- Entertainment
- New York Times
Jesse Welles, a Folk Musician Who Sings the News, Is Turning the Page
In a small home recording studio on a Monday afternoon in January, Jesse Welles sat with a guitar on his lap, dressed head-to-toe in black. Welles, a singer-songwriter with a shaggy, dirty-blond mane and a sandpapery voice, has risen to recent prominence posting videos to social media of himself alone in the woods near his home in northwest Arkansas, performing wryly funny, politically engaged folk songs. He's managed to turn subjects like the war in Gaza, the rise of the weight-loss drug Ozempic and the rapaciousness of United Healthcare's business model into viral hits on TikTok and Instagram, building an audience of more than 2 million followers on those platforms. But the song he was recording in that basement in East Nashville, 'Simple Gifts,' is a different beast. As he delicately plucked his acoustic guitar, he sang its earnest opening lines — 'Slouching towards the sky's extent from the edges of a waste / Was something darker than a hope, something brighter still than fate' — sketching out an imagistic tableau untouched by current events. Welles's new album, 'Middle,' due Feb. 21, is similarly minded. 'The only filter placed on it was I wasn't doing topical songs for this project,' he said. 'These are ones that are self-indulgent, or at least I feel like they are at times. I like to do both. They're two different mediums.' Image Jesse Welles's protest songs deftly blend the whimsical with the serious, turning topics like Walmart and the war in Gaza into viral hits on TikTok and Instagram. Credit... Eric Ryan Anderson for The New York Times The producer, Eddie Spear, rose from behind a mixing board and adjusted the microphone in front of Welles. Most of the songs on 'Middle' are recorded with a full band, but for 'Simple Gifts' and the album's title track, the setup was pared down to a solitary microphone. 'I'm trying to honor what people are enjoying about Jesse,' said Spear, who has also worked with Zach Bryan and Sierra Ferrell. 'We thought getting a really simple capture in this way might tie in where he's come from and honor this particular period of his career.' Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and log into your Times account, or subscribe for all of The Times. Thank you for your patience while we verify access. Already a subscriber? Log in. Want all of The Times? Subscribe.
