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The Saint John Harbour canflummoxeven the most seasoned sailors.

A small boat gets pushed by the tides in unusual ways. The Bay of Fundy fog makes it easy to get turned around. Huge container ships pass by frequently on their way to the west side docks, generating big waves in their wake. And thenthere's Reversing Falls.

In most places, "usually you can feel how fast your boat's going," said Erica Lush, a sailor on the racing yacht Maiden who grew up in Jamestown, R.I.

Lush and her crew mates spoke to CBC New Brunswick during a two-hour media sail around the outer harbour of Saint John on Thursdaybefore the fog cleared.

"Here you could be moving forwards, and actually be moving backwards," Lush said as a passing cargo ship loomed ominously through the heavy mist, chased by flocks of cormorants and seagulls. "So you've really got to keep track of the charts and your speed."

Visibility on Thursday was "probably two boat lengths of Maiden in front of us," said skipper Liz Wardley, who grew up on fishing boats in Papua New Guinea, and completed her first around-the-world-race at age 20.

"In addition to the low visibility, the tides have a fierce reputation in the area," said Lush. "We've had a bit of a learning curve figuring out when's the best time to get on and off the dock, even.

"Obviously, we've got charts and radars. But we're not locals, so we don't know off the top of our heads, 'Oh, the marks are here and these ships come in now at this time of day.' So all those things are sort of floating factors we've got to juggle."

Navigating all of those factors is a testament to the skills of the crew of Maiden, which is currently on a 90,000-nautical-mileeducation journey around the world that started in Dubai in January and will conclude in December 2024.

The 58-foot vessel's mission is promoting girls' education and motivating women to enter careers in STEAM: science, technology, engineering, art, and math. Money raised by the Maiden Factor go toward girls' educational programs.

It is making its only Canadian stop in Saint John until Aug. 13.The public can take open boat tours Saturday, Aug. 6, and Sunday, Aug. 7.

The all-women crew hails from around the world Australia, Antigua, the U.S., Canada and the U.K.

"We've got a lady from India joining us soon, [and a] South African]," Wardley said. "So it's very diverse. They've all come from completely different walks of life and sailing experience."

Wardley recalled the surprise on one pilot's face when he boarded the Maiden at 3 a.m. to take it through the Panama Canal.

"He's just looking around. He goes, 'Where is the captain?' To me! And I said, 'It's me. Sorry to disappoint.' He couldn't believe it. All these women just kept coming out of all the hatches on the boat, and he's just looking around, going, 'Oh. What is going on?'"

The appeal of living and working on the ocean is that it's "very adventurous," said competitive sailor and Maiden crew member Junella King, 22, who grew up in Antigua and sailed competitively with the Antigua Star Sailors League team.

"It's nice. Keeps my adrenaline going."

Pumping adrenaline is one of the more pleasant sensations brought on by high seas and speeds up to 18 knots.

"For me personally, I do get seasick," King said. "So that's a big challenge for me. Unfortunately, the patches, the bands, the pills, nothing works for me.

"I just gotta deal with it. I am mobile while sick. I will get up, and throw up, and go back down and finish doing what I got to do."

But with bouts of nausea come moments that couldn't be experienced anywhere else.

Likethe night when, drifting silently through the Red Sea, the crew "got to see the beautiful moon and the bioluminescent plankton," Kingsaid. "It was gorgeous."

It's onboard reporter Jenn Edney's job to capture those moments.

"I've been doing reporting and adventure photography for the past 13 years and primarily ocean-based sailing," said Edney, who grew up in Nebraska and was "afraid of the ocean" until she did a 60-day outward bound semester just after college.

"I chose that course to conquer some fears andpush myself out of my comfort zone.

"I think that's been a key part of my career. You know, I wonder sometimes: what came over me to say yes to some of these really scary things? But every time I've said yes, it's just turned into something amazing.

That's where growth happens and evolution happens."

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Cal Currier didnt know when he left Marion harbor alone on Argo that hed be gone 28 hours, much less 28 days. The option was always there to bail, and it wasnt a matter of bravado.

At age 16, the California-raised grandson of longtime Marion resident Bill Saltonstall knew he has his whole life in front of him and easily could have entertained a very reasonable argument to wait a year, whats the rush, imagine how much easier this will be with that much more sailing experience.

His thinking? Why not do it while he had the chance.

What made it possible and made me not nervous is my father and I labbed it all out, we did all the math, we figured out what the real dangers were, what the less-real dangers were, and we realized that the dangers werent as great as many people think they are, said Currier on Monday during a visit to the Saltonstalls Front Street home.

So Currier turned the corner around Bird Island and sailed across the Atlantic in his Tartan-brand, 30-foot sailboat that he bought for $12,000 from 90-year-old Sandy Van Zandt in Noank, Connecticut.

