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There was a time the very thought of Cruella would have been met with outrage. I know this because I would have been outraged. Of all subcultures to be hijacked by Disney, 70s London wasteland punk is surely the most heinous.
Now? Well, what punk could even mean in 2021 is open to offers. While Disney releases Cruella â a pop blockbuster filtered through $200m of corporate compromise â Danny Boyle is making Pistol, a TV adaptation of the memoir of the Sex Pistolsâ Steve Jones. And yes, one of these instinctively feels more punk than the other. And yes, it is Cruella.
The Museums on the Green will host nine virtual talks in June as part of its ongoing Virtual Museum Series. This month, authors and historians from across the country will be talking about an epic Grand Prix race, New World explorers, female pioneers, slave traders, whaling captains, the countryâs first baseball players and Americaâs elite alpine warriors, the 10th Mountain Division.
The museums will also host its first, free Virtual Trivia Night on Thursday, June 3, at 7 PM, and award its 2021 Katharine Lee Bates Historian Award to acclaimed author and historian Nathaniel Philbrook at a special free talk about his book, âMayflower,â on Thursday, June 17, at 7 PM.
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Lest we forget. The fear, the weeks of waiting, the vivid force of the eyewitness testimony; the replaying of grisly footage and then the shock of the conviction: the whole drama of the Derek Chauvin trial its obscenity and thin catharsis would not have taken place at all were it not for last year’s riots. Police trials are rare. So is national uprising: looting, acts of vandalism, and the nightly carnival of torched police cars are what vaulted George Floyd’s death from single cruelty to American crisis, as the fires of Minneapolis swept through every major city. It feels both near and far now.