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Mercedes-Benz •

Mercedes-Benz Guide to Electric Vehicles

With different types of electric cars and a broad range of models to choose from, it can be difficult to know which one is right for you. With the EQ Ready app, drive as normal in your current car and the app will track your daily routes and analyse your driving behaviour so you can see whether an electric car would suit your lifestyle. It also shows you where to find your nearest charging stations and how much charge you would need for each journey.
Intellects Digest •

Kendrick Lamar and Bob Dylan: The Lyrical Poets —

“I live like a poet and I’ll die like a poet”, stated Bob Dylan in one of his most famous quotes in the early 1960s. When Dylan burst onto the music scene, he changed the landscape of popular music forever, with his poetic, lyrical, fantastical stream of consciousness writing that owed in part to his introduction to the prose of the beat generation and the visceral stylings of the enfant terrible of French poetry himself, Arthur Rimbaud. This work was a world away from the vapid pop lyrics of th
Consequence •

10 Albums Counting Crows' Adam Duritz Thinks Every Music Fan Should Own

Crate Digging is a recurring feature in which we take a deep dive into a genre and turn up several albums all music fans should know about. In this special edition, Adam Duritz of Counting Crows shares his picks.

Counting Crows frontman Adam Duritz spends much of his time devouring new music. “There’s this record store in London that Immer [Counting Crows guitarist David Immerglück] and I would visit every time we were on tour in England,” he recalls to Consequence over Zoom. “We would spend on
Academic publishing. •

Getting Into the Outside. Representations of Class and Homosexuality in Gus Van Sant's My Own Private Idaho.

This intriguing academic study explores the representations of class and homosexuality with Gus Van Sant’s 1991 cult classic, My Own Private Idaho. Drawing on the arguments of film academics such as Richard Dyer and Harry Benshoff, Getting Into the Outside provides a unique insight into the film’s place within the New Queer Cinema Movement and the exploration of human sexuality.
In addition to this, drawing on social studies by such experts as Stephanie Coontz, the work explores the strong class divisions depicted within the film and questions the social conscience and seismic political changes that the film explores, questioning whether My Own Private Idaho was really a ground breaking film.
A fascinating insight for both film theorists and film fans alike, Getting Into the Outside, provides a fresh insight into one of the most definitive cinema experiences of the 1990s.