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The Review Geek
20 hours ago
- Entertainment
- The Review Geek
Lazarus Episode 13 Preview: Release Date, Time & Where To Watch
Lazarus Lazarus takes place in the utopian year of 2052. A genius neuroscientist by the name of Dr. Skinner has discovered a miracle analgesic drug known as Hapna, completely relieving the user of any pain. After inexplicably disappearing, we cut forward three years later, where Dr Skinner resurfaces to the public in an online video. He announce that the drug has a three-year half-life and soon everyone who has taken it will die. As a result of this, a task force of five agents is assembled to locate Skinner and create a vaccine. Its name? Lazarus. If you've been following this anime, you may be curious to find out when the next episode will be released. Well, wonder no more! Here is everything you need to know about episode 13 of Lazarus, including the release date, time, and where you can watch this. Where Can I Watch Lazarus? Lazarus is airing in Japan on TXN (TV Tokyo) and Animax. It is also available to stream on Adultswim and HBO Max for those in the US and other territories, along with airing for free on Channel 4 for those in the UK! Lazarus Episode 13 Release Date Lazarus Episode 13 will debut on Sunday 28th June at approximately 9pm (ET)/ 12am (ET) and 5am (GMT). Episodes will then drop every week at the same time each week. Of course, it's really dependent on how quickly the platform uploads new episodes. Expect this to be pretty close to the release time though. Lazarus is airing in the West with a pretty strange licencing agreement here. Warner Bros. Discovery have decided that the series will first premiere in English on Adult Swim, with a next-day upload on Max. Then, the Japanese with English subtitle version of the anime will debut in the United States on Adult Swim and Max 30 days after the English-language premiere. It's likely the same thing will occur in the UK too. How Many Episodes Will Lazarus Have? It has been announced that Lazarus will have 13 episodes in total, with one episode releasing a week. With all of that in mind, we're now onto the finale for this one! Is There A Trailer For Lazarus? Yes! You can find a trailer for Lazarus below. What do you hope to see as the series progresses? What's been your favorite moment of Lazarus so far? Let us know in the comments below!
AU Financial Review
a day ago
- Business
- AU Financial Review
Volatility drives institutional investor shift to boutique brokers
This shift has left many clients under serviced. Independent brokers are stepping into the space once occupied by these global players, differentiating themselves through personalisation and speed. 'Unlike at some of the larger institutions, independent prime brokerage offerings focus on providing a seamless and tailored client experience, irrespective of whether they have $1 million or $100 million,' says Klynhout. 'Personalised service ensures asset managers can remain agile and responsive to market conditions whilst knowing they're going to be supported through the decisions they make.' The evolving role of boutique firms is not just a matter of scale, but of scope. Lazarus reports a growing range of use cases: family offices hedging structured investments, corporates managing treasury exposures, and broker-dealers running internal portfolios. Niche strategies are gaining traction across Asia, the Middle East and Europe. Tailored model Rather than offering a one-size-fits-all service, boutique brokers are tailoring models to client strategy. 'The nature and importance of a prime brokerage relationship can have significant ramifications on the success of a portfolio,' Klynhout says. 'A bespoke model does not take this for granted and instead prioritises client success.' Australia is becoming a strategic base for this kind of model. Lazarus' Sydney headquarters puts it in a strong position to service emerging financial centres in Asia and the Middle East during local hours. Unlike larger institutions that focus on balance sheet returns, firms like Lazarus position their value around global access and consistent service for institutional portfolios of $1 million to $500 million. The client base itself is also broadening. 'The prime brokerage client base has grown beyond traditional hedge funds,' Klynhout says. 'Lazarus is working with family offices, broker-dealers and emerging managers looking for cost-efficient, high-quality, and swift support.' What began as a response to disruption is now evolving into a broader realignment. For many institutional investors, the old default is no longer the default. The future of prime brokerage may not belong to the biggest – but to the most adaptable. Global casualties That shift is also playing out globally. Japanese investment bank Nomura, one of the biggest casualties of the Archegos collapse, is now tentatively re-entering parts of the prime brokerage space it abandoned in 2021. The bank lost $2.9 billion when Archegos imploded and is only now rebuilding its prime business in the US and Europe under new leadership. Executives hope to triple revenues from the division, but insiders say the renewed push is cautious and tightly risk-controlled. Industry-wide revenues from prime brokerage hit a record $27 billion in 2024, driven by multi-strategy hedge funds and high equities prices. But that growth has brought heightened scrutiny. Regulators in the UK and US are reviewing how banks manage risk across their prime units, citing concerns over market concentration and oversight—risks that many independent providers are structured to mitigate. Nomura, for its part, says it has 'put Archegos behind us', but its gradual re-entry underscores how far the bulge brackets have pulled back. With banks now more selective, institutional investors are increasingly turning to agile, independent brokers who can move faster and serve them better. Stepping into the gap Market observers note that nonbank providers, like the boutique prime brokers gaining ground in Australia, are stepping into roles once dominated by global banks. McKinsey's Global Private Markets Report 2025 highlights how institutional investors are drawn to flexible, specialised strategies amid volatility, particularly in private debt. 'In uncertain market conditions, the security derived from debt's privileged position in the capital structure has appealed to institutional investors,' the report says. These nonbank entities offer integrated services such as prime brokerage and custody, aligning with investors' need for agility and personalised risk management. 'The rapid run-up in global interest rates from 2022 to 2023 (an increase of more than 500 basis points in the United States) shook private equity to the core,' McKinsey says, citing inflation and geopolitical risk as ongoing pressures. Boutique prime brokers are capitalising on that turbulence, helping institutional clients execute niche strategies with precision and speed.
