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After enduring the crushing sorrow of loss and grief, The Darling Fire return with their sophomore release. “Distortions” is a dark and pensive journey in ten compositions that transcends both beauty and pain, seamlessly combining elements of shoegaze, post-hardcore, and metal. Ghostly female vocals float above a pounding wall of sound, sewn together with vast atmospheric waves. Bleak, somber, and enchanting.

Most will find “Distortions” to be a significant departure from their previous LP “Dark Celebration” as this recording is much more abrasive, gloomy, and brooding—more metal influenced than indie. The band felt that this new aggressive sound more accurately portrayed the sadness, rage, and pain they felt and that it seamlessly balanced with the hypnotizing softness of Jolie’s vocals. The outcome was an amalgamation of something beautiful, austere, and cathartic. It combines the haunting chills of My Bloody Valentine and the heaviness of Deftones. “It felt like a natural evolution for us to go in this direction—to create more movement…” says Jolie Lindholm, allowing the band to feel unconstrained while writing this album without having to force these songs to adhere to one genre or sound.

The vast collective experience of each member of The Darling Fire is exceptional by any measure. Members previously played with: Shai Hulud, Further Seems Forever, The Rocking Horse Winner, As Friends Rust, and Strongarm. An impressive collaboration that was only strengthened by working with Producer Jay Maas (Defeater, Title Fight, Bane) in the studio. The outcome is an impressive and ambitious album that will resonate with listeners of all underground music.

“I’ve had very specific dreams and nightmares throughout my life that I still remember vividly. A dream can blur the line between what is and isn’t real. At times, we may wake from a good dream and want to fall back into it; or we tell ourselves to wake from a nightmare, only to realize what’s happening on this plane is stranger than the one we just left.”

"Aching shoegaze prettiness and ethereal textures with stomping alt-metal guitars that have the thrust of bands like Deftones and Hum. Dark and heavy gigantic swells that build to epic showings of metallic might and melodic rock efficiency, fusing together the urgency of post-hardcore with the grandiosity of more patient, brooding and bigger-sounding genres." - REVOLVER

“This new LP dives into heavy shoegaze and sludge metal, with hints of Hum, Failure, Deftones, Jesu, and other lumbering riffers, as Jolie tops things off with a soaring, celestial wail.” – BROOKLYN VEGAN

The Darling Fire: Jolie Lindholm, Jeronimo Gomez, and Mike Carney. Photo by:  Miranda Nathanson

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• September 23, 2022 Setlist

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Exclusive: The Darling Fire (Dashboard Confessional, Shai Hulud) Are Here For The Bummer

Alt-rock supergroup The Darling Fire are here to make Debbie Downers feel less alone.

Speaking to The Darling Fire drummer Steven Kleisath, one can’t help but note the dichotomy between his attitude and the band's music. On the one hand, the Floridian quintet’s songs are loaded with dreamy fuzz, haunting riffs, and introspective lyrics about trying to find your way in the world. Steven, on the other, is crackling with enthusiasm when he speaks about the project, to the point where you can almost hear the smile on his face over the phone.

“It’s a completely different direction,” rants Steven. “It’s what’s coming out of us now over a rendition of our group's past. We do want our old fans to know what we’re doing now, but also to understand that it’s something entirely new."

Given the Darling Fire’s collective pedigree, trying to do something new might be their only option. The band features members of acts including Dashboard Confessional , Shai Hulud , As Friends Rust , The Rocking Horse Winner, and Slap Of Reality; attempting to combine those bands' diverse sounds would be an exercise in confusion. Instead, on their debut album Dark Celebration, the Darling Fire goes for a brooding but uplifting sound that combines the shadowier moments of acts like The Smashing Pumpkins and Asobi Seksu with the chuggy momentum of Bush and the Breeders. The result is mysterious, inspiring...and pretty at odds with Steven’s barely-contained excitement.

“As far as what [my bandmates] were capable of, I thought they were all relevant,” says Steven, “and when I heard what they all did, I was stoked to be a part of it.”

When The Darling Fire came together, what came first: did you want to create a band that sounded like this, or did you get a few friends, jam together, and start crafting the sound?

Kind of both. Jolie [Lindholm, guitar and vocals] and Jeronimo [Gomez, guitar] had a sound in mind, and they started mapping it out with writing out songs for demos with programmed drums. I think they even had some songs written without drums. We’ve known each other since the mid '90s when we were all in the South Florida music scene. We were all in bands at that time, like they both used to be in a band The Rocking Horse Winner, who were on Equal Vision Records in the early 2000s. I date back to heavier bands like Shai Hulud and Strongarm. So we all knew each other through the local scene and loosely kept track to each other.

They contacted me about a year ago, asking if I would be down to track and play drums on their music, and they sent me some demos to give me a taste. I listened to the first demo, Omaha, which will be on our debut record out in June, and I loved what I heard. It was very dark and different from the music I remembered them playing. This was a lot more deep and dark, and I was very interested. So I joined them, and we got two more guys: Matt Short [guitar], who they knew, and then Gregg Moore [bass], who had been one of my close friends for over 30 years. They’re all phenomenal musicians. It went from there, basically. Jeronimo writes the concepts and songs, whereas Jolie writes the lyrics and harmonies, and then we all come in and add our own influences. After we re-evaluate everything, it becomes the finished song. So it was part 'We knew you from the past, let’s come together,' and part 'We want you to be part of this if you’re interested.'

When it comes to working with these people that you’ve known for so long, is there something that you were surprised by from them -- maybe that you didn’t know that they had it in them?

They’re all talented and I know all their capabilities. There’s no bar set or anything. I guess we’re all coming out of the last year or two from our own traumatic experiences that we didn’t know about each other [having]. From various negative experiences, even with the title Dark Celebration, it’s like we’re moving on from this dark, bleak period of time into the music that is coming out of us now. It was interesting seeing new music from what Jolie and Jeronimo did before, in that this is heavier and darker. As far as Greg, we were in my first band together. He’s just a monster on bass. The sky's the limit for him. Matt, I’ve known of him the least amount of time, but he’s awesome.

As a drummer, what part of your taste and talents did this band help awaken in you?

