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Gloria Doesn’t Speak by Lucy Apps Review – A Tender Portrait of a Woman with Learning Disabilities | books

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🚀 Check out this trending post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Books,Fiction,Culture ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: toucy Apps' debut novel tells the story of 19-year-old Gloria, who lives in east London with her mother in the summer of 1999. Gloria has learning difficulties and is past the age at which the state can support her. She's often happy enough to "stop outside where it's nice and busy, watch things happen and be a part of it."But sometimes people steal her, or shout abuse at her. She then has a "heavy feeling inside" because she has no choice…

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The RSC music scores fundamentally detract from our experience in the theatre Royal Shakespeare Company

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💥 Discover this insightful post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Royal Shakespeare Company,Music,Theatre,Classical music,Culture,Stage 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: nThe news that the Royal Shakespeare Company is making cuts to its music department, shrinking one of the last bastions of theatrical music composition, production and performance from a team of seven to four, appears to be the latest alarm for the place of live music and musicians in theatre. The RSC's cost savings come at a time when orchestras for touring shows and West End musicals have been reduced from orchestral forces to a handful of players. Who…

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TV Tonight: Crufts with Claudia Winkleman and Claire Balding | TV and radio

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🔥 Explore this trending post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Television & radio,Culture 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: Croft 2026At 2.30pm on Channel 4Claudia Winkleman knows a thing or two about maintaining a shiny black mane, and joins Claire Balding on day two of reporting from the country's biggest dog show. Highlights will include the best useful and toy dogs, as well as the agile feats of the musical dogs participating in the international freestyle competition. The Scruffts Awards are also given to hybrid breeds, with categories including most handsome and golden. Holly RichardsonGladiators8pm, BBC OneThis revival of…

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War Machine review – Netflix bravely asks: What if it was Predator but Transformers? | Action and adventure films

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💥 Explore this trending post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Action and adventure films,Netflix,Film,Culture,Science fiction and fantasy films,Thrillers ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: YYou'd be forgiven for skipping Netflix's gory military thriller War Machine at this very moment. After all, there's an actual war raging (is there ever a right time, one might argue?) but those behind the film are likely to use its science fiction as a defense of differentiation. The war raging here is not between the United States and a foreign terrestrial entity, but rather a war from somewhere above, our thousand soldiers against aliens.…

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James Acaster Review – Stand in Great Form with a Tangled Tribute to the Same | comedy

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💥 Check out this must-read post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Comedy,James Acaster,Comedy,Culture,Stage 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: 'II am the UK's #1 James Acaster tribute act! says Craig Simmons, standing on stage in a shiny blazer and tuxedo shirt. But Simmons is at a crossroads, tired of Acaster's mental health material, but doomed once he repeats it — at least until he finally launches a standup career of his own. That's the conceit of this new touring show featuring a performer who we assume is the real James Acaster - although based on his 2014 show (later…

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I had a front row seat at Blur v Oasis – here’s what a new play and a baffling mistake brought about | stage

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🔥 Read this trending post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Theatre,Britpop,Oasis,Blur,Music,Pop and rock,UK charts,Stage,Culture,Birmingham Rep,Damon Albarn,Liam Gallagher,Noel Gallagher 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: "At this point, it's Israel/Palestine. Rangers/Celtic. Nobody remembers how it started. All they know is, 'I like this team and I don't like that team.' The whole country is going crazy. That's what happens in a civil war – everyone starts thinking about blood."IIn a new play titled The Battle, these words are spoken by the fictional Damon Albarn, as he leads his band Blur into a contest with Oasis for summer No. 1 and…

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Hockney passes through Bayeux, Brideshead is revisited, Stubbs leads the field – The Week in Art | Art and design

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🚀 Explore this must-read post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Art and design,Culture,Painting,Photography,Art,Exhibitions 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: Exhibition of the weekStubbs: Picture of a HorseGeorge Stubbs' sentimental and mesmerizing Whistlejacket is truly one of the best-loved paintings in the National Gallery. This exhibition takes a closer look at what makes his paintings of horses so memorable. National Gallery, London, from 12 March to 31 Mayalso appearDavid HockneyImages from his time in Normandy, reflected in the Bayeux Tapestry and more. Serpentine North Gallery, London, from 12 March to 23 AugustSir John Vanbrugh A look at the stunning imagination…

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Add to Playlist: Maximum Sadness by Hannah Liu and Best Tracks of the Week | music

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💥 Discover this must-read post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Music,Culture 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: from Richmond, CaliforniaRecommended if you like Molly Nelson, Chromatics, Wonders of the 70s and 80sthe next The self-titled debut album was released on April 10For those of us who can't resist the allure of melancholy pop music, Californian artist Hannah Liu is set to become a new obsession. Soon to be released via Night School Records – home to the likes of Tristwch Y Fenywod and Teresa Winter – Lew’s self-titled debut is one of those albums that could easily be a…

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Best Modern Poems – Review Report

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💥 Explore this must-read post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Poetry,Books,Culture 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: Gravity Archives by Andrew Motion; Rabbitbox by Wayne Holloway Smith; Strange Buildings by J.L. Williams; I Know Some Things by Richard SickenThe Gravity Archives by Andrew Motion (Faber, £12.99)From his 1978 debut to his award-winning elegies for Princess Diana and the Queen Mother, death has been Motion's central preoccupation. And for good reason: his mother's accidental fall from the horse and subsequent premature death catalyzed an unflinching elegiac pattern, in which the poet was a chronicler of loss—and by extension, love. But…

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Artist, design director and fashion designer: V&A organizes Schiaparelli retrospective | fashion

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✨ Read this insightful post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Fashion,Haute couture shows,V&A,Exhibitions,Art and design,Culture,Life and style,Museums,UK news 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: WWhen Kylie Jenner stood on the marble steps of the Petit Palais in 2023, a fake lion's head pinned to her off-the-shoulder dress, even by the standards of the youngest member of the Kardashian clan, the outfit looked a bit much.Kylie Jenner in January 2023, Paris. Photo: Laurent Vaux/Siba/Rex/ShutterstockSchiaparelli's head and dress were hand-painted for lifelike realism, and were designed by Daniel Roseberry of Texas. Although it's already been four years since she took over…

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