As Bill Saltonstall explained, Van Zandt had been tweaking the early-fiberglass design for just such an excursion. In addition, being a tank as Bill Saltonstall called it; the tightly spaced Argo is useful for little else.

Late last year, Currier was sailing for the first time. He only started taking lessons in January in San Francisco Bay, but his pedigree is impressive. Both his grandfather and his father James Currier, had sailed solo across the Atlantic. His mother Katrina (Saltonstall) Currier readily admits that she needed some convincing, but she also knew her husband and father would not place her son in harms way.

I left in 20-knot winds because I wasnt sure if I was going to go all the way across, and I wanted to either prove to myself that I couldnt do it and therefore turn around or prove to myself that I could do it so I left in as nasty conditions as I could, he said.

The increments were the first three days if yes or no, followed by nine days in the thick of it, but Currier knew he had enough from that point to motor to the Azores if something bad happened.

The 3,900-mile journey took 28 days. He once overslept and went 50 miles off course but says he learned his lesson. Marion-based sailor and climatologist Jennifer Francis lent her assistance in monitoring the weather.

Though the pedigree was not literally along for the ride, much in the way of experience, guidance and technology was present via their preparation. Currier was reminded he could turn back at any point experienced sailors say it is harder to sail the Atlantic east to west than west to east but when he reached the Azores, he wanted to continue and finally landed his boat in Lagos on the southern coast of Portugal.

Satisfaction and relief, I guess. I was really excited to see people that I could talk to, he said. It was nice to land there to see my family, but I guess what I had done hadnt really registered in my mind because every day blended together.

Curriers accomplishment was featured on the NBC Today show on July 26, as he was celebrated as likely the youngest ever to sail solo west to east across the Atlantic.

Asked on Today about the darkness out on the open ocean and what he learned most about himself, Currier thought about those whom he missed out there by himself.

I guess what Id say I learned most about myself is how important people are to me, he told the panel. Ive always considered myself to be somewhat of an introverted extrovert, where I like to be with myself, but at the end of the day I love people, and that was reaffirmed with that. I really missed people the whole time so I dont think Ill do any large solo expeditions anymore; its just more fun to be with people.

Cal Currier, twin to brother Bodie, the two being the youngest of four Currier children, is a serious volleyball player at Palo Alto (California) High School, and the sport may play a role as he figures out a college.

Sailing is not a one-off, however, as Cal is plotting a potential sail next summer in the Mediterranean Sea.

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Dear Smiley: Here is another Timbalier Bay oilfield story. This one involves Dave Crosby, skipper of the boat Hanna Baby.

One Christmas lunch, we put on a big feast, and sent the boat to Leeville to collect wives of the engineers and our superintendent.

Dave picked up the wives, headed down Bayou Lafourche, through the Havoline Canal into Terrebonne Bay.

(Note that most crew boats have dual controls for operating the vessel.)

As they cruised along, Dave tells the superintendent's wife Renia to take the wheel, because he needs to check on the engines in the back.

He pointed the bow of the Hanna Baby at the tall communication tower in the distance, and assured her it was open water, nothing to dodge, just keep the boat pointed at the tower.

Then Dave, unbeknown to the crew, grabbed the rear controls, and proceeded to turn the boat back and forth, side to side, eliciting screams from Renia and the other wives.

After giving his guests a thorough roller coaster ride, Dave staggered back to the bridge. "Renia, what in the world were you doing?" he quizzed her, trying to keep a straight face but then busting out laughing.

At the dock, we heard the wives' excited replay of the prank. And luckily for Dave, the superintendent chuckled over his shenanigans.

PETER DASSEY

Kenner

Dear Smiley: More on Louisiana nicknames:

Lots of Louisiana men got the nicknames "Boog" or "Booger;" probably a derivation of the French "bougre," meaning "buddy" or "man," as in "Comment ca va, bougre?" (How's it going, buddy?)

EARL HIGGINS

River Ridge

Dear Smiley: (More about your recent discussion of double-meaning words.)

"Admissible" and "inadmissible" have opposite meanings, but "flammable" and "inflammable" mean the same thing.

CHARLIE ANDERSON

Shreveport

Dear Smiley: I was thinking about your mention of strange dishes in the Tuesday column.

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During the Depression in the 1930s, one could buy a beef round steak to make grillades for 35 cents, but often we didn't have 35 cents.

We did have eggs, because my grandmother kept chickens. My mother made a grillades gravy, cut hard boiled eggs in half, heated them in the gravy, then served it over rice.

We called the dish "stewed eggs," and enjoyed it very much.

NATHALIE G. NELSON

Metairie

Dear Smiley: On the subject of steaks and steak restaurants: 48 years ago, when my wife Katherine and I were married, our first residence was a one-bedroom apartment in Gretna.

There was a nearby restaurant called "Buck Forty-Nine," which was also the price of their specialty steak dinner.