Energy. That’s the big thing. When people try to classify and label you, They use terms and subgenres are words like dark and shoegaze, which you don’t necessarily think drummy. You think lethargic. And I definitely had used my style of playing to enhance what’s already there in the music. Some people might think it’s forced, but it’s all natural -- I just want to add some uniqueness or subtly to the music. Like a cool fill or something like that.

Energy being used for music that, as you said, is relatively dreamy but not really high octane, is kind of a cool idea.

That’s what I’m digging about this. I see elements of the darker, noisier shoegaze like My Bloody Valentine, and then we have a bit of hardcore energy of sorts that makes it special. I really love everything about this band. It’s like second family to me. I’ve collaborated on many projects, but this isn’t a project, this is a group. We’re gonna play these songs regularly, tour, all of that. None of these songs are filler. There’s a formula, but every song goes in a different direction. There’s going to be a lot for the listener when they listen to the record in its entirety.

Given that this is a new sound you guys are immersing yourselves in, is there something specifically on the record that you’re excited to introduce fans to?

I think it would have to be the music video for one of the songs. We had a shoestring budget and a small amount of time, and it was northing short of miraculous. Just remarkable. I can’t wait for people to see the video and hear the song. It’s a song called Saints in Masquerade. We absolutely love the way it turned out. I’m looking forward to everyone hearing everything, but because we have a video to accompany it, that’s what I’m most excited about.

Check out an exclusive premiere of the Saints In Masquerade video below:

The Darling Fire's Dark Celebration comes out June 14th via Spartan Records, and is available for preorder .

Make sure to catch the band live at one of the following dates:

14 - New York, NY @ Arlene's Grocery 15 - New York, NY @ Arlene's Grocery

20 – Palm Beach Gardens, FL @ Swampgrass Willy’s 27 – Tampa, FL @ Crowbar

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LISTEN TO THE EXCLUSIVE PREMIERE OF THE NEW SINGLE “HERS” FROM THE DARLING FIRE

After enduring crushing sorrow, loss, and personal grief, The Darling Fire returns with their sophomore release Distortions. It arrives September 16 via Iodine Recordings. The new material is abrasive, gloomy, and brooding. There’s also a more potent metallic influence.

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“HERS is about the strangeness of vivid dreams, and how they can sometimes feel so real that the lines between reality and fiction are blurred. Sometimes you feel like you’re falling, only to be jolted back into your physical body on this side of the plane. I’ve had many experiences like this during my life, and I can still remember a few childhood dreams and nightmares in detail that have stuck with me all these years.

This is one of the earlier songs we wrote for DISTORTIONS , and for those that are familiar, it’s definitely going to sound heavier and more intense than the last album we released. Like a crazy dream—or a nightmare—we wanted this song to take the listener on a journey, with a non-traditional structure, twists, and turns, although it does have a theme that’s revisited through to the end. Jay Maas (Defeater, Bane, Title Fight) helped us achieve the layering we had in mind, and we were able to bring some unique touches into the mix for this one. This is one of my personal favorites on the album.”

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Video Premiere: The Darling Fire – “Rituals”

Post hardcore rockers The Darling Fire hit us today with a gloomy, moody new video for the track “Rituals,” from their latest album Distortions,  out now via Iodine Recordings.

Vocalist Jolie Lindholm shares her opinion about the video:

“‘Rituals’ is a dark expression of the things we do to maintain sanity in an insane world. Our spirit breaks time and again, but we piece it back together, becoming a morphed version of ourselves that’s grown from that anguish. The song’s structure demonstrates the ebbs and flows that life presents, with little breaths and a heavy bridge that slows time like our most traumatic moments often do. “The actress, Autumn, plays a woman in pain who performs a ceremony in solitude, as an otherworldly entity begins to envelop her. She becomes increasingly more disturbed, contorted, and disheveled. We created an avatar by hand in our home–a mask of collected branches stitched together and wrapped in twine—so we could really show her transformation. She appears among us during our live performance at times, as my shadow, haunting me. She represents human suffering and the rituals that will sometimes invoke unintended things from deep inside of us. “We knew Toddi Babu would translate our concept to film perfectly, with his dark and wicked treatment, hazy lighting, and edgy cuts. We were sealed in a sensory-deprived room for seven hours, lit only by candles and minimal lighting. The atmosphere was humid, energetic, and dusty, providing just the right amount of grittiness we needed. The performance itself became a ritualistic exorcism for all of us.

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Vocalist-guitarist Jolie Lindholm is known for fronting the Rocking Horse Winner & guesting on Dashboard Confessional's first two LPs.

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Vocalist-guitarist Jolie Lindholm used to front the Rocking Horse Winner, a very good South Florida emo band who never quite got their shine and broke up in 2004. You’ve heard her voice if you’ve listened to either of the first two Dashboard Confessional albums; she duetted with Chris Carrabba on tracks across 2000’s Swiss Army Romance and 2001’s Gold-certified The Places You Have Come to Fear the Most . Unfortunately, we haven’t heard much from her in the years since.

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Today, that changes. The Darling Fire, a new Lindholm-fronted supergroup announced last year, debuts the first hint of new tunes.

The rumbling post-hardcore track “For the Loveless” finds Lindholm joining forces with a host of characters from the Sunshine State’s vibrant emo, metalcore, and indie rock scenes of the past two decades (the family tree is so deep that we just listed them all below.) It’s the first single off the Darling Fire’s debut album Dark Celebration , due June 14 on Spartan Records. The whole thing was produced and mixed by J. Robbins, frontman of recently-reunited D.C. punks Jawbox . 

The band explains to Billboard via e-mail how pressures of modern society helped inspire “For the Loveless”: 

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There’s a certain segment of the Japanese population that isolate themselves from the world by choice, for months or even years at a time. They do this partly due to fear, sometimes due to mental illness and often because they simply prefer to be removed from society. “For the Loveless” was written for these confined adolescents and adults, the Hikikomori, but also speaks to anyone who feels particularly unique or isolated. 

Find “For the Loveless” below, along with the Darling Fire’s complete lineup. (The band also credits Eric Fensler for the spoken-word sample at the song’s beginning.) 

Vocals-guitar: Jolie Lindholm (The Rocking Horse Winner)  Guitar: Jeronimo Gomez (Poison The Well, The Rocking Horse Winner, As Friends Rust) Guitar: Matthew Short (Jasperwal, D_Composure, Rival Science) Bass: Gregg Moore (No Fraud, Slap of Reality, Pull)  Drums: Steven Kleisath (Further Seems Forever, Shai Hulud, Useless Things, Strongarm) 

Tour dates and the Dark Celebration pre-order are available  here . 

