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Alice Wong, Writer and Relentless Advocate for Disability Rights, Dies at 51

15 novembre 2025 à 20:52
Born with muscular dystrophy, she received a MacArthur “Genius” grant in 2024 for her decades of calling attention to the need for equal rights for disabled people.

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Alice Wong in 2024. “One of the things that really gives me joy is the fact that there are so many amazing, brilliant, creative disabled people out there,” Ms. Wong said. “Part of my rage — and it’s a very real rage — is that most people don’t really know about them.”

One Shot With Ed Sheeran review – well-planned spontaneity from all-smiling singer

16 novembre 2025 à 01:01

Philip Barantini’s single-take special follows the star mooching around Manhattan, guitar ever ready for ad hoc turns, ahead of his evening show

Ed Sheeran floats through New York on a cloud of his own sunny high spirits in this hour-long Netflix special. He is the Candide of the music business, smiling benignly, strumming and singing, seamlessly pausing for selfies and fist-bumps and high-fives; he almost visibly absorbs energy from the saucer-eyed fan-worship shown by gobsmacked passersby and radiates it back at them.

Maybe you have to be a Sheeran fan to really appreciate it, but this is another single-take bravura special from film-maker Philip Barantini (who directed Netflix’s searing single-take drama Adolescence) and his director of photography Nyk Allen. With no cuts (though there’s an allowable fast-forward bit, and the audio might have been tweaked in post-production) they follow the unselfconscious Ed as he completes a late-afternoon soundcheck at the New York theatre where he’s playing a concert later on, and then for the next hour, and with fans pretty much always swarming around him, he wanders through the city with his guitar for various encounters, some planned, some (supposedly) not.

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© Photograph: Courtesy of Netflix 2025 ©

© Photograph: Courtesy of Netflix 2025 ©

© Photograph: Courtesy of Netflix 2025 ©

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