From Britney to Trump, the streaming sites got your back
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Streaming sites are big on biographies and documentaries this week, releasing portraits of everyone from Trump and R. Kelly to Britney Spears: Limited series The Comey Rule is adapted from former FBI director James Comey’s memoir, A Higher Loyalty, which explores his fraught relationship with then-US President Donald Trump. Meanwhile, Surviving R. Kelly Part II: The Reckoning looks at the escalating case against the musician as more women come forward with allegations. The release of the documentary couldn’t have been more timely as R. Kelly was found guilty of [redacted trafficking] yesterday and faces life in prison. Finally, Britney Vs Spears takes a deeper look at the #FreeBritney movement as the singer tries to break out of a years-long conservatorship handed to her father.
⚽We have another eight matches this evening in the UEFA Champions League: At 6:45 pm it’s Atlanta vs Young Boys and Zenit taking on Malmo FF. Later, at 9 pm, Benfica and Barcelona will hit the field, Bayern Munich and Dynamo Kyiv will face each other, Juventus will look to put down Chelsea, Man Utd will play Villarreal, Salzburg kick off against Lille and Wolfsburg will take on Sevilla.
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Massar Egbari is taking the stage at Cairo Jazz Club 610 in El Guezira Plaza tonight at 9 pm with their alternative rock, jazz and blues tunes, which have become fixtures of the local music scene.
It’s Afrobeat and reggaeton night at Cairo Jazz Club in Agouza, with BubbleGum Kollectiv taking the stage at 8 pm (postponed from this past Monday).
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Pulitzer Prizewinning author Richard Powers is out with a new novel that tackles climate change with an enchanting narrative: Bewilderment follows astrobiologist and single father Theo Byrne and his nine-year-old son Robin, who has a strong love for nature that he inherited from his late mother, an environmental lawyer. While usually warm-natured, Robin is given psychoactive meds to control his temper, so when Bryne learns of a neurological treatment he jumps at the chance to help his son. The treatment involves training the boy on the recorded patterns of his mother’s brain, ingraining in him a rebelliousness against the climate change-denying government and putting the young boy in the center of ongoing political strife. Powers paints a haunting picture of life as it might be years from now and poses a question for readers through his narrative: What kind of world do we want our children to inherit? The book is this month’s Oprah’s Book Club pick, for better or for worse.