And if you need an introduction to the Rocking Horse Winner, check out their 2002 slapper “ Miss You .”

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Central Oregon Interagency Dispatch Update – Darlene 3 Fire | June 25, 2024

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Central Oregon — Central Oregon Fire Management Service firefighters responded to the Darlene 3 Fire (Incident #289) around 12:45 p.m. this afternoon. The fire started approximately one mile southeast of La Pine on the east side of Darlene Way.

The latest fire size estimate is 250 acres and growing with 0% containment. The cause of the fire is under investigation. Responding resources include engines, handcrews, dozers, water tenders, Large Air Tankers, Helicopters, and various overhead.

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Darlene Fire in Central Oregon brings Level 3 'go now' evacuations in La Pine

The Deschutes County Sheriff's Office on Tuesday afternoon announced evacuations in La Pine due to the Darlene Fire.

The fire in Central Oregon was impacting the area of Darlene Way and Finley Butte Road in La Pine.

It was first reported at 12:56 p.m. and had reached 250 acres, according to Watch Duty .

Gov. Tina Kotek has invoked the Emergency Conflagration Act which allows the state fire marshal to mobilize firefighters and equipment to assist local resources.

The Oregon State Fire Marshal Red Incident Management Team has been mobilized along with two task forces from Linn and Marion Counties, according to a news release.

McKay Crossing Campground, Prairie Campground, Ogden Group Campground and the Rosland OHV play area and associated trails are all closed due to the fire, according to Central Oregon Fire Info .

Level 3 "go now" evacuations had been issued east of the railroad tracks near Darlene Way and Ice Cave Road.

Level 2 "be set" evacuations had been issued for the areas east of Highway 97 and Rosland Pit.

Level 1 "be ready" evacuations had been issued for the area east of Highway 97 along Rosland Road, including Newberry Estates.

The most updated information can be found at deschutes.org/emergency .

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Evacuations ordered for Darlene 3 fire near La Pine; Kotek invokes conflagration act

• Published: Jun. 25, 2024, 6:22 p.m.

Smoke rising from the Darlene 3 fire near La Pine, Oregon. Courtesy of Oregon State Fire Marshal

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Gusty winds fanned a wildfire to 250 acres Tuesday afternoon near La Pine as authorities issued evacuation notices for several areas nearby.

The fire started about 2 p.m. a mile south of La Pine on the east side of Darlene Way. Level 3 “go now” and Level 2 “be set” evacuation notices were in place east of the railroad tracks near Darlene Way and Ice Cave Road and for areas east of U.S. 97, the Deschutes County Sheriff’s Office said.

A temporary evacuation point was set up at La Pine High School and an emergency animal shelter was established at the La Pine Rodeo Grounds, according to the sheriff’s office.

Recreational areas including McKay Crossing Campground, Prairie Campground, Ogden Group Campground and the Rosland OHV play area, along with their associated trails, have been shut down, according to Central Oregon fire officials.

Gov. Tina Kotek invoked the Emergency Conflagration Act, enabling the state fire marshal to call in additional firefighters and equipment to bolster the efforts of local teams.

The state’s Red Incident Management Team, along with two task forces from Linn and Marion counties have been dispatched to fire, the state fire marshal said in a statement. More firefighting teams are expected to arrive by Wednesday morning.

For the latest updates and evacuation notices, go to deschutes.org/emergency .

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Darlene 3 Fire grows to 2,415 acres SE of La Pine, 30% contained; evacuation area expands as heat, winds expected to test lines

(Update: Adding updated evacuation levels, new perimeter map, Isabella Warren will have updates tonight)

La PINE, Ore. (KTVZ) – The Darlene 3 Fire that broke out Tuesday afternoon southeast of La Pine and prompted a major air and ground attack, hundreds of evacuations and a Conflagration Act call-up of task forces from around the state grew to just over 2,400 acres by Wednesday, but crews working through the night had it 30% contained.

That cause of the blaze last estimated at 2,415 acres and that put up tall, surging plumes of smoke for hours “is actively being investigated,” a Wednesday morning update stated.

 Firefighters worked through the night to establish control lines around the fire perimeter.

"Winds and warm temperatures this afternoon are expected and will test established lines," the early Wednesday afternoon update stated. "Today’s focus will be to keep the fire within its current footprint and strengthening the lines with dozers, hand crews and engines. Air resources will continue to engage with the fire as needed."\

"Fire investigators are actively investigating this fire," officials said. "As we move into the dry summer months here in Central Oregon, it is imperative for our community and visitors to be vigilant about fire safety. Please be aware of and check with local land management agencies for current fire restrictions as we move into a high fire danger level across Central Oregon."

The Central Oregon Type 3 team with Incident Commander Vince Grace took command of the Darlene 3 Fire Wednesday morning, in unified command with Oregon State Fire Marshal Red Team, Incident Commander Ian Yocum.

Structure and wildland resources continue to arrive at the Incident Command Post in La Pine to support the fire. Six task forces of structural firefighters will be actively working to prep and protect structures. These include the eastside of the City of La Pine, Newberry Estates, as well as nearby water and power infrastructure.

On Wednesday morning, the Deschutes County Sheriff's Office issued a Level 1 BE READY evacuation notice for the area west of Highway 97 north of Burgess Road, east of the Little Deschutes River and south of Riverview Drive. 

Also, Forest Service land on the eastern side of the fire that was previously at LEVEL 2 BE SET has been upgraded to LEVEL 3 GO NOW. The area on the north side of Paulina Lake Highway remains at LEVEL 2 BE SET.

Isabella Warren is returning to the fire area Wednesday for an update on the battle to contain the fire that has brought firefighters from across the state and to update the impact on the community. We'll have team coverage again Wednesday evening on NewsChannel 21.

The fire was reported around 1 p.m. Tuesday near Darlene Way on the southeast outskirts of La Pine and quickly put up huge, billowing smoke plumes as it raced across 1,700 acres by nightfall, prompting a rapidly changing mix of, Level 3 GO NOW evacuations and Level 2 BE SET alerts, public land closures and a power shutoff in the area.