It was not prime rib, but for that price you received a decent steak and sides.

To put it into perspective, a steak dinner for two was cheaper than the price of a half-pound of ground meat at today's prices.

DAVID PALMISANO

Marrero

Dear Smiley: This poor couple spent a four-day honeymoon in New Orleans, at the apartment of my uncles friend on the corner of Bourbon and St. Ann.

At the end of our honeymoon, he came by with two frozen rib-eyes as a gift.

A week later, as we were having toast for breakfast in our tiny garage apartment, my husband described how he would grill the steaks for dinner.

We cant afford grilled steaks! I answered.

That evening we enjoyed a delicious rib-eye in brown gravy with rice and white beans. We had the leftovers for dinner two nights later.

The following week we feasted on rib-eye red gravy with spaghetti and garlic bread; leftovers enjoyed again.

Now, 54 years later, rib-eye spaghetti is still a frequent family dinner. And I often entertain with rib-eye brown gravy with grits: a big hit with out-of-town company.

My eight grandchildren, who prefer their steak medium-rare, closer to rare, are not as impressed.

BILLIE LANDRY

Erath

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Here are some upcoming events in Grapevine, Colleyville and Southlake in August and September.

Aug. 6, Sept. 3 & Oct. 1: Enjoy some bluegrass music

Bluegrass at the Settlement features an outdoor bluegrass show and open jam session. Guests may bring chairs and coolers. Noon-4 p.m. Free. Settlement to City Museums, 206 W. Hudgins St., Grapevine. 800-457-6338. https://bit.ly/3zUmryM

Aug. 8-14: Hunt for treasure

Join the crew at Sea Life Aquarium in Grapevine Mills for a high seas adventure. Follow the pirate activity map through each exhibit, including the Ocean Tunnel and the Stingray Bay Exhibit, to find golden treasure. 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Mon.-Thu., 10 a.m.-8 p.m. Fri.-Sat., 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Sun. Tickets start at $19.99. 3000 Grapevine Mills Parkway, Ste. 525, Grapevine. 469-444-3050. http://www.visitsealife.com/grapevine

Aug. 12, and 19, 26: Network with coffee

The Colleyville Chamber of Commerces morning networking group meets every Friday for a cup of coffee and connections. Attendees can mingle with other business owners and entrepreneurs at Palios Pizza Cafe in Colleyville. 8:30-9:30 a.m. Free. 5712 Colleyville Blvd., Ste. 130, Colleyville. 817-488-7148. http://www.colleyvillechamber.org

Aug. 12: Meet an author

Join Jeff Guinn, a Texas Literary Hall of Fame member and author, as he discusses his book The Last Gunfight: The Real Story of the Shootout at the O.K. Corraland How It Changed the American West at the Colleyville Public Library. A light lunch will be served, and a book signing will follow the presentation. Attendees age 18 and older are welcome. Free. Noon-1:30 p.m. Registration required. 110 Main St., Colleyville. 817-503-1155. https://bit.ly/3o2YA9r

Aug. 13, 20, 27: Adopt a furry friend

PetSmart Southlake will be holding adoptions every Saturday in August with Lost Paws Rescue of Texas. Lost Paws Rescue of Texas is a volunteer 501(c)(3) charity that rescues abandoned dogs and cats in hopes of finding them a permanent home. To adopt, you must be at least 21 years old. 9 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Adoption fees vary. 200 S. Village Center Drive, Southlake. 817-251-6848. http://www.lostpawsrescueoftexas.org

Aug. 13: Go outdoors for this open house

Learn about local wildlife, hear the story of the Jones family and speak with staff about the various trails and programs available at Bob Jones Nature Center & Preserves open house. The Bob Jones Nature Center & Preserve has almost 700 species of flora and fauna for visitors to learn about. No registration is required. 9 a.m.-3 p.m. Free. 355 E. Bob Jones Road, Southlake. 817-748-8019. https://bit.ly/3yyoGWI

Aug. 19: Salute to Elvis

Join Kraig Parker & The Royal Tribute Band for The King LivesA Salute to Elvis Starring Kraig Parker at the Palace Theater. 7:30 p.m. $32-$42, $15 (kids under 12). The Palace Arts Center, 300 S. Main St. Grapevine. https://bit.ly/3clipWR

Aug. 20: Drink beer and buy art

Join Hop and Sting Brewing Co. for its August art market, which supports The Usual Artspects, a nonprofit for sexual assault survivors. The event will feature local artists, food trucks, craft beer and live music. The event is family- and pet-friendly. Noon-6 p.m. Free (admission). 906 Jean St., Grapevine. 817-488-2337. http://www.hopandsting.com

