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fromLos Angeles Times
3 days ago

John Burton, powerful liberal who shaped California politics for decades, dies

John L. Burton was a liberal, pro‑labor California lawmaker who shaped policy for six decades and led the state Senate as president pro tem.
fromwww.theguardian.com
1 week ago

Mother Vera review luminous portrait of a horse-wrangling ex-heroin addict nun

The opening sequence is extraordinary: a nun drops to the floor in devotion, hidden under the swathes of black habit puddling across the stone floor. There is more of this to come in photographer Alys Tomlinson and film-maker Cecile Embleton's beautiful black and white documentary. It is film of stillness, long, long takes and careful framing and would look at home playing on the walls of an art gallery.
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