Central Oregon fire dispatch first reported around 1:15 p.m. that Incident 289 was burning a mile southeast of La Pine, on the east side of Darlene Way near Finley Butte Road. The fire was initially estimated at 3-5 acres and officials said four engines, a bulldozer, a crew and several air resources were responding. The cause was under investigation.

By 2:15 p.m., the fire was estimated at 15 acres and spreading to the northeast, with more air and ground resources ordered in. Before 3 p.m. came word the newly named Darlene 3 Fire had grown to about 50 acres as the air and ground battle was fully underway

Three local task forces made up of firefighters from numerous agencies rushed to help tackle the blaze as new spot fires were reported and an unconfirmed scanner report the blaze had jumped to the north side Finley Butte Road around 2:10 p.m. The later focus was on stopping the fire as it moved toward Reed Road.

Shortly before 2 p.m., Deschutes Alert sent out a wildfire evacuation notice – ‘Level 3 – GO NOW!’ The area covered by the evacuation notice is east of the railroad tracks, near Darlene Way and Ice Cave Road. Around 2:30 p.m. emergency managers added a Level 2 "GET SET" evacuation notice for areas east of Highway 97 and south of Rosland Pit.

Just before 4 p.m., the sheriff's office added a Level 3 "GO NOW" evacuation notice for areas east of Highway 97 north of Reed Road, including areas off Rosland Road and Newberry Estates. You can check the latest evacuation map here .

Shortly after 6, DCSO provided this update:

Level 3 GO NOW Evacuations for the areas east of Highway 97 south of Drafter Road, south of Bassett Drive to Highway 31.

Level 2 BE SET evacuations for the area east of Highway 97 to the train tracks from Reed Road south to Bassett Drive. 

They urge you to continue to visit  deschutes.org/emergency  for the most up-to-date evacuation levels.

The DCSO said Tuesday night the American Red Cross is staffing the evacuation shelter at La Pine High School (51633 Coach Rd.) with additional support from the Deschutes County Medical Reserve Corps.

The La Pine Activity Center (16450 Victory Way) is open for RVs to park and has space for animals.

The La Pine Rodeo Grounds is accepting livestock and companion animals in coordination with the Pet Evacuation Team.

Bend Pet Resort (60909 SE 27th St., Bend), is accepting cats and dogs and can be reached by calling 458-666-7505.

Jodi Kerr was packing up her home decor and gifts store in La Pine so she could evacuate, The Associated Press reported.

“It’s part of the risk of living in an area like this. It’s beautiful, but it’s wild,” said Kerr, the owner of Meandering Maker Mercantile.

She said it’s hard to think about the people who’ve spent years building businesses and then be concerned about losing it all overnight.

The Forest Service said in the late afternoon that McKay Crossing Campground, Prairie Campground, Ogden Group Camp and the Rosland OHV play area and associated trails on the Deschutes National Forest were being evacuated and closed.

Midstate Electric Cooperative told Newberry Estates residents around 3:20 p.m. it was "highly probable" they would have to enact a Public Safety Power Shutoff in the area. Twenty minutes earlier, they posted that the fire was moving in the direction of the area's Bonneville Power Administration substation.

At 5:30 p.m., the cooperative said power was out "in various areas of our service territory" - their outage map for a time showed just over 2,000 members without power.

Midstate Communications Manager Sina Streeter said Wednesday morning there were still "a few services in the Finley Butte area" that were out.

"We are waiting for access to the burn area to complete assessments of affected equipment," she said, adding that "all critical infrastructure is operational at this time."

 The Prineville District Bureau of Land Management also issued an Emergency Public Land Closure. The closure includes all BLM-administered lands within an area bounded by Forest Service Road 180 on the south, Highway 97 on the west, Paulina Lake Road on the north, and the Deschutes National Forest Boundary on the east.

"This closure is effective immediately and will remain in effect until such a time as conditions allow for safe use of the public lands."

The fire's name - Darlene 3 - points to a history of wildfires in the area. In mid-July of 2021, the Darlene Fire burned nearly 700 acres before it was contained and destroyed two homes .

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There's a new waffle in minneapolis: darling now open in former birchwood cafe.

Yes, there is a waffle.

It's not THE waffle, the legendary one that showed Minneapolis you could throw a bunch of veggies and grains into a breakfast staple and make it a savory triumph. That was farm-to-table pioneer Birchwood Cafe's claim to fame, and the new Darling, though it inhabits the once-groundbreaking Minneapolis cafe's former home, is not Birchwood.

There are some similarities, if you squint hard enough. The bones of the space, of course, and even some of the blond-wood furniture and slatted benches. A menu of brunch heavyweights and dishes packed with locally grown veggies that almost make you forget there was a time when knowing your farmer was revolutionary.

And even a familiar face in Marshall Paulsen, the former Birchwood chef who's now a behind-the-scenes contributor on the business side of things.

But Darling is more than a tribute to the past, thanks to the bubbly creativity and enthusiasm of husband-and-wife team Juell and Ray Roberts , the former personal chefs to Prince. They still run the food program at Paisley Park, as well as their other business, Peoples Organic Cafe. With partners Mike Smith (Hi-Lo Diner) and Jeff Zajac, they bought the 4,144-square-foot building earlier this year for $1.15 million , and opened Darling in mid-June for breakfast and lunch. (Dinner, and a full liquor license, are still to come.)

The cafe is already starting to feel like an original Seward neighborhood fixture, thanks to some fresh green paint, an inviting bar, Mickey D's-inspired sandwiches, Prince playing on the sound system and, yes, their own spin on the sweet-and-savory waffle.

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When the Robertses were contemplating taking over the old Birchwood, they struck up a conversation with a food-world acquaintance who had intimate knowledge of the former cafe: Paulsen. He had recently left Union Hmong Kitchen as operations director and had just started his own restaurant consulting business . He joined the Darling team temporarily to help with the business of running a restaurant. "The first time that I came in, it was really surreal," Paulsen said of his return.

There were some ghosts of Birchwood to exorcise. And not only because the 25-year-old cafe had closed abruptly in 2021 , after what the owner called a "labor dispute ," in which three-quarters of the staff was laid off.

The freezers hadn't been opened in three years — and they were full of food.

"We're talking masks," said Paulsen, who was tasked with going through the kitchen and figuring out what to do with what was left behind.