Aug. 20: Run for charity

The Hot Hatch Chile Run, Walk & Roll 10K & 5K, and 1-mile fun run supports the Neuro Assistance Foundation, a nonprofit that assists people with spinal cord injuries and other disabilities. Participants may sign up online. 7 a.m. $25-$50. 1425 E. Southlake Blvd., Southlake. http://www.playtri.com/all-races/hothatchrun

Aug. 28: Laugh out loud

3 Fools on 3 Stools promises a night of foot tapping and belly laughing at Big Daddys Ship Store. Enjoy a crowd-pleasing show of stylings of Texas music, original songs and classic tunes with interactive jokes, contest games, prizes and more. 5 p.m. Free (admission). 2500 Oak Grove Loop S., Ste. 200, Grapevine. 817-308-6607. http://www.3fools.net

Sept. 3: Enjoy some jazz

Get ready for jazz classics with the seven-piece jazz combo Just Jazz at Central Market. Listen to music from great composers such as Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, Benny Goodman and more. Outdoor patio seating available. 6 p.m. Free (admission). 1425 E. Southlake Blvd., Southlake. 817-688-7632. http://www.justjazzband.com

Sept. 8: Party on Main Street

Head to Sloan & Williams Winery to celebrate the 10th annual birthday bash for the Kathee Livengood Memorial Scholarship Fund. Since 2013, the fund has awarded 146 scholarship to help women improve their lives through education. Enjoy a silent auction, S&W wines, appetizers, birthday cake and more. 5-8 p.m. Free (admission). 401 S. Main St., Grapevine. http://www.grapevinechamber.org/kathee-livengood-memorial-scholarship-fund/

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The 2022 Sailing Development Week in Rarotonga included past participants who had sailed at both the London and Rio Olympics. Photo/Tina Godbert

Spending the school holidays in the Cook Islands would be a special treat for any student, but transporting themselves there by sea took it to another level for three Kerikeri High sailors.

Erin Kee, Charley Cates and Isla Kee were among 20 young sailors from around the country who travelled to the Cook Islands for the 2022 Sailing Development week in Rarotonga.

Fifteen-year-old Erin Kee said the sailors took part in a variety of on and off-water activities, all revolving around the goal of improving their sailing knowledge, strengthening key skills and team building.

Kee said the experience had taught her "the importance of having contacts, and not being afraid to use them. And to be humble."

Kee has been dinghy sailing for just under two years but was no newbie to the sea.

"I grew up living on a yacht with my family in New Zealand and overseas, so I've always known my way around the water."

She said the trip was beneficial in that it allowed her to get to know and work together with people who enjoyed the sport as much as she did.

She also valued "being able to experience sailing in a very different environment with new boats".

During the first few days of the expedition, the group sailed traditional vakas, which Kee said she believed were the Cook Islands' version of wakas.

Ross Sutherland, who's a founding member of the New Zealand Team Sailing Association, said he and Derry Godbert of Kerikeri started the development regattas in 2004 following an invite from Sailing Cook Islands.

"This year was the first time the sailors got to try a different style of craft, which is only found in the Cook Islands and needs good teamwork to sail," Sutherland said.

"It's a very tricky boat to sail."

"It has an outrigger on the port (right) side of the boat, which makes sailing it very tricky at times," agreed Kee.

"On one tack, it's like sailing a keeler and on the other, it's like sailing a catamaran.

"They were very tippy at times but incredibly fun to sail."

The regatta wasn't without unpredictable challenges and would have perhaps been incomplete without them.

"A storm came in and the huge swells caused a lot of damage to many resorts across Rarotonga," Kee said.

"We decided that we couldn't sail safely, so we explored the island for a few days instead."

The other founder of the development regattas, Kerikeri's Godbert, attended this year's event at age 88. Godbert was the coach, umpire and rescue/media boat.

Perhaps inspired by his and Sutherland's leadership, Kee said she hoped "to do some coaching to get others on the water because I think it's awesome".

"I think sailing will always be a big part of my life, and I hope to sail competitively."

Past attendees at the regatta have sailed at both the London and Rio Olympics.

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When it comes to reggae and roots music The Rolling Stones always pilfered like high seas pirates with benevolent intent. They had their finger to the pulse and back in 1973, they decided a sunshine excursion was necessary to cutGoats Head Soupin Jamaica. This was a time Keith Richards remembered fondly in an interview withRolling Stonemagazine, [It was] very memorable, especially in that year. Because that was 73. That was the year that[Bob] Marley and the Wailers put outCatch A Fire.

I remember being in Jamaica. There was this feeling in the air, actually, that Jamaica was starting to make a mark on the map. It was a great feeling. After the record was cut, Richards was so enamoured with the place that he decided to stay in the Caribbean for a while. He immersed himself in the vivified culture and basked in the sun-soaked glory of Reggae and good times on tap as the cultural revolution finally stepped out from the stifling impact of colonialism and its exuberance joyfully infected the world.

