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NEIL PEART Documentary ‘No One’s Disciple’ To Receive World Premiere At Toronto International Film Festival
A new documentary, “Neil Peart: No One’s Disciple”, chronicling the life of late RUSH drummer Neil Peart, will have its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival on 16 September 2026. Directed by Scot McFadyen and Sam Dunn, who previously made the 2010 RUSH documentary “Beyond The Lighted Stage”, the 96-minute film traces Peart’s…
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Netflix Acquires ‘An Open Field’ And ‘One Last Order,’ Short Docs Primed For Oscar Contention
Netflix has acquired two award-winning documentary shorts, “an open field” and “One Last Order,” positioning the streamer for potential Oscar contention in the documentary short category. The former, directed by Teboho Edkins, is a deeply personal film exploring the aftermath of the 2019 Ethiopian Airlines Boeing 737 MAX crash that killed his brother among all…
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Cricket fans call for new pitch at Sheffield park
Sports fans have asked for better cricket facilities at a Sheffield park in a deprived city area set to benefit from £20m in improvements.
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L’Rain Shares Evocative Single ‘elmyra’
L’Rain, the recording project of multi-disciplinary artist Taja Cheek, has released a new single titled ‘elmyra’, offering another preview of her forthcoming album. The track arrives ahead of the album’s release and a planned show at London’s ICA, continuing her run of previews for the project. The new single builds on a mesh of electronic…
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PaleyFest NY Launches New Award; Billy Crystal, ‘American Horror Story,’ ‘Dexter’ Among First Recipients
The Paley Center for Media has launched a new PaleyFest Award, to be presented annually as part of its PaleyFest NY festival, marking the honour’s debut alongside the Center’s 50th anniversary. The award recognises that selection for PaleyFest itself represents a mark of distinction, and winners’ work will become a permanent part of the Paley…
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Cleveland Clinic launches prescription drone delivery
Cleveland Clinic has launched a prescription drone delivery programme in partnership with Zipline, allowing eligible patients to have medications lowered into their gardens rather than collecting them in person. The scheme aims to ease the burden of pharmacy trips for people who are unwell or caring for others, and Cleveland Clinic says it represents the…
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The AI takeover of mathematics has begun
OpenAI has announced that an advanced unreleased AI model, known as Astra, produced solutions to 10 long-standing mathematics problems, some of which had stumped academics for decades. The development has stirred a mixture of excitement and unease among mathematicians, including Oxford’s Fields Medal-winning professor James Maynard, who describes grappling with what the shift means for…
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The Medicare-for-all trade-offs socialists aren’t talking about, according to experts
Michigan Democratic Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed is among several socialist-aligned candidates centring their midterm campaigns on Medicare-for-all, a policy that promises universal healthcare but which experts say carries costs beyond the tax rises its advocates openly acknowledge. Fox News reports that even sympathetic proponents concede higher taxes would be needed to fund the scheme, while…
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Who am I? Guess The Hundred cricket star No 22
This is not a news report but an interactive quiz feature from BBC Sport, part of a daily “Who am I?” series linked to The Hundred cricket tournament. Each day during the competition, readers are invited to identify a participating cricketer from a series of progressively revealed clues, with fewer guesses earning a higher score.…
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Judge deals blow to Mamdani plan to tax second homes
A judge in Staten Island, N.Y., temporarily blocked New York City Zohran Mamdani’s (D) rollout of a new tax on second homes worth more than $5 million, according to multiple reports. The ruling from Judge Wayne Ozzi, a Democrat on the state’s Supreme Court, required the city to take down a public list of 900,000-plus…