Paulsen's next order of business was to help Ray Roberts, the chef, create a new waffle. Paulsen whipped up the old Birchwood recipe, and the Robertses analyzed everything they liked and didn't like about it. Chickpea flour was the first thing to go, Juell Roberts said. "Chickpea was a super hip thing in the '90s to do," she said. "But it's very granular and very dry." She suggested subbing coconut flour, and amped up the texture with red quinoa. The filling, for now, is asparagus and chive, with a scoop of radish butter on top. It'll change seasonally; look for sweet corn later in the summer. (The waffle, which is gluten-free, is $16.)

Breakfast might start with that waffle, but it doesn't end there. The showstopper is the Dutch baby, a head-turning fluff of a pancake that takes 20 minutes and is made to order ($14, plus more for add-ons like eggs, cheese and meat). Other substantial breakfast and brunch items range from a customizable omelet ($15) to a don't-miss bacon-egg-and-cheese sandwich with Calabrian mayo on Vikings & Goddesses' croissant bread ($14).

For a quick morning bite, Darling is proofing and baking croissant dough from Vikings & Goddesses, and filling the Danish with their own fruit filling (right now, it's rhubarb).

The lunch list is shorter but expected to grow. Paulsen collaborated with Ray Roberts on a double smash cheeseburger ($18, with fries or salad), and a fried cod sandwich that was inspired by a popular fast-food version ($16, with fries or salad).

Roberts, a former vegetarian, is clearly at home working with vegetables, both at the health food franchise Peoples Organic and now at Darling. He corns beets for a veg take on a Reuben (the Grilled Ruby, $16) and for a hearty bowl brimming with grilled Broccolini, snap peas and potatoes. The maitake tartine ($15) tops a slice of sourdough with whipped ricotta, pickled onion and marinated mushrooms; you don't have to be vegetarian to find it deeply satisfying. There's also a salad of peaches, burrata and mint ($14) that kicks the door to summer wide open. Many of the restaurant's herbs come from the garden out back.

"Who we are is very much healthy food," said Juell Roberts, "but also Minnesota comfort."

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Location: 3311 E. 25th St., Mpls., darlingmpls.com . Open for breakfast and lunch 7 a.m.-3 p.m. Tue.-Sat. Dinner (and full bar) coming soon. No reservations.

The food: Breakfast dishes range from $13 to $16, but can go higher with protein add-ons. A short lunch sandwich menu ranges from $15 to $18, and large, composed salads start at $10.

The drinks: Just espresso drinks, coffee from a Minnesota roaster, and other soft drinks. Expect a full bar after the liquor license comes through, potentially in the next few weeks. Coffee drinks start around $3, lattes at $4.20. Look for protein shakes (from $9.50), too.

Sharyn Jackson is a features reporter covering the Twin Cities' vibrant food and drink scene.

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By now, I’m sure you’ve all seen that the royals had a fun family night out at the Eras Tour last week.

On Friday, Prince William celebrated his 42nd birthday in style by attending Night 1 of Taylor Swift ’s Eras Tour at Wembley Stadium in London.

Joined by Prince George and Princess Charlotte , the future king was seen in the crowd dancing his heart out to Taylor’s biggest hits. And while Prince William’s dance moves might imply he’s the biggest Swiftie in the royal family, a new report has suggested otherwise.

According to Entertainment Tonight , it was Princess Charlotte who encouraged the family night out to watch Taylor perform, with insiders claiming the 9-year-old is “the huge Taylor Swift fan in the family.”

Kate Middleton — who confirmed in March that she is undergoing cancer treatment — did not attend the concert. An insider told ET that Princess Charlotte’s night at the Eras Tour was extra special amid her mom’s recent health concerns.

“She has wanted to go to the concert for months, but with her mum being treated for cancer, this was a really special day to be able to celebrate her Papa’s birthday like this,” the source claimed after confirming that Kate opted to stay home with Prince Louis.

So, being such a massive fan, we can barely imagine how excited Charlotte must have been to have a private meet-and-greet with Taylor backstage after the show — even posing for a selfie with the singer.

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Notably, the ET report also alleged that Prince William likely didn’t care that his “dad dancing” went viral , saying instead that he “really just wanted it to be a special night for Prince George and Princess Charlotte.”

You can read the full Entertainment Tonight report here.

BuzzFeed has reached out to Kensington Palace for comment.

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To understand the forces tearing apart California’s Shasta County, consider what has happened to Cathy Darling Allen.

In five consecutive elections, voters in the rural county have selected her as their chief election official. That means that since 2004, she’s been responsible for voter registration, the administration of elections, and a host of related tasks. She’s consistently been the only Democrat in countywide office in the conservative county, where Donald Trump won more than 60% of the vote in 2020. In 2022, her most recent appearance on the ballot, she took in nearly 70% of the vote. By those indicators, she seems pretty popular.

But she has received a steady stream of threats from a loud minority of Shasta County residents who falsely believe the 2020 election was stolen from Trump. She has been repeatedly accused in public meetings and on social media of engaging in both satanism and witchcraft. The most committed MAGA activists have circulated petitions accusing her of sedition and treason. She’s been followed walking to her car. Someone — she still isn’t certain who — installed a trail camera behind her office, where votes are counted.

It’s taken a toll. Darling Allen, 55, had no history of heart problems. But in November, she was diagnosed with heart failure. Doctors say stress was a factor, and told her that in order to stay alive, she would have to reduce it . She went on medical leave in December and officially retired as the county’s registrar of voters in early May, two years before her latest term was scheduled to end.

Retiring early “feels like a get out of jail free card,” she said over a salt-free breakfast at a diner in downtown Redding in March. “But it isn’t. It has all these conditions.”

She monitors her heart rate and goes to “a lot” of doctors appointments. She doesn’t go to county meetings anymore, even though her name comes up at all of them. Her daughter monitors them online, letting her know if something crops up that requires her attention. Often, it does: Shasta County has become a national symbol, roiled by a series of well-publicized clashes over election administration.

Tucked in the heavily forested northeastern reaches of California, Shasta County was named for Mount Shasta, a volcano known to erupt in bursts of activity followed by thousands of years of dormancy. The volcano has been quiet for generations. In contrast, the pressures felt in Shasta County — economic turbulence, the fallout from devastating wildfires and the COVID pandemic, the visible presence of militias, the swelling growth of a local megachurch, a housing crisis, and massive cultural shifts — disrupt daily life for many.

