Canceled concerts, postponed shows and impossible cultural outings? How to deal with when you have to limit your outings “to the bare minimum” for several weeks due to the coronavirus pandemic? Don't panic, 20 Minutes gives you daily cultural recommendations that you can enjoy while staying at home.
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Friday March 13
A free press kiosk at home
While the first round of municipal elections is maintained this Sunday and given the strengthening of sanitary measures linked to the coronavirus, it is more important than ever to stay well informed. You no longer take public transport and no longer have the possibility of picking up your favorite daily newspaper? Do not panic, 20 Minutes is available in PDF and you can obviously follow the news in real time on our site. To allow French people to get information from home, the Cafeyn platform offers free access to more than 1,600 press titles for a month. To access it, simply activate the jelisjevote code on the dedicated page until Monday, March 16. And there you have a press kiosk at home!
A novel by SF disaster Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The confinement has given the Chinese a taste for reading again. Book sales are therefore up 60% on Alibaba's Tmall platform for the week starting February 10 compared to the previous week, according to Les Echos. The Poisoned Belt , catastrophe science fiction novel published in 1913, allows Sir Arthur Conan Doyle to reconnect with his famous heroes of the Lost World : Professor Challenger, eminent milk soup scientist, the doubtful Summerlee, the phlegmatic Roxton and the impetuous Malone. In The Poisoned Belt , they are confronted with a mysterious gas which threatens to destroy the entire planet ... Our friends are ready to observe, in a room confined with oxygen cylinders, in the agony of humanity. Will they manage to survive, and when is it from the rest of humanity? If this is not the best fiction of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and even if the style has aged a bit, the adventures of Professor Challenger are exciting, and available for free and legally. Also suitable for young readers from the age of 12!
Iggy Pop, free like never
A concert canceled or postponed, enjoy an evening with Iggy Pop, free as never before! The godfather of punk released his eighteenth opus in August, an album with jazzy influences, called Free , a thousand miles from his predecessors. An experimental UFO he played at the Gaîté Lyrique as part of the Arte Concert Festival. A concert in a particularly intimate atmosphere, which has very little to do with its performances in stadiums and festivals where it can generally be seen, available for streaming until April 11 on Arte Concert. Connect to the baritone voice of the Iguana, hover over songs that flirt with ambient music. In short, disconnect from all this anxiety-provoking news.
"Pennyworth", to wait before the next James Bond
The release of the next James Bond is postponed, check out Pennyworth to wait! Available on Amazon Prime Video, which offers a month of free trial, this series, a prequel to the youth of the Batman butler and his emerging relationship with the superhero's parents, Thomas Wayne and Martha Kane, takes place in 1960s London. , as glamorous as dark and violent. Alfred Pennyworth will find himself involved in a series of adventures involving spies, mysterious secret societies wanting to reshape Great Britain, with or without the support of his Majesty, eccentric villains such as Bet Sykes (Paloma Faith), small dapper woman who oozes the threat or Lord Hardwood and his inescapable cloak (Jason Flemying). Some borrowings well felt to James Bond for a royal treat to change your mind!
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