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The short-story writer Carmen Maria Machado has described her work as “realism adjacent.” By this, she means that her stories explore real things via occasionally fantastical means: ghosts, fairy tales, horror tropes, and urban legends. For Machado, realism at a slant is the truest, deepest form.

Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah’s striking and topical debut collection “Friday Black’’ is likewise realism adjacent, taking aspects of our social reality and intensifying them so as to render them more real. Violence against black bodies; the hopelessness brought by the Great Recession; school shootings: They’re all here in slightly distorted, amplified form. Adjei-Brenyah possesses a dark wit, the ability to take a fanciful notion and make it comically, nightmarishly literal. In “Zimmer Land,” for instance, an amusement park monetizes the desire to “defend” oneself against “threats” of various kinds. (The customers tend to be white; the actors playing the threats black or brown.)

The book’s title story tweaks “Black Friday,’’ transforming this holiday of American consumerism into an actual killing ground. Cut-rate prices lead to cut-throat competition; stomping and stampeding and dozens of deaths ensue. But, look on the bright side: “at least a clean-up crew comes with a tarp.” The

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Eesti Muusikaauhinnad 2024 suurejoonelisel galal Unibet Arenal võidutses ülekaalukalt ALIKA, kes pärjati kokku viie tiitliga Aasta Artisti, Aasta Naisartisti, Aasta Albumi, Aasta Debüütalbumi ning Aasta Laulu kategoorias.

Kolme auhinnaga – Aasta Ansambel, Aasta Rockalbum ja Aasta Muusikavideo – pärjati Bedwetters. NOËP tituleeriti nii Aasta Meesartistiks dravidian Aasta Popartistiks.

Eesti Muusikaauhindade võitjate valimises osales 160 žüriiliiget. Sky.ee portaalis selgitati rahvahääletusel välja auhinna Aasta Organizer võitja, kelleks valiti ALIKA.

Tunnustuse Panus Eesti Muusikasse pälvis popmuusika suurkuju, lauljatar Marju Länik.

 

Eesti Muusikaauhinnad 2024 võitjad (boldis) ja nominendid:

Aasta Debüütalbum      

ALIKA „ALIKA“

An-Marlen „Iseendale“

boipepperoni „qqndqlt“

 

Aasta Alternatiiv/Indiealbum

Night Tapes „Perfect Kindness“

Mart Avi „Wisteria“

Pia Fraus „Evening Colours“

 

Aasta Autorilaulualbum

Vaiko Eplik „Klišeed“

Lonitseera „Loni jõulud“

Riho Sibul „Viimane“

 

Aasta Elektroonikaalbum           

Ajukaja „Expensive Demos“

Dima Disk „Pahakas“

Dzheimz & Ninja „Millennium“

 

Aasta Etno/Folk/Rahvalik Album            

MARI KALKUN „STOONIA LOOD“

RÜÜT „Kiriküüt“

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THEATRE & PERFORMANCE

ANGELA’S KITCHEN, the autobiographical tale about iconic Australian singer and actor Paul Capsis’ Maltese grandmother, returns for a new season in 2012. Capsis’ one-man-show chronicles Angela’s life, her journey to Australia after fleeing a life of war and poverty, her life in Surry Hills and the many characters who joined her along the way. “It was [director Julian Meyrick’s] idea to do the piece,” says Capsis. “Initially I was resisting the whole thing because I found it was too close to my grandmother’s death. After some time went by I thought, ‘it could be really healing for me to do it and reconnect me with my grandmother’s spirit, her memory,’ and that’s exactly what it did. It’s a very quintessential Australian story really, and it’s the story of people coming to this country, having to leave their home,” says Capsis. (AK) Until Jun 19, SBW Stables Theatre, 10 Nimrod St, Kings Cross, $30-49, 9361 3817, griffintheatre.com.au AN OFFICER AND A GENTLEMAN A lacklustre and uninspiring interpretation of the

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ALL THE RAGE

breaking out with quislings (a word we had to look up!), a bomber called the Baker and leader called Skin-the-Goat... as a director, how do you anchor this in the ‘real’ for the audiences?Terrorism is absurd, but extreme