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Sunday, 2 January 2022

Check out legendary graphic designer Paul Rand’s exhibit + say ‘farewell’ to the past year with Netflix’s Death to 2021

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Netflix sums it all up with mockumentary Death to 2021: Think Enterprise’s Year in Reviews, only with celebrities, dirty jokes, and a ton of weird interview questions, and you get Death to 2021. The mockumentary looks at the events, trends, and experiences of the past year and explores them through hilarious skits and interviews, delving into topics such as modern-day dating, influencers and cancel culture as well as more political events such as the raid on Capitol Hill and the scuffles within the British royal family. If you’re a fan of dark and audacious humor, you’ll appreciate the mockumentary’s brand of comedy, according to First Post. The one-hour recap of the year is a therapeutic way to laugh at all the chaos 2021 threw at us… and finally say good riddance, they write.

Liverpool will play against Chelsea in gameweek 21 of the English Premier League today at 6:30pm. The two teams — who occupy the second and third places — have been facing some difficulties in their last matches, as Chelsea, who led the league for several rounds, tied three times in the last five games and expanded the point difference with league leaders Manchester City to 11 points. Meanwhile, Liverpool suffered a sudden defeat at the hands of Leicester City in the last round to widen the difference with City to 12 points. Today we also have three matches that will start soon at 4pm: Brentford vs. Aston Villa, Everton vs. Brighton, Leeds vs. Burnley.

Spanish League: Getafe will play against Real Madrid at 3pm while at 5:15pm, Atlético Madrid will host Rayo Vallecano and Elche will compete against Granada. At 7:30pm, Deportivo Alavés will face Real Sociedad and Real Betis will face Celta Vigo, before we conclude the day with Mallorca and Barcelona at 10pm.

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Kaya Restobar brings good food and good music to the table: If you’re hungry or just bored while in Sheraton, check out Kaya Restobar which is an amazing place to hear some live music or just get together with friends. The menu is full of great dishes which vary from yummy snacks to a fancy meal. We love their cheesy spinach dip, their seafood appetizer platter, and their chicken wings as starters. Main dishes include a variety of steaks, a flavorful mushroom risotto, lamb sausages, and seafood flambé which comes with flames rising from the plate. For a sweet treat, try out their creamy tiramisu.

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AUC’s Tahrir Culture Center has an exhibition showing works by the late legendary graphic designer Paul Rand: The exhibit, titled The Idealist/Realist, touches on the origins of branding design, visual identity design, editorial design, and advertising, with the event expected to run until 20 January. Rand is best known for his corporate logo designs, including the logos for IBM, UPS, Enron, Morningstar, and ABC.

Ubuntu Art Gallery has two new exhibitions on: Middle of Nowhere, Center of Everywhere by Hakim AbouKila features a number of surreal and colorful paintings while Let's Ride a Bike by Sayda Khalil showcases mixed-material sculptures that have all been formed to look like bikes.

It’s sure to be a great night at Sheikh Zayed’s Cairo Jazz Club this Wednesday as Dina El Wedidi and underground band Wust El Balad take the stage at 9pm.

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J. Storrs Hall wonders where the Jetsons era is in his book, Where Is My Flying Car? Flying cars have been expected to arrive any minute now since the 1962 release of the famous animated sitcom The Jetsons, but we’ve remained relegated to a life without the luxuries of George Jetson. Hall — who is a research fellow at the Institute for Molecular Manufacturing and an associate editor of the International Journal of Nanotechnology and Molecular Computation — poses a few explanations for why the world’s cars are still grounded. The first is what he calls the “Machiavelli effect”: Innovators have no room to explore new ideas and technologies as institutions and funding systems continue to reward cadres or those who are politically skilled, writes the WSJ. Otherwise, scientists often suffer from “failures of nerve” or “failures of the imagination” which limits their creativity by making them assume that they already know everything that can be known and results that oppose these “facts” are wrong.

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