San Francisco Chronicle
4 days ago
- Entertainment
- San Francisco Chronicle
San Francisco Symphony presents ‘Blackstar Symphony,' Bowie's final masterpiece reimagined
When David Bowie released 'Blackstar' on Jan. 8, 2016, his 69th birthday, it was instantly hailed as a bold genre-defying achievement for the rock 'n' roll legend. Infused with experimental jazz, poetic lyrics and an emotional bareness, it became one of the most critically acclaimed albums of his career. Then just two days later, Bowie died of liver cancer, which he had secretly been battling for 18 months. His death suddenly turned 'Blackstar' into a swan song, lending tracks like 'Lazarus' — a reference to the biblical figure resurrected by Jesus — added poignancy. John Cameron Mitchell, star and creator of the Bowie-referencing hit rock musical 'Hedwig and the Angry Inch,' called the album Bowie's 'mausoleum.' 'There's a gorgeousness, but there's a darkness,' said Mitchell. 'When he gets emotional, you feel like it's raw sentiment. It's kind of shocking when it comes from him because he's so unsentimental.' While some of the album's songs were incorporated into Bowie's 2015 off-Broadway musical 'Lazarus,' starring Michael C. Hall, Bowie never had a chance to perform the 'Blackstar' material live. But nearly a decade later, the album has found a life onstage. Coming to the San Francisco Symphony on Thursday-Friday, June 26-27, 'Blackstar Symphony' transforms Bowie's final album into a live performance by a 65-piece orchestra and members of the original 'Blackstar' band. In addition to the seven tracks on 'Blackstar,' the evening — timed to LGBTQ Pride weekend — will also include songs from the queer cultural icon's catalog like 'Space Oddity,' 'Life on Mars,' 'Heroes' and 'Life on Mars?' Mitchell, Bowie's longtime bassist and singer Gail Ann Dorsey and singer-songwriter David Poe take Bowie's place on lead vocals. 'I know this project is something that he would have liked,' said Dorsey, who began working with Bowie in 1995 during his Outside Tour. 'When I first heard the orchestrations, I could just see him smiling.' 'Blackstar Symphony,' which premiered at the Charlotte International Arts Festival in 2022, was conceived by Santa Clara-born musician and bandleader Donny McCaslin, who played saxophone on 'Blackstar.' (He noted the band working on the album knew Bowie was in treatment for cancer, 'but that was the extent of it.') After Bowie died, McCaslin said the band had offers to perform over the years, but declined out of respect. It wasn't until a conversation with conductor Jules Buckley that he began to imagine 'Blackstar' with a full orchestra. 'It was really the idea of the record being like the DNA and the blueprint for the orchestra project, but that the orchestra is really intentionally included in the writing,' said McCaslin, who serves as the artistic director of 'Blackstar Symphony,' with the work orchestrated by Buckley, orchestra leader and composer Maria Schneider, and longtime Bowie producer Tony Visconti, among others. 'When it's at its zenith, you hear the orchestra, the band and the singers all commingling.' Nearly everyone McCaslin tapped for 'Blackstar Symphony' has deep connections to Bowie. Dorsey, for instance, performed on his albums 'Earthling' (1997), 'Heathen' (2002), 'Reality' (2003) and 'The Next Day' (2013). She also famously sang Freddie Mercury's part on the duet 'Under Pressure' with Bowie on tour. Though she's collaborated with Boy George, the Indigo Girls, Ani DiFranco and Lenny Kravitz, among other musicians, Dorsey said nothing in her career compares to her two-decade partnership with Bowie. Working with Bowie, she said, was like 'going to school, in the best possible way.' In her years touring with him, Dorsey also recalled that Bowie had a specific ritual on his days off: 'If there was a historic bookstore — something that wasn't just a Barnes & Noble — we would go.' 'Every time I came to San Francisco with David, we went to City Lights,' Dorsey added, referring to the storied shop in North Beach. For Mitchell, his first memory of Bowie was seeing him on television in Scotland singing 'Jean Genie' on the BBC show 'Top of the Pops' in the early 1970s 'It was very intense and scary,' Mitchell recalled. 'He was so masculine and feminine and lizard-like and everything all at once without any winks or jokes. Some of the other glam (rock) people were kind of like, 'I'm in makeup, but I'm a straight guy.' And this was like, 'No, I'm an alien.'' Years later, after the 2001 release of the film adaptation of 'Hedwig,' Mitchell said Bowie asked him if he was interested in adapting his 1972 concept album 'Ziggy Stardust' into a stage show. 'But I was just burned out on rock 'n' roll,' Mitchell said. 'I do regret not looking into that now because, obviously, it's too late.' For some Bowie fans, 'Blackstar' remains a difficult album to revisit as it's so closely tied to the artist's death. McCaslin admits it was true for him for several years. But now that time has passed, he believes audiences are ready to engage with the music again in a new light. 'There's a real attention to honoring the spirit that he led with when we do this, a humility that we approach this with and a deep and abiding love for him,' said McCaslin. But 'I think he would have been into this direction, where we try to create a new piece of art with 'Blackstar.''