Elections aren’t the only fault line, but they’re the most visible, and the cracks are widening.

In mid-March, a volunteer offered the invocation at a county meeting and prayed for “peace and calmness.” Moments later, she called one of the commissioners “the spawn of satan running interference for a hostile” voter registrar. Members of the audience screamed at each other. One woman told the other side of the room to “shove it.” A man blew a raspberry back.

“We are in the third grade,” whispered Joanna Francescut, Darling Allen’s deputy, who began to lead the department in her absence.

While the anger expressed toward them at the meetings is unsettling, neither Francescut nor Darling Allen believes they are the cause of it. Elections aren’t even the cause, they don’t think. “It’s a trauma response,” Francescut later said, while her teenage daughter danced nearby during a line dancing class at a local brewery, packed with families and twirling couples. Darling Allen agreed.

“This community has been through so much,” she said. Elections just became what everyone was mad about after 2020, when national politics and local elected officials became obsessed with Trump’s claims he’d actually won the election. “That’s why the meetings are so bad.”

Democrats and moderate Republicans in Shasta County say they are worried the anger and division will poison the community for good, and the goals of the ongoing assault on local institutions are increasingly unclear.

“This isn’t a big city. We can’t just stop talking to each other,” said lifelong resident Jenny O’Connell, who comes to the board of supervisors meetings each week and begs for civility. “‘Oh, gee, I’d love for my kid to go, but those other kids are there. I’d love to go to dinner, but the wrong people own that restaurant.’ It’s going to start breaking down our economy.”

What’s happening in Shasta County is a concentrated version of the same rage playing out in deep red counties across the United States. Think Kerr County in Texas or Cochise County in Arizona or Washoe County in Nevada, where election administrators have left office citing untenable treatment and consistently outraged constituents. While elections may be the outrage du jour, officials and longtime residents in all of these counties are concerned the damage to civic life will outlive the fad.

Justin Grimmer is a political scientist at Stanford University who monitors specific election conspiracy theorists and reaches out to the counties they engage with, offering rebuttal information. Shasta is one of many he’s visited and dozens he’s interacted with. But it stands out in his mind. While other counties may have talked about election integrity once or twice, Shasta has bogged down, pressing the issue in every supervisors meeting over nearly four years. In his mind, it’s a tragedy, with the community as collateral damage.

“Every minute you are spending working on a fake problem you are not working on a real one, and there are real problems in Shasta County,” he said. The lengths elected officials there are willing to go, and the millions of dollars they are willing to spend, also stand out to him. “It’s hard to think of a parallel.”

When things went too far

O’Connell — who speaks at meetings with a soft voice and often wears strawberry-themed or patterned clothing — has made reuniting the community a personal mission. Her own husband is among the loudest critics of the board of supervisors and writes a regular column on a local news and commentary website, so she recognizes how radical her position seems by contrast.

At times, even she thinks her attempts are futile. At a meeting in late March, Supervisor Patrick Henry Jones was caught on a hot mic referring to her as “stupid Jenny.” During the same meeting, a speaker disguised by a gas mask to protect his identity read “leaked” texts from a different supervisor that referred to O’Connell’s husband, the local blogger who is also a county employee, as “a stupid piece of shit” and joked about beating him up and taking his lunch money.

When O’Connell approached the microphone at a supervisors meeting the following week, she was in tears, struggling to get the words out.

“Patrick was right. I was stupid,” she said between sobs. “I thought if people saw that if this woman could get along that didn’t agree with them, that other people would do it too, but it’s just too far. They won’t.”

It’s hard for O’Connell to pin down exactly when things went too far, but she’s certain Jones should shoulder much of the blame. Darling Allen agrees. Even those who agree with his politics acknowledge he has done more than any other elected official to divide the county.

In 2010, while mayor of Redding, Jones protested the construction of a local bridge, vowing to never use it. Instead, he dressed up as George Washington and rowed across the Sacramento River in a wooden boat. He repeatedly invited a far-right documentary crew to film him — complete with flickering lights and dramatic music — doing things like dismantling COVID protections in county offices. In 2021, he paid a technician to come up from Bakersfield and give him a lie detector test after multiple county officials had accused him of lying about attempting to fire a former police chief. He passed .

“Is it possible that Jones actually believes his own bullshit?” a local website asked at the time.

Jones’ efforts have recently been focused on elections.

Last year he led an effort to rid the county of Dominion voting machines, of the type Trump complained about after the 2020 elections. Trump’s rhetoric on voting machines led to a wave of heavily Republican counties rejecting electronic voting of any kind, in favor of hand-cast, hand-counted ballots. Shasta County supervisors voted to hand count ballots in January 2023 , over the objections of Darling Allen, who cited cost projections, the county’s own simulations, and multiple academic studies showing the process would be expensive and error prone.

Ultimately, the state stepped in, making the practice illegal in a county of Shasta’s size. Jones pressed it anyway, championing the establishment of an election commission to investigate voter fraud, which has been roiled since its inception by resignations and threats of lawsuits . Jones has repeatedly accused the elections department — and Darling Allen personally — of violating election law and fabricating evidence that hand counting is impractical.

There is no proof any of those claims are true. During her 20-year tenure, votes were counted efficiently and the results have never been successfully challenged. California law allows citizens to lodge complaints against local offices with county grand juries, which are then compelled to investigate. In the last five years, the local grand jury has been repeatedly convened for such investigations into her office following allegations that track closely with Jones’. No wrongdoing has ever been found.

For years, Jones has spent hours observing election processes in Darling Allen’s office. He spends much more time there than in his own office one floor up from the board’s chambers. If his constituents need some of his time, they know to skip that office altogether in favor of his family’s Redding gun store, Jones Fort.

There, seated below mounted elk and buffalo heads in the low-slung building that takes up much of a city block, he explained the origins of his election concerns and the reason he was so intent on hand counting. In 2012, he said, he sat next to local union leader Andrew Meredith and counted 30,000 ballots over the course of two days, part of a hand recount in a city council race. He said they never disagreed, and together caught more than 200 “computer errors.” Jones said they regularly had lunch after that, and became friends.

