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TV Tonight: Steve Carell’s new sitcom is for fans of Ted Lasso and Shrinking | television

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✨ Discover this trending post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Television,Television & radio,Culture 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: Rooster10pm, Sky OneSteve Carell stars in this campus comedy about a novelist father and his sad professor daughter. Greg (Caryl) visits the college when Katie (Charlie Clive) is going through a divorce from her academic husband who cheated on her with a student. Co-written by Bill Lawrence, who worked on Ted Lasso and Shrinking, look for Scrubs star John C McGinley, chewing up every scene. Holly RichardsonChina Dome Corniche Workshop8pm, U&YA fun lifestyle thriller, the mechanic/engineer and graduate of The…

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A loving tribute to pop culture, too: This week’s best podcasts | TV and radio

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🚀 Read this must-read post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Television & radio,Culture ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: Choose the weekRemember me? With Maisie Adam and Scott BryanIt's very easy to make fun of popular culture, too. This series from comedian Maisie Adam and journalist Scott Bryan does the opposite, embracing people who found sudden fame—most of them in the '90s and '00s—and telling their stories with humor and interest. Guests include Liberty Hannah J. DavisWidely available, weekly episodesDon't say a wordA potentially provocative podcast concept: Nicky Campbell uses his decades of hosting radio debates to explore how…

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‘The smell wasn’t healthy’: The artist who wore 24 diapers to highlight sewage pollution – and got sick | Art and design

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✨ Explore this trending post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Art and design,Performance art,Art,Mental health,Culture,Pollution,Sexuality,Environment,Society 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: HeyOn Deptford's foreshore, a terrifying figure is drowning in the River Thames. Performer Zach Mennell (whose name is in lowercase) turns to his belly button as the audience watches. As they descend further down, their mutant costumes — sewn together from 24 adult diapers — swell with water... and waste.Menil's work smears the personal and political all over their bodies. The Times presentation is the conclusion of a project called PARA, which was undertaken in response to revelations…

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Some people see aliens while on DMT. Researchers want to know what they can teach us

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✨ Read this insightful post from Culture Latest 📖 📂 **Category**: Culture,Culture / Digital Culture,Far Out 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: network of EEG electrodes covered Anton Pelton's scalp like a jeweled headdress.The machine will map his brain activity as the powerful psychedelic dimethyltryptamine, known as DMT, flows through an intravenous drip into his bloodstream. With some trepidation, he waited to be immersed in another world that was familiar, given his many years of psychedelic experience, and yet, as was inevitably the case with every DMT trip, completely new.“I didn't know when they were going to turn it on,” he says.…

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Why is public discourse so frustrating now?

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🚀 Explore this insightful post from Culture Latest 📖 📂 **Category**: Culture,Culture / Digital Culture,TMI 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: In late November, Emily did something she hadn't done in a very long time: she went back to Tumblr and started discussing the fandom. especially, Hot competitionCrave Smash's surprise hit series revolves around a love story between two close-minded hockey players, based on a queer hockey romance series that itself began, in part, as gay Marvel fanfiction.In early 2010, Emily, who asked that only her first name be used due to harassment concerns, was a heavy Tumblr user. I went from…

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Dinosaurs Review – Morgan Freeman’s novel is so soothing, you can use it as a relaxation aid | television

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✨ Discover this awesome post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Television,Television & radio,Dinosaurs,Evolution,Culture,Steven Spielberg,Morgan Freeman,Zoology,Palaeontology ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: IIt's hard these days to make a nature documentary that's different from other films. Stunning landscapes, sharp close-up photographs, and tales of predation and survival, birth and death: whether you choose Pixar's Gravity, Crimson Claws, or Eco-Crisis, it's been done 100 times before. Watching The Dinosaurs, it's hard not to feel like the same problem is starting to affect reality shows about the animal kingdom as it has for millions of years. It's amazing that big-money dinosaur documentaries…

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‘I was fascinated by Kate Bush and the Smurfs, so I had great taste’: Diane Morgan’s Honest Playlist | Diane Morgan

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💥 Explore this awesome post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Diane Morgan,Music,Culture 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: The first song I fell in love withMadness baggy pants. I remember thinking it was the coolest thing I'd ever heard, partly because there was a guy in huge pants hanging from the ceiling playing the saxophone on Top of the Pops. Maybe that helped. It was hilarious!First song I boughtSmurfs? I think I just ordered it instead of going out and buying it myself because I was three. Obviously I was fascinated by both Kate Bush and the Smurfs, so…

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Jack White: “I’m not going to put something hurtful for some idiot on the Internet to trample all over the place” | culture

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💥 Discover this must-read post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Culture,Jack White,The White Stripes,Books,Music 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: HeyIn Jack White's Jacket: Collected Words and Selected Writing Volume One, poet and critic Hanif Abdurraqib writes: "I wish I had read more people who talked about Jack White as a writer of words." He makes a good point. White is celebrated as a singer, guitarist, producer, and generator of indelible tunes but not as a wordsmith. His new book, edited by official archivist Ben Blackwell, sets the record straight. Following The White Stripes' Complete Lyrics for 2023 1997-2007,…

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An angry row has broken out over the Madrid location of one of Robert Capa’s most important photographs Robert Capa

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🔥 Read this insightful post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Robert Capa,Photography,Spain,Art and design,Culture 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: HeyOne winter's day nearly 90 years ago, Hungarian-American photojournalist Robert Capa stopped on a street in southeastern Madrid to capture an image that would resonate around the world and down the decades.In the photo, three children sit on a sidewalk filled with rubble in the working-class Vallecas area of ​​the Spanish capital. Behind them lies a simple one-storey house, exposed to shrapnel from a fresh air strike.The image that appeared in the world press not only underscored the civilian…

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Crime and Punishment Review – A captivating portrait of Dostoyevsky’s murderous hero | platform

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🚀 Explore this trending post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Stage,Culture,Theatre,Fyodor Dostoevsky,Doncaster ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: YIt could be said that it was a bold move to present Dostoyevsky's historical novel with a cast of three. And it's not just because Northern Broadsides doesn't typically offer small-scale edits: this studio tour is the first of its kind. More importantly, the 750-page literary classic suggests no such economy of means.However, you could make the case that Laurie Sansom's recast should have been bolder. What would it have been like if the director had gone all out and limited…

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