Naturally, the music of the great island stayed with Richards even after he left, and he was frequently playing around with reggae riffs. However, they didnt always immediately work alongside his natural blues bent. This was certainly the case with Start Me Up which was originally worked on during theSome Girls sessions back in 1977. It took four years to whip into shape forTattoo You.

The story here is the miracle that we ever found that track, Richards explained. I was convinced and I think Mick was that it was definitely a reggae song. And we did it in 38 takes Start me up. Yeah, man, cool. You know, you know, Jah Rastafari. And it didnt make it. And somewhere in the middle of a break, just to break the tension, Charlie and I hit the rock and roll version. And right after that we went straight back to reggae. And we forgot totally about this one little burst in the middle, until about five years later when somebody sifted all the way through these reggae takes.

After this gestation period, the party feel for the song became clear. After doing about 70 takes of Start Me Up he found that one in the middle, Richards continues. It was just buried in there. Suddenly I had it. Nobody remembered cutting it. But we leapt on it again. We did a few overdubs on it, and it was like a gift, you know? One of the great luxuries of The Stones is we have an enormous, great big can of stuff. I mean what anybody hears is just the tip of an iceberg, you know. And down there is vaults of stuff. But you have to have the patience and the time to actually sift through it.

Thereafter, Jagger decided to keep things simple and filled the song with typical tropes from his songwriting style. Thus, sexy lyrics and gyrating were layered on top, and the song was finished. However, as producer Richard Buskin recalls, it still wasnt to Richards liking: After they cut it, I said, Thats bloody great! Come and listen. However, when I played it back Keith said, Nah, it sounds like something Ive heard on the radio. Wipe it.

Adding: Of course, I didnt, but he really did not like it and Im not sure whether he likes it to this day. I dont think its one of his favorite songs, although its obviously everyones favourite guitar riff; his guitar riff. Maybe because Keith loves reggae so much, he wanted it to be a reggae song, but that wasnt to be.

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Installation view of works by Nick Cave in In the Black Fantastic at Hayward Gallery, 2022. Photo by Zeinab Batchelor. Courtesy of Hayward Gallery.

In the Hayward Gallery exhibition In the Black Fantastic, Nick Caves powerful, newly commissioned installation takes center stage. The piece, entitled Chain Reaction, features hundreds of black cast-plaster armsshaped from the artists ownjoined together like chains. The hands grip each other as though trying to lift one another up. The installation touches on one of the shows major themes: the legacy of slavery and colonialism.

Curated by Ekow Eshun, the exhibition features works by 11 artists: Nick Cave, Hew Locke, Kara Walker, Lina Iris Viktor, Chris Ofili, Rashaad Newsome, Wangechi Mutu, Sedrick Chisom, Cauleen Smith, Tabita Rezaire, and Ellen Gallagher. This is the U.K.s first major presentation dedicated to the work of Black artists across the diaspora who use spirituality, myth, science fiction, and Afrofuturism to suggest utopian possibilities.

Installation view of works by Rashaad Newsome in In the Black Fantastic at Hayward Gallery, 2022. Photo by Zeinab Batchelor. Courtesy of Hayward Gallery.

The show also reflects challenges in our contemporary world, addressing racial injustice and issues of identity. In the Black Fantastic departs from a Western-centric perspective in order to explore Black autonomy and experience.

Eshun has cleverly divided the exhibition into separate rooms so that each artist exhibits within their own space; this makes it easier for the viewer to appreciate the individual artists, then analyze the cumulative power of the show as a whole.

Textiles feature prominently throughout. Some artists use diamant (jeweled decoration), and Swarovski crystals glitter in the work of Rashaad Newsome. Multimedia pieces alternately feature wood, faux fur, beads, gold leaf, and sequins. These exuberant materials add a sense of vibrant diversity to the show, which also features painting, sculpture, video, mixed-media installation, and photography.

Nick Cave, installation view of Soundsuit, 2010, in In the Black Fantastic at Hayward Gallery, 2022. Photo by Zeinab Batchelor. Courtesy of Hayward Gallery.

Nick Cave, Soundsuit, 2014. Nick Cave. Courtesy of the artist and Jack Shainman Gallery, New York.

In addition to showing Chain Reaction, Nick Cave also exhibits his famously colorful, bejeweled Soundsuits, which he makes with fabrics, embroidery, raffia, sequins, beads, and more. One features a West African masquerade look; it resembles a masked dancer with an elongated neck. Another comprises piles of knitted fabrics. Yet another looks like it hailed from the science-fiction realm, given its similarities to a suit that one might wear into space. Each Soundsuit is wearable and life-size.

