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Click here to read the full article. Argentine helmer Gaspar Noé’s latest feature “Vortex” world premiered in Cannes, where it was greeted with a standing ovation and critical acclaim. Variety spoke to the director at the Unifrance Rendez-vous in Paris this week about the film. “Vortex,” lensed during the 2020 lockdown, follows an elderly couple in a Paris apartment. Shot entirely in split-screen, it marks a new departure for Noé, with a more meditative realistic ambience, combined with a transcendental undercurrent. More from Variety Former NBCUniversal Vice Chairman Ron Meyer Named Wild Bunch CEO Gaspar Noé's 'Vortex' Sells to Utopia Following Acclaimed Cannes Debut (EXCLUSIVE) Former Wild Bunch, Pathé International Top Execs Launch Maremako With 'Stalk' Remake With Drake, Ben Stiller On Board; 'French Love' (EXCLUSIVE) The elderly man is a retired film critic, played by Italian filmmaker Dario Argento (“Suspiria”), who is trying to finish a book … [Read more...] about Gaspar Noe on ‘Vortex’ and the Changing World of Cinema

8 A Bay Area environmental group sued some of the world’s biggest food, beverage and product manufacturers Wednesday, accusing them of polluting the world’s oceans and waterways, including San Francisco and Monterey bays, with millions of tons of plastic. The lawsuit, filed in San Mateo Superior Court by the Berkeley-based Earth Island Institute, accuses 10 of the giants in soft drink, food, candy, personal care and cleaning products sales of essentially overwhelming the world’s ecosystem with plastic while falsely claiming the bottles, containers and packaging material they produce will be recycled when most of it won’t be. The complaint accuses Coca-Cola, PepsiCo, Nestle, Clorox, Danone, Colgate-Palmolive, Procter & Gamble, Mars, Crystal Geyser and Mondelez of negligence, creating a public nuisance, breaching their warranties and failing to warn consumers about the dangers of plastics. Earth Island, which is … [Read more...] about Bay Area group sues Coke, Pepsi, other giants over plastic pollution ‘poisoning everything’

5 Kathryn Kellogg may be one of the most subversive people in the Bay Area. Not in the sense of being a troublemaker — far from it — but she’s out to overturn entire systems and ways of thinking. Instead of focusing on recycling to save the planet, she wants people to rethink how they make, use and dispose of everything and shift to an economy that writes trash out of existence. And she’s planning to do it in the nicest possible way. As a zero-waste expert who “aims to send nothing to the landfill,” Kellogg is not out to scold anyone for owning a car. She’s a genuine happy warrior for Earth, approaching waste reduction with creativity. Through her Going Zero Waste website, Instagram account (@going.zero.waste) and book “101 Ways to Go Zero Waste,” she hopes to convert people to a waste-free, or at least lower-waste, lifestyle. Kellogg, 28, along with Bea Johnson, author of “Zero Waste Home,” and zero-waste chef Anne-Marie Bonneau, are … [Read more...] about Take this first step for a zero-waste lifestyle

The television industry, producing shows at a clip we’ve never seen, has one message for you: Quit your job. How else could you possibly keep up with the never-ending stream of content coming your way—and nearly all of it star-studded, expensively produced, and, for various reasons, worth your time. We started making a list of every show, new and returning, premiering this fall, but when the list crossed 100 shows before we were even through October on the calendar, we had a panic attack and decided to focus solely on the crop of new series (and limited series with new installments) competing for your attention. Here are the 50 most intriguing—including revivals of Will & Grace , Curb Your Enthusiasm , and TRL , a James Franco porn drama , an adorable spin-off of The Big Bang Theory , and must-see projects featuring the likes of Lady Gaga, Steven Spielberg, Jerry Seinfeld, and the imitable Tiffany “New York” Pollard—all presented in order of premiere dates. … [Read more...] about 50 New Fall TV Shows Worth Watching: ‘Will & Grace,’ Lady Gaga, Twin James Francos & More

Instead of bringing the trees to town, The New York Times Company and the Kimberly-Clark Corporation brought a town to the trees. In the 1920s, to ensure a steady supply of newsprint for The Times and business for Kimberly-Clark, makers of Kleenex, the companies dammed the Mattagami River at Smoky Falls, amid northern Ontario’s boundless ocean of black spruce, poplar, tamarack and birch; harnessed the river’s power through four gigantic turbines; forged a 50-mile railroad; constructed an enormous mill; and leased the cutting rights to 4,300 square miles of boreal forest — an area twice the size of Prince Edward Island. Their $30 million investment, or about $400 million today, did not stop there. They developed the tiny settlement of Kapuskasing (kapus-KAYS-ing) into a full-fledged company town along the radiant concentric lines of a garden city. It had a hospital and a community clubhouse; riverfront parkland; curling and skating rinks; a public school for 400 students; … [Read more...] about A New York Times Company Town Deep in the Ontario Wilderness

ST. LOUIS (AP) — The current surge in virus cases in Missouri driven by the spread of the highly contagious omicron variant is straining hospital capacity and making it difficult to transfer patients to larger hospitals. Kellie Meehan told the St. Louis Post-Dispatch that she can hear the desperation in doctors' and nurses' voices when they call the Mercy transfer center that she oversees. But increasingly she has to turn down their transfer requests. “What is happening now, unfortunately, is these patients are not getting the care they need, and they are not surviving in some cases,” Meehan said. Virus hospitalizations have risen sharply across Missouri in recent weeks to hit 3,526 on Thursday, which is the most recent data available. That's more than 700 higher than last year's peak. That often means that patients are often waiting for a bed in emergency rooms for extended periods of time. CEO Michael Calhoun said his Citizens Memorial Hospital in Bolivar, Missouri, has had … [Read more...] about Surge in virus hospitalizations makes transfers difficult

Gabriella Santamaria, 9, holds up a picture of her uncle Stephen who died from a heroin overdose during a candlelight vigil on Staten Island. Photo: Spencer Platt/Getty Images For the past few years, figures illustrating the nation’s overdose death toll, driven largely by opioids like Oxycontin and fentanyl, have been appearing in headlines with jaw-dropping frequency. In 2019, drug overdoses eclipsed car crashes as the leading cause of accidental death in the United States. For much of 2020 , the daily death toll surpassed that of car accidents and gun deaths combined. Then, at the end of 2021, the CDC released a study showing that the U.S. had officially surpassed 1 million overdose deaths since the agency began collecting such data in 1999. It was a grim milestone that passed unceremoniously, perhaps because it was  overshadowed by the COVID-19 pandemic or because Americans are by now well-aware of the toll opioids have taken on the country. That awareness is thanks, in … [Read more...] about One Million Dead