Sky News AU
14-06-2025
- Business
- Sky News AU
Pink Batts disaster invoked over Albanese government's $2.3 billion solar batteries installation scheme
Labor's $2.3 billion bid to cut the price of solar battery installation has sparked fears of another disastrous situation like the Rudd government's Pink Batts scheme where four men died doing installation work. Join to watch the full interview on Business Weekend at 11am (AEST). The Albanese government claims it will cut the price of battery installation by 30 per cent through its major rebate geared at bolstering the nation's renewables shift. It has rekindled memories of Labor's Pink Batts scheme under former prime minister Kevin Rudd's Home Energy Efficiency Program where young, inexperienced installers were not protected and died on the job. A Royal Commission found the deaths of the young men would not have happened if the scheme was properly designed and implemented. Industrias Services Group CEO Daniel Lazarus has invoked the horror scheme just weeks ahead of Labor rolling out the new rebates. 'We've audited thousands and thousands of systems and batteries across the country over the last ... 12 months and I've seen a material amount of these batteries and solar systems, which are either substandard or a small percentage of being unsafe,' Mr Lazarus said on Sky News' Business Weekend. 'Even that small percentage of unsafe systems is big enough to create real worries about what the scheme might do with the tidal wave of what's going to happen around all these installs.' He noted the design of the installation program was currently 'sound' and stressed that he was confident around industry standards, but warned Aussies would take advantage of the huge swath of rebates. 'The problem is with this huge influx of rebate schemes,' Mr Lazarus said. 'What will happen with the inevitable influx that will come within the industry to take advantage and what are they going to do to try and maximise the rebate that they obtain? 'How will they take advantage or at least avoid dodging a lot of these elements that are required to receive the rebate, that being standards?' Despite protocols and standards that arose since the Royal Commission into the Pink Batts scheme, there remains a lack of key inspection mandates across the country, Mr Lazarus cautioned. 'What we're really advocating to industry is around how do you make it such that either all systems, or at least the majority of systems, installed by every installer that's taking advantage of this rebate scheme, is getting physically inspected,' he said. The rebates under the Pink Batts scheme led to the number of businesses in the installation sector rising from 200 to more than 8000. It was originally meant to run for five years but finished after just one year and about 30 per cent of inspected installations in 2010 were found to have faulty craftsmanship or to be unsafe. Mr Lazarus said while there were a few fatalities, alongside less than 100 fires, it would only take a small number of incidents to destroy the whole scheme. 'The last thing that I want to see is a scheme like this which is meant for specific homeowners and the distribution of energy to be called off early,' he said. Labor said it expects to deliver more than one million batteries under its scheme.
Sydney Morning Herald
13-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Sydney Morning Herald
With The Project and Neighbours going, is Australian TV all Sydney all the time?