Cave began making these costumes 30 years ago in response to the brutal beating of Rodney King by Los Angeles Police Department officers, which sparked the 1992 Los Angeles riots. The artist views the Soundsuits as bodily disguises and forms of armor that offer protection in a racialized society. Cave has also made a new Soundsuit that commemorates the murder of George Floyd by Minneapolis police. Despite their tragic inspirations, the works embrace ambiguity. They conceal the identity, race, and gender of their wearers with exuberant adornment.

Wangechi Mutu, still from The End of eating Everything, 2014. Courtesy of the artist, Gladstone Gallery, and Victoria Miro. Commissioned by the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University.

Wangechi Mutu thinks about the body in a different way. Eshun has posted quotes from famous thinkers around the show, and Suzanne Csaires pairs perfectly with Mutus work: Here are the poet, the painter and the artist presiding over the metamorphoses and the inversions of the world under the sign of hallucination and madness. Throughout her installation, the Kenyan artist depicts the human body in mythical spaces and considers divine femininity.

Her collage The screamer island dreamer, for example, references nguvas, or water women, and a story about a female spirit who wanders along the coast. The spirit appears to be a regular humanuntil she charms people into the sea and drowns them. The piece evokes a surreal, satirical childrens storybook. In the Black Fantastic also features a video by Mutu and additional collages that combine magazine cutouts with natural materials such as shells, horns, and red soil from the artists travels.

Lina Iris Viktor, Eleventh, 2018. Courtesy of the artist and Hayward Gallery.

Hew Locke, Ambassador 1, 2021. Hew Locke. Photo by Anna Arca. Courtesy of the artist and Hayward Gallery.

Throughout his colorful, mythical paintings, Chris Ofili reconsiders a sea spirit from a different tradition: The artist has illustrated a scene from Homers Odyssey, in which Odysseus encounters the island nymph Calypso. Ofili took inspiration from the Saint Lucian poet Derek Walcott, whose poem Omeros used characters from the Odyssey to analyze colonialisms detrimental legacy. Ofilis depictions of unearthly, underwater creatures introduce viewers to a magical version of the high seas.

Liberian British artist Lina Iris Viktor also transports viewers to a different place and time, though her vehicles of choice are bold mixed-media works. Her series of blue, white, and black self-portraits, titled A Haven. A Hell. A Dream Deferred, are powerful. One of them, entitled Eleventh, depicts the artist sitting regally, dressed in beautiful African textiles. Intricate gold lines trace a map, while partial texts that sprawl across the surfacesuch as Tribes dealt in the reportoffer suggestive narratives. Viktor also paints the Libyan Sibyl, a prophetess from ancient Greek mythology whom 18th-century abolitionists considered to be a figurehead who foresaw the terrible fate of enslaved Africans. Viktor questions the role of Western altruism in the Republic of Liberia after the abolition of slavery; a colonial legacy still haunts the country.

Installation view of works by Hew Locke in In the Black Fantastic at Hayward Gallery, 2022. Photo by Rob Harris. Courtesy of Hayward Gallery.

Hew Locke uses sculptures to consider such legacies. His series of pieces, entitled The Ambassadors, resemble the horsemen of the apocalypse with their menacing postures. The artist has richly adorned his approximations of horsemen in fabric, beads, and other jewelry, then surrounded them with decorated skulls. The Ambassadors challenge how we view historical figures: The artist has embellished his four riders with military medals and regalia, which represent the heavy hand of colonialism.

A sense of doom also pervades Sedrick Chisoms dreamlike paintings. They feature characters who look deathly sick, suggesting a post-apocalyptic future in which all people of color have chosen to leave Earth, and the rest of humanity has been afflicted with a fictitious disease called revitiligo, which darkens the skins pigment.

Sedrick Chisom, Medusa Wandered the Wetlands of the Capital Citadel Undisturbed by Two Confederate Drifters Preoccupied by Poisonous Vapors that Stirred in the Night Air, 2021. Sedrick Chisom. Photo by Mark Blower. Courtesy of the artist and Pilar Corrias.

Kara Walker, on the other hand, delves into Americas racist, bloody past throughout her cut-paper animations. Her violent, provocative subject matter will haunt viewers long after they leave the show. Walkers film Prince McVeigh and the Turner Blasphemies (2021) portrays two white supremacist crimes: In 1988, three white men in Texas murdered James Byrd by dragging him to death from behind a pick-up truck, and in 1995, Timothy McVeigh bombed the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City. The projects title references The Turner Diaries by neo-Nazi leader William Luther Pierce, a racist novel that allegedly inspired McVeigh and other white supremacist attacksincluding the recent January 6, 2021, assault on the U.S. Capitol. Like Chisom, Walker confronts the parasitic ideology of whiteness and the othering of Black people.

Rashaad Newsomes work feels more futuristic, though it reflects on todays chaos; Build or Destroy, his film in the show, might remind the viewer of the this is fine meme. The video shows a vogueing, trans CGI character dancing amidst fire and collapsing buildings. Sampling and reconfiguring visuals related to traditional African sculpture, the Black Queer community, and pop culture, Newsome hopes his work will help liberate us from oppressive systems.