“When you agree on something 30,000 times you start to get along,” he said.

But Meredith flatly says the episode “didn’t happen” and says he’s never interacted socially with Jones. While Jones observed the counting process, Meredith and others who were present in 2012 say he personally counted no ballots. Ultimately, the total changed by two votes. Jones declined to address the contradiction.

“The thing with Patrick, I think,” said District 1 Supervisor Kevin Crye, who supports Jones and credits him with his own entry to politics, “is that sometimes he has two different experiences, combines them, and tells them as one story.”

But whether the stories Jones tells are partially true or completely fabricated hasn’t made much difference to Darling Allen, who said his accusations about her credibility and the web of conspiracies they’ve produced have significantly affected her life. Prior to Darling Allen’s retirement and two weeks after she returned from the hospital in November, Jones conveyed through staff that, now that the California Legislature had banned hand counting, he expected her to return hundreds of thousands of dollars from her budget meant to pay for the process.

Much of it had already been spent — hand counting requires significantly more space and different materials than the office had on hand. Returning the money would have meant laying off staff. Darling Allen’s heart rate began to race. That, she says, convinced her to retire.

And even though her deputy, Francescut, has stepped in as the registrar since she went on leave, Darling Allen finds Jones still looms large. The waitress who served Darling Allen her salt-free breakfast thanked her “for her service” and apologized for her treatment before asking when the results of Jones’ race would be announced.

A few days later, Darling Allen and Francescut got up and moved tables at a local lunch spot to avoid the ire of one of Jones’ friends, who was seated nearby.

Back at the office, election staff were continuing to tabulate the results of the primary election from a few days before. The results wouldn’t be final for about two weeks, but it wasn’t looking good for Jones.

Ultimately, his challenger — first-time candidate Matt Plummer — won so resoundingly that there will be no contest in November. Plummer got more than 60%, so he will take Jones’ place in January 2025.

When those results came before the board of supervisors in early April, Jones announced he had no intention of certifying the election. His gripes were many and varied: Francescut, following in Darling Allen’s footsteps, had violated vaguely described laws. He described rules for auditing results, which appeared to have no basis in state law, that were also violated. He was confident, he said, that the rest of the supervisors would agree that the results were so flawed as to be invalid.

In fact, that wasn’t in their power. Darling Allen had already certified the results, sending them to the secretary of state. The public declaration was a procedural step only . That didn’t seem to matter to Jones, who called machine voting “an insanity.”

“We’re purchasing machinery we cannot verify,” he said, adding a false claim that machines used by a quarter of Americans “can be hacked with $10.50 of parts.”

A recount performed in the recent election, he said, was error-filled. “They didn’t get it right,” he said. “I saw it with my own eyes.”

Ultimately, Jones was the only supervisor to reject the results.

Election fights mask Shasta’s larger problems

“I didn’t distrust the machines,” he told me. But he said it was clear to him, by the time he took office, that community anger at Dominion wasn’t going away. He also said he preferred to buy machines rather than continue an expensive rental contract. Regardless, he does not personally feel there is adequate proof to suggest the 2020 election was stolen. This distinction matters to Crye, and he says it has been ignored by local and national media. “They keep calling me a fascist. I’m not a fascist.”

For her part, Darling Allen doesn’t find this explanation comforting. During his first race in 2022, Crye — who runs a successful chain of Ninja Warrior gyms — visited her office daily to observe vote counting. Elections staff took pains to engage with him, answering questions about the process. “We spent hours with him explaining how things worked over multiple days, and he was pleasant and understood,” she said, concluding about his 2023 rejection of Dominion machines, “His vote was two-faced.”

That vote sparked the recall effort. Then, a county-funded visit to MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell’s property in Minnesota fanned the flames on the outrage. By the time of Crye’s March 2023 visit, Lindell was already in hot water for his false claims of election malfeasance — he’d been kicked off Twitter , had his cell phone seized by the FBI, and was subpoenaed by the Jan. 6 Commission. Crye pulled out of speaking at a Lindell event as a result of the controversy.

The sheer number of public battles over elections have given the false impression, county employees and local Democrats say, that the issue of voting and Darling Allen’s management of it are the most dire problems Shasta County faces. In reality, it has far more pressing concerns: It has among the state’s highest poverty rates and highest infant mortality rates. Suicides occur there at two-and-ahalf times the state average. Homelessness is worse than anyone can remember.

Darling Allen isn’t immune: She’s raising her 6-year-old granddaughter, whose mother has battled drug addiction for years. Darling Allen is open about it — many local families have been broken apart by the county’s high addiction rate.

Shasta County was home to some of the first settlers to California, who were drawn to the area during the Gold Rush. The area that now comprises the city of Redding, the county seat, was originally called Poverty Flats. After the rush wore itself out, the surrounding forests provided thousands of well-paying timber jobs that sustained the community for decades. By the 1970s the industry was declining nationwide, and by the 1990s, legislation to protect the threatened spotted owl shut down nearly all area timber mills. It’s still a sore spot for many.

In 2018, a camper trailer scraping pavement ignited what would become the second most devastating fire in California history — the Carr Fire, named for the intersection at which it started. Before it was completely contained that August, the blaze destroyed 1,100 homes in Shasta County. Many were never rebuilt.

The housing crisis has been compounded by the growth of a local megachurch, Bethel. Thousands have moved from across the country and the world to live near and participate in the church, which has a reported 11,000 members in a city of 90,000 people. The church’s online streaming platform and wildly successful music program — Bethel Music, which has 5 million subscribers on YouTube — have made it a household name in Evangelical Christian worship circles across the world.

Longtime residents say it’s changed the fabric of the community, though they disagree on whether that’s good. The church has driven “ faith tourism ” to the county, and has brought some racial and ethnic diversity. Nearly all of the new businesses — the hip cafes, pizza restaurants, and bars with good happy hour specials — have been opened by people who moved to the area for Bethel.

Bethel describes itself as “an American non-denominational neo-charismatic megachurch.” It has a conversion therapy program and ministries dedicated to “faith healing” and “dead raising.” Homeless residents, especially those with visible disabilities, say they are sometimes approached several times per day to be “healed” by Bethel churchgoers. In 2019, the church unsuccessfully attempted to resurrect the 2-year-old daughter of one of the pastors.

