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Hany Abu AssadStatue Frank Ruiter 1 million movie, or 42 million movie? ‘It’s easy. $42 million. That was the budget of The Mountain Between Us (Abu-Assad’s 2017 romantic plane crash survival drama, red.† And now to 1 million, yes. Bee Huda’s Salon I suddenly had to do five or six things at once on the … Read more
Romeo and Romeo in Glasgow: that seems like a basis for a beautiful love story, where you hope that the ending is a little less dramatic than in the heterosexual original. However, this version is set in the ‘half rotten’ Glasgow where the consequences of Thatcher’s politics are felt every day, where unemployment is a … Read more
The earth is warming up, drying out, salinizing, impoverishing, radicalising… In short, we are dealing with climate change. It has a huge impact on the quality of life in our place of residence. Farmlands, towns, cities and entire regions are suffering from these extreme changes, which will soon grip our entire planet. The current impact … Read more
Time for an update (Image: Pexels / Edit: WANT) It is now lunch time again. We of course look at the live Bitcoin price and the prices of the top 25 crypto coins. Then we look at striking behavior in the oldest BTC wallets, we outline the ultimate worst case scenario and we look at … Read more
This is apparent from the ‘China Science Investigation’, a major investigation into 350,000 scientific publications by a group of European journalists, Follow the Money and RTL Nieuws. This concerns scientific knowledge for weapon technology, unmanned vehicles (drones), robotics and semiconductors, such as chips. Knowledge that China itself does not have but is necessary for the … Read more
During the general audience on May 18, Pope Francis explained that in the face of misery, we may express our wrath to God. Dear brothers and sisters, good morning! The biblical text we have just heard concludes the book of Job, a pinnacle of world literature. We meet Job in this series of catechesis on … Read more
Through † alphens.nl † Thursday 19 May 2022 at 13:15 Pupils of the Praktijkschool can’t believe their luck. Not only does Zorg & Dienstverlening have a new, large and well-organized room, there is also a Calisthenics sports equipment in the schoolyard. On Tuesday, both the room and the sports equipment were festively inaugurated. Tweet To … Read more
How did the spatial identity and orientation of Friesland develop and with what values was this ‘space’ filled over the centuries? And how much space do we give ourselves? Sometime in the seventies, when I sometimes did a ’round the IJsselmeer’ by racing bike, I was stopped halfway through the Afsluitdijk by a couple who … Read more
(Photo: Key City). Leiden, 14 May 2022, 9:00 am by the editors Maikel Stolwijk will not defend his title at the Leiden Marathon on Sunday. Born and raised in Leiden, he runs the half marathon in his hometown and knows that someone else will therefore take over his title. Last October, Stolwijk was the first … Read more
In Markt Centraal, a historic market hall in the middle of Amsterdam, a new music label will be launched tonight: Wap Shoo Wap Records. The gigantic hall has been converted into a kind of mini festival, including the mini Ferris wheel, known from De Parade and there is ‘Punk Pizza’ from the Houthoven. The common … Read more