Installation view of works by Cauleen Smith in In the Black Fantastic at Hayward Gallery, 2022. Photo by Zeinab Batchelor. Courtesy of Hayward Gallery.

Cauleen Smith uses digital systems to a very different effect. Her immersive installation features a table decorated with small sculptures, a bird, plants, and computer screens that project images of changing natural landscapes and enlarged digital versions of the sculptures onto the gallery walls. The artist has a personal connection to each item on the table. She describes the assortment as an archive of associations, travels, affections, desires, questions, and longings. Smith addresses themes of Afrofuturism, utopian possibilities, and community.

To conclude the exhibition, Ellen Gallaghers fascinating painting Ecstatic Draught of Fishes depicts an underwater realm. The scene takes inspiration from the story of a Black Atlantis known as Drexciya, a place populated by the descendants of the kidnapped, enslaved pregnant women who were thrown overboard on transatlantic ships. The Drexciya myth was created by the eponymous Detroit electronic music duo, who were partly inspired by Paul Gilroys 1993 book The Black Atlantic: Modernity and Double Consciousness. Throughout Gallaghers painting, brown amoeba with pink, orange, and dark purple circles form part of an underwater scene. Silver figures that resemble African sculptures float in the sea.

Altogether, these artists offer new ways of seeing and challenge the idea of race as a social construct. In their own unique ways, they reimagine possibilities for Black people the world over.

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Cast: Cuba Gooding Jr.Horatio SanzRoselyn SnchezVivica A. FoxMaurice Godin

Geners: Comedy

Director: Mort Nathan

Release Date: Oct 01, 2002

Two guys whose love lives are a wreck look forward to finding ladies on the high seas. Unfortunately, they've mistakenly been booked on a gay cruise.

Boat Trip never made it to Netflix, unfortunately. Still, Netflix holds a variety of shows one can watch for subscription plans that costs $9.99 per month for the basic plan, $15.49 monthly for the standard plan, and $19.99 a month for the premium plan.

At the time of writing, Boat Trip is not available to stream on Hulu through the traditional account which starts at $6.99.However, if you have the HBO Max extension on your Hulu account, you can watch additional movies and shoes on Hulu. This type of package costs $14.99 per month.

At the time of writing, Boat Trip is not on Disney+. Disney+ mostly focuses on Disney's own animated films and other works owned and distributed by Disney. The current monthly price for those interested in the streaming platform is $7.99.

You won't find Boat Trip on HBO Max. But if you're still interested in the service, it's $14.99 per month, which gives you full access to the entire vault, and is also ad-free, or $9.99 per month with ads. However, the annual versions for both are cheaper, with the ad-free plan at $150 and the ad-supported plan at $100.

As of now, Boat Trip is not available to watch for free on Amazon Prime Video. You can still buy or rent other movies through their service.

Peacock is a relatively new platform with many exclusives and classics, but Boat Trip isn't one of them as of the time of writing.

Boat Trip is not on Paramount Plus. Paramount Plus has two subscription options: the basic version ad-supported Paramount+ Essential service costs $4.99 per month, and an ad-free premium plan for $9.99 per month.

Boat Trip isn't on Apple TV+ at the moment, sorry! In the meantime, you can watch top-rated shows like Ted Lasso on Apple TV with a subscription cost of $4.99 a month.

No dice. Sadly, Boat Trip hasn't made its way onto the Chili streaming service yet.

Boat Trip is not available to stream now.

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A golden snail with a foot clad in iron scales seems like a creature from science fiction. But in a few remote spots of the Indian Ocean these snails are very real.

It looks like an armoured knight crawling around on the deep-sea floor, says Julia Sigwart, a biologist at Frankfurts Senckenberg Research Institute and one of the only people to have seen a living scaly-foot snail (Chrysomallon squamiferum), also known as a sea pangolin.

The snails habitat is extreme. They live several miles below the ocean surface on searing hydrothermal vents, which are bathed in toxic chemicals and can reach temperatures of more than 300C (572F).

The ocean is one of the worlds last truly wild spaces. It teems with fascinating species that sometimes seems to border on the absurd, from fish that look up through transparent heads to golden snails with iron armour. We know more about deep space than deep oceans, and science is only beginning to scratch the surface of the rich variety of life in the depths.

As mining companies push to industrialise the sea floor and global leaders continue to squabble over how to protect the high seas, a new Guardian Seascape series will profile some of the most recently discovered weird, wonderful, majestic, ridiculous, hardcore and mind-blowing creatures. They reveal how much there is still to learn about the least known environment on Earth and how much there is to protect.

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The snails entire bodies and lifestyles revolve around bacteria growing inside a special pouch in their throat, which convert chemicals pouring out of the vents into energy and thereby provide all the snails food.

