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| | | 'Propaganda literature': calls to close Mikhail Bulgakov museum in Kyiv | | by Luke Harding Dec 31, 2022 | | The Master and Margarita writer’s antipathy to Ukrainian nationalism has led to some demanding his old house be renamed or repurposed In his novel The White Guard, Mikhail Bulgakov painted an evocative portrait of his childhood home. Inside, there was a Dutch stove blazing with heat, a piano and a library, and cream-coloured curtains. The family’s first-floor apartment was located in “a two-storey house of strikingly unusual design”. In winter, the snow topping the roof resembled “a White general’s fur cap” – a reference to the anti-Bolshevik White movement. But Bulgakov’s house in Kyiv is now at the centre of a bitter public dispute. In Soviet times it became a literary museum. Ukraine’s national writers’ union has called for the museum at number 13A Andriivskyi Descent – a historic cobbled street linking the upper town with the district of Podil, on the banks of the Dnipro River – to be closed down. Continue reading... | | | | | Barbara Walters obituary | | by Ewen MacAskill Dec 31, 2022 | | Journalist who made US television history as the first female co-anchor of a network evening news show The award-winning journalist Barbara Walters had to break through lots of glass ceilings to become one of the best-known faces in US television news. Walters, who has died aged 93, began her career in the 1960s when the prevailing attitude among television executives was that viewers would not take seriously women delivering news about politics, war or other weighty subjects. Through a combination of talent and drive, Walters went on to make television history in 1974 as the first female co-host of NBC’s Today morning news show. Two years later, she switched to ABC to an even more prestigious job: the first female co-anchor of evening news on any network. Continue reading... | | | | | The anti-hibernation culture guide: something to enjoy for every day in January | | by Rachel Aroesti, Catherine Bray, Andrew Clements, John Fordham, Miriam Gillinson, Jonathan Jones and Lyndsey Winship Dec 31, 2022 | | You can spend the next few weeks under the duvet and in front of the telly, or enjoy world-class art, theatre, music, film and standup – here’s an event for each of the next 31 days MUSIC Floating Points
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New Year’s Eve is clearly a huge night in the clubbing calendar, but the following evening is a surprisingly big deal, too. This sure-to-be transcendental six-hour set from Sam Shepherd – whose clever, subtle and atmospheric electronic music makes him the thinking person’s producer (the fact he has a PhD in neuroscience also helps) – is ideal for those determined to delay the moment cold January reality sets in. Rachel Aroesti Continue reading... | | | | | |
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