With apologies to Oscar Wilde, to lose one television program is a misfortune, but to lose two in a week borders on calamity. But that's precisely what happened over the course of just a few days as first The Project and then Q+A were given the axe by their respective broadcasters, Ten and the ABC. For Melbourne, the news strikes particularly hard. The Project, which is made by Rove McManus' production company Roving Enterprises, is based there, and the show is filmed in the Ten studios in South Yarra. Ten has not confirmed how many jobs will be lost, but reports suggest between 80 and 100 could be 'affected' (insiders suggest the FTE number is closer to 60). Production of Q+A, meanwhile, is split between Sydney and Melbourne, with occasional forays to other locations. The ABC has not revealed if any jobs will go, but some attrition seems likely. Loading Add to the mix the imminent demise of Neighbours – which will, barring a second Lazarus act, film its final episode next month – and the news for Melbourne's screen sector is grim. It's not just the job losses that hurt. There's a blow to the pride of a city that in 1956 welcomed Australia to television, and once hosted the mighty Crawford Productions, from whose engine room emerged Homicide, Division 4, Matlock Police, Cop Shop, The Sullivans, Flying Doctors and many more. The stamp 'made in Melbourne' used to be a guarantee of a boost to viewership in the southern capital, though that parochialism was not especially reciprocated; 'made in Sydney' didn't seem to have as much impact on a show's ratings. Yet that is where the bulk of screen content in Australia actually originates. Screen Australia's annual drama report records that in 2023-24, 47 per cent of the $1.7 billion spent on scripted content (including features and overseas productions) was incurred in NSW, 19 per cent in Victoria and 18 per cent in Queensland, with the other states scrapping for the remains. Those figures are, however, skewed by the fact that NSW and Queensland typically score the lion's share of big-budget film production from Hollywood. Loading Of course, there's a lot of content made for television that isn't scripted – sport, news and current affairs, reality, light entertainment. Of the $1.84 billion spent on programming by Seven, Nine and Ten in 2023-24, only about $50 million went to drama, according to a recent report by the ACMA (that figure represents the networks' contributions; the actual budgets are considerably higher). They spent about 11 times that much on each of sport and light entertainment, and roughly eight times as much on news and current affairs ($407 million), as on drama. As for where that content is actually made, there is a freighting towards Sydney, though it's not as clear-cut as you might imagine. Sport is made around the country, though obviously there's more footy content out of Melbourne and more rugby league out of Sydney. News is city-based, though the national bulletins come out of Sydney. In the morning slots, the ABC's News Breakfast is Melbourne-based, while Seven's Sunrise and Nine's Today are both shot in Sydney (Ten runs a repeat of Deal or No Deal at 8.30am, which is made in Melbourne). In the lead-in to the all-important evening bulletin, Ten has Neighbours (Melbourne), Seven has The Chase (Sydney) and Nine has Tipping Point (Melbourne). After the news, Nine's A Current Affair is Sydney-based, Ten's The Project is (or was) Melbourne, Seven's Home and Away is Sydney, as is the ABC's 7.30. Loading The primetime offerings are more dispersed. Ten's long-running MasterChef Australia is made in Melbourne (its set was also used last year for the American version of the show), Seven's Farmer Wants a Wife is filmed around the country, Nine's Lego Masters is a Sydney shoot (it used to be made in Melbourne), while The Block is a Melbourne program (though four of its 20 seasons were shot in Sydney). Nine's Married at First Sight comes out of Sydney, as do Dancing with the Stars, First Dates, Australian Idol and The Voice (all Seven). Ten's comedy offerings Have You Been Paying Attention?, The Cheap Seats and Sam Pang Tonight are all Melbourne-made, but its Talkin' 'Bout Your Gen comes from Sydney. Across the networks, certain patterns emerge. Nine and Ten each have a fairly even split of programming from Sydney and Melbourne, while Seven leans more heavily on Sydney, with the bulk of its Melbourne programming being AFL-focused. Seven also takes more content from Brisbane, Perth (home of Kerry Stokes) and Adelaide than do the other two, which has often helped its ratings in those markets. Loading SBS has a strong Sydney bias, though a lot of the filming for its shows is done in the regions and other cities. The ABC declined to share information about where its programs are made, saying in a statement only that it was 'planning to transmit close to 550 hours' of non-news content this year, across nearly 100 programs 'produced across every state and territory'. In streaming, Netflix has recently made more content in Victoria (Eddie's Lil Homies, Apple Cider Vinegar, part of The Survivors, Son of a Donkey) and Queensland (Love Is in the Air, Boy Swallows Universe) than NSW (Heartbreak High). Its Territory was shot in the Northern Territory and South Australia. Of the more than 40 originals Stan has announced or broadcast since the start of last year, about a third are Sydney- or NSW-based, a quarter are Melbourne- or Victoria-based, five were shot in WA, three in Queensland and the rest in various locations, including overseas. Disney's local productions have been spread around the country: The Artful Dodger in Sydney, The Clearing in Melbourne, The Last Days of the Space Age in Perth. More than half of Amazon Prime Video's recent slate has come from Sydney or regional NSW, and just one sports doc (Kick Like Tayla) hails from Victoria. But its Lost Flowers of Alice Hart, Top End Bub and Deadloch (after a first season in Tasmania) all showcase the NT. There's little question, in other words, that Sydney is home to the lion's share of production in TV and streaming, across all formats. But despite the loss of The Project and Neighbours, Melbourne remains a vital part of the sector. And with Brisbane and the Gold Coast nipping away, and a new Perth studio set to come online next year (bolstered by the country's most generous location incentives), you can guarantee the competition to get a piece of the lights, cameras and action is only going to get a lot fiercer.