To keep their microbes well fed, scaly-foot snails evolved enormous gills to absorb oxygen and chemicals from seawater, then deliver it by way of their bloodstream and a hugely capacious heart. A human heart of equivalent proportions would be the size of our heads.

In 2019, scientists worked out that the scales on the snails foot are not to protect against predatory attack but to avert a toxic threat that comes from within. The bacteria stashed in a scaly-foot snails throat release sulphur as a waste product, which is deadly to snails (its a common active ingredient in slug and snail-killing pellets).

The internal structure of their scales acts as tiny exhaust pipes, drawing the dangerous sulphur away from the snails soft tissues and depositing it as a harmless iron-based compound on the outside.

Even though they evolved many strange adaptations to survive on vents, scaly-foot snails did not bank on humans showing an interest in their habitat. All three sites where they live an area of less than 0.025 sq km (0.01 sq miles), which together would fit inside St Peters Square in Vatican City are potential targets for deep-sea mining.

Mining firms are after the gold, silver and other precious or rare metals deposited in the rocky walls of the black smoker chimneys. If their tiny areas of habitat are damaged or destroyed, the scaly-foot snails would soon be gone.

Thats why Sigwart and her team set about assessing the status of these rare animals and eventually had the scaly-foot snail added to the International Union for the Conservation of Natures red list as an endangered species.

Its an incredibly powerful communication tool, she says. When you say a species is endangered, everyone in the world understands that.

The scaly-foot snail was the first species in the world to be listed as threatened because of deep-sea mining but there are now many deep-sea molluscs that experts have assessed and added to the global endangered list.

Out of 184 endemic species that only live on vents, from giant clams to a fuzzy snail named after Joe Strummer from the Clash, only 25 are not considered to be at risk of extinction.

These species remain relatively secure, Sigwart explains, because they live on vent fields where there is an explicit ban on any future development of deep-sea mining. This includes marine protected areas in territorial waters of Canada and around the Azores.

Most of the other species live on hydrothermal vents out in the high seas, which are beyond territorial limits and therefore less protected and more open to mining exploration.

These are the red-list assessments that reflect the status and the risk to the whole species and its potential to actually go extinct and for us to lose it completely, says Sigwart, and nobody wants that.

To Sigwart, these unusual molluscs brilliantly illustrate how evolution is just about being good enough to get by. It shows us the strange and twisted paths that life can take in order to adapt and survive, she says.

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Greenwich Theatre presents a madcap production of Treasure Island, by Le Navet Bete and John Nicholson, directed by James Haddrell.

David Haller, Elliott Bornemann, Lauren Drennan and Helen Ramsay are set to bring 30 or more characters to life this summer when the theatres outrageously comedic version of Robert Louis Stevensons classic adventure story takes to the stage.

Orphaned cabin boy Jim Hawkins (Haller), left in the careless care of Aunt Agnes, is serving ale in the Admiral Benbow before being taken under the wing of Long John Silver (Drennan). He happily embarks on what he expects to be an exciting sea voyage in search of treasure, but thanks to a crew of pirates, a strangely familiar Captain Birdseye (Ramsay) and the wildly eccentric castaway Ben Gunn (Bornemann), nothing ends up being quite as it seems.

This riotously chaotic adaptation of Robert Louis Stevensons beloved tale of pirates and buried treasure is full of physical comedy, daft jokes and thrilling adventure, with Jim setting sail on the high seas with Captain Birdseye, Blue Peter, Long-John Silver and the parrot Alexa

The shows director James Haddrell says: This year weve been lucky enough to secure a fantastic script from Le Navet Bete, a brilliant comic theatre company, so this will be unlike any production of Treasure Island that our audiences have seen before. Fans of the Greenwich pantomime will recognise a lot of the comedy style, but theres much more besides.

Haller is thrilled to be treading the boards (a.k.a. running around the stage like a madman) at Greenwich Theatre once again after appearing in their 2021 summer family production, Pinocchio. Drennan is also no stranger to the Greenwich Theatre stage; currently performing alongside Ramsay, whos making her professional debut at Greenwich Theatre in An Intervention. The cast is completed by Bornemann who has worked extensively in theatre for young audiences, making this production set to be a family favourite.

Treasure Islandfollows last years acclaimed production ofPinocchioin establishing the Greenwich Theatre summer show as a popular fixture in the boroughs cultural calendar.

Greenwich Theatre, Crooms /hill, SE10 8ES from Friday 19 August-Sunday 4 September. Performances:Tuesday-Sunday (not 21 Aug);Tue-Thu 11am & 3pm;Fri-Sat 2pm & 6pm;Sun 1pm & 5pm.Admission: Adult 25, Concession 20, Child 12.50, Friend 12.50

Website: greenwichtheatre.org.uk

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