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Friday, February 25, 2022

An Australian State Orchestra Finally Gets An Indigenous Conductor

 Revealed: The winners of Australia's best values wines for 2022 - and a $10 Riesling and $11 sparkling rose made the cut


A small cohort of guards is smuggling at least $10,000 worth of drugs into the centre every week, sources in Sydney facility claim


We Don’t Understand The Past, And We Don’t Have Any Idea What’s Coming

Or so says historian and science fiction author Ada Palmer. "As she sees it, societal progress may be stochastic, unpredictable, but certain constants shape its course. Just not the constants most people think, and not in the way they expect." - Wired


An Australian State Orchestra Finally Gets An Indigenous Conductor

At least for a brief time: Noongar man Aaron Wyatt "conducted the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra (MSO) in Long Time Living Here, a musical Acknowledgement of Country." And, Wyatt notes, for once he wasn't the only Indigenous classical musician at the symphony. - ABC (Australia)

Romance Isn’t Only For Twenty-Somethings

Let filmmaker Nancy Myers show Hollywood the way: "Rom-coms typically suggest that thrilling courtship is for people in their 20s and 30s." They fall in love and get married; the end. "In these films by Meyers, though, both protagonists delight in their divorced lives." - The Atlantic