So, while many in the community are relieved to see Jones’ tenure on the board of supervisors come to a close in January, Plummer’s ascendence has sparked anxieties of its own. Plummer — who will succeed Jones next year — moved to the county almost a decade ago to join Bethel, and is an active participant in the church along with his wife and three daughters.

Plummer hopes that he can help restore order to the board of supervisors’ meetings. His day job is doing team building and critical thinking exercises for companies, and he’s got a lot of ideas for how that might come in handy.

“Maybe I’ll put a marble in a jar for every speaker who follows the rules,” he said, laughing. “When the jar is full I’ll pay for a pizza party.”

Francescut returns to her old job, and a tough task

Francescut took over the reins from Darling Allen in December. She’s been working in the elections office since 2008, when she took an hourly job verifying signatures on ballot petitions. She’s worked her way up in the 16 years since.

At a meeting in April, Francescut explained an extended absence after last November’s election: Her father-in-law had died after a two-year battle with cancer. A man in the audience — whose dog took up the width of the aisle next to his seat, secured by a rope leash — saw an opportunity.

“Karma’s a bitch!” he yelled.

Francescut said she’s mostly unfazed by the treatment. Raised in what she described as “the Ruby Ridge part” of Idaho, she says she’s learned not to take political disagreements personally. That’s becoming more and more difficult, she acknowledges.

Not every gathering in Shasta County is that way, though. Crye, the supervisor for District 1, holds weekly Friday morning gatherings at a coffee shop in his district. While many of the faces there are the same as those in the supervisors meetings, none of them are screaming. A recent one in early April featured a candid conversation about the county’s interpersonal problems. O’Connell was among the attendees, as usual, smiling quietly at the dozen or so people also gathered.

The attendees, mostly supporters of Crye, agreed the community was increasingly polarized and the supervisors meetings were out of hand. They said, though, that things had simmered down from the type of bullhorn-assisted screaming matches that had broken out during COVID lockdowns.

“What am I supposed to do about it? I don’t think I can do anything about it,” Crye, the elected chair for the board of supervisors, told the room when asked how he could shift the tone.

Francescut thinks the supervisors have more influence on tone than they realize, but — as of mid-June — she is no longer the target of the rage being voiced in their meetings. Last week, after two days of public interviews, the board of supervisors voted 3-2 to hire retired prosecutor Tom Toller to fill Darling Allen’s position through 2026. Toller has never run an election or volunteered as a poll worker. Francescut, who has worked for the office for 16 years, will return to the deputy position.

“What goes on in the elections office at this point is somewhat of a black box to me,” Toller told the board the day before he was appointed . “But I’m committed to quickly learning.”

Republican supervisors lauded Toller for his leadership style and his willingness to buck instructions issued by the secretary of state. In his cover letter to the board, Toller cited his belief that the county was ​​“in no way beholden to the Secretary of State in Sacramento, as if her interpretation was chapter and verse of Holy Writ.”

Clint Curtis, an attorney championed by Jones, also interviewed. After the 2000 election , Curtis claimed to have invented software that could manipulate the results of an election, and has been making similar claims since. Jones allowed him to speak at length during his public interview, where he made clear he would fire most of the staff.

Francescut’s interview, by comparison, was far less collegial. After interrogating her for decisions made by Darling Allen, Jones accused Francescut of “mal-conduct” that he characterized as “grave.” He repeated false accusations that both of them had violated the law, and that he’d witnessed them make errors. When Supervisor Mary Rickert read emails in support of Francescut and highlighted her popularity with the public, Crye said such support was immaterial.

“We’ve all been elected by the people in our district to make the best decisions we feel that need to be made,” he said. “If the people wanted to bring back slavery, I’d say you probably wouldn’t do that.”

Crye said he would vote for Francescut if Jones and others supported Curtis, which ultimately swung the vote in Toller’s favor.

Employees of the elections office were lined up along the back of the room as the vote came in, showing support for Francescut. Many of them are likely to leave as a result of the decision — more than a third of the office’s 21 staff members have already resigned this year.

For her part, Francescut she has no plans to leave. “I can’t go anywhere before November, ethically,” she said, though the decision devastated her. She’ll spend the next few months helping to train Toller and attempting to retain the staff she can convince to stay. The comparative obscurity of the deputy position will also allow her to spend less time interacting with the board.

“I’m tired of being told ‘break the law, and if you don’t we won’t hire you.’ Toller can take that heat for a while,” she said. “I’m just looking for some kind of joy to come back to this process.”

Jessica Huseman is Votebeat’s editorial director and is based in Dallas. Contact Jessica at [email protected].

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Phil Foden leaves England’s Euro 2024 camp due to ‘pressing family matter’

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Phil Foden has temporarily left England ’s Euro 2024 training camp to return home for the birth of his third child.

The Manchester City midfielder has started all three of England’s games so far in Germany, including last night’s 0-0 draw against Slovenia.

No details have been given regarding the specific nature of the matter, but Foden’s departure has been described as ‘temporary’, while sources close to the England squad say he is returning to attend the birth of his third child.

Foden, 24, has two children – a five-year-old son Ronnie and daughter True, who turns three in July – with his girlfriend Rebecca Cooke.

A short statement from the FA read: ‘Phil Foden has temporarily left the England camp and returned to the UK for a pressing family matter.’

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A timeframe has not been given for Foden’s potential return, with England set to play their last-16 knockout fixture on Sunday at 5pm .

England’s opponents will not be confirmed until the conclusion of the group stages but they will play one of the four best third-place teams, which could be any one of the Netherlands, Romania, Slovakia, Ukraine or Belgium.

Despite an improved display in Cologne, there have been repeated calls for Foden to be dropped from Southgate’s side.

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The 24-year-old was crowned FWA Footballer of the Year last season, after a campaign during which he notched up 19 goals and registered eight assists.

However, the City midfielder – deployed on the left of a midfield three alongside Jude Bellingham and Bukayo Saka this tournament – has thus far failed to replicate his club form at international level.

Should Foden be unable to start on Sunday, Newcastle’s Anthony Gordon, who came on in the closing stages against Slovenia, will be expected to start in his place.

At the Qatar World Cup in 2022, Raheem Sterling had to leave the camp to return home after a break-in at his home.

The Chelsea forward returned in time for England’s quarter-final against France where he came on as a second-half substitute.

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