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If you’re into horror series, Archive 81 is one that boasts a good storyline: Based on a fictional podcast of the same name, the new Netflix horror thriller follows film archivist Dan Turner who is offered USD 100k to restore a set of fire-damaged tapes on the condition that he does so in an abandoned basement. With a paycheck that big in store, he takes the job and soon finds himself enveloped in an oral history project undertaken by grad student Melody Pendras in 1994. Pendras was attempting to talk to the inhabitants of an apartment building that burned down in the 1920s. However, as both she and viewer Turner soon find out, the building was home to a supernatural cult that ends up with a horrific demise for her and all the people she interviewed. The show is told through these tapes and through Turner’s digging into the topic in a show that ping pongs between two storylines. The Guardian calls it “the horror series humanity needs right now” but is quick to point out a number of plot holes that take away from the show, but don’t cancel it out as an interesting watching experience.

⚽ Afcon has four matches on today: The two Group F leaders, Gambia and Mali, will compete today at 3pm, while the other two countries in the group will try to catch up as Mauritania and Tunisia start a match at 6pm. Meanwhile, Group E will see Ivory coast go up against Sierra Leone at 6pm and Algeria play Equatorial Guinea at 8pm. Egypt’s next match is against Sudan at 9pm on Wednesday.

The Egyptian League Cup: Future and Pyramids are currently on the field as we dispatch, while at 5pm, Al Ittihad will play against Al Masry and Misr Lel Mekassa against Eastern Company.

There are two matches in the Premier League at 4pm today: Liverpool vs. Brentford and West Ham vs. Leeds United.

The Supercopa de España final is definitely a match to watch, with Athletic Club and Real Madrid fighting for the title at 8:30pm.

Serie A: Sassuolo and Verona are finishing up their match as we dispatch, while Venezia and Empoli will hit the field soon at 4pm. Later, Roma and Cagliari will compete at 7pm and Atalanta has a match against Inter at 9:45pm.

Elche and Villareal kicked off their match at 3pm in La Liga.

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The Food District is your go-to for the start of any delicious meal: Located in Galleria 40, The Food District is a market, a restaurant, a deli, and a bakery — each of which has high quality items to choose from — with a great indoor/outdoor design to boot. There’s the option of sitting outside and ordering from the restaurant menu which has breakfast plates, burgers, pastas, and a variety of main dishes (pro tip: try their ginger shrimp). Otherwise, you can grab a quick bite to go from a selection of salads, pastries, and sandwiches as well as a fruit bar that you can make a sweet fruit salad from. The market is also a great place to pick something up — we were drawn to their selection of meats and cheese. They have a beef bacon jam and a nut-filled cheese that caught our taste buds' attention.

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Let out your inner art critic as a number of local galleries open new exhibitions:

The World Art Forum is ongoing at Cairo’s National Museum of Egyptian Civilization until Wednesday, 19 January. The inaugural edition of the forum, which kicked off yesterday, will see artists from around the world participating.

It’s opening night of Kodak Passageway’s newest exhibition Mastic & Musk organized by Art To Heart and featuring a lineup of artists from all corners of the country.

Almashrabia Gallery has on Abdelwahab Hawam’s new exhibit Rosy Dreams.

Some Art School and Gallery is hosting group exhibition Echoes of the Eye with works that “navigate the conditions of gain, loss and transformation that characterize identity-formation in the worlds they inhabit today.”

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Impress your friends with your quick maths knowledge, like the fact that 1 mn seconds is 12 days: Making Numbers Count by Chip Heath and Karla Starr offers dozens of these facts while also showing you how to incorporate numbers on a day to day basis. The book outlines the specific principles that reveal how to translate a number into our brain’s language such as simple perspective cues (using comparisons), vividness (visualize the size of an object), convert to a process (demonstrating time through daily processes), and emotional measuring stick (framing the number in something people care about). As consumers and producers of news content, we’ve seen all of these principles show up in well-written news articles to help with explaining a certain point. But even if you’re not a journalist, understanding the numbers that animate our world allows you to bring more data into your decision-making process in personal or professional spaces.