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Handcuffed: The Last Pair of Standing Review – an insult to all involved, not least Jonathan Ross | television

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🔥 Read this awesome post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Television,Television & radio,Culture,Jonathan Ross,Reality TV,Channel 4 ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: AFollowing his brilliant Machiavellian performance in The Celebrity Traitors, Jonathan Ross is set to appear on our screens again soon. He celebrated his big post-Traitors party, hosting Channel 4's new six-part 'social experiment'. Ross explains that this series is about whether “Britain is divided or not.” [can] 'Settle their differences', by handcuffing two strangers from different walks of life together for 24 hours a day (including in the shower - ouch!) and seeing who can last the…

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DTF St Louis Review – An addictive tale of middle age, swinging, and murder | television

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💥 Read this must-read post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Television,Television & radio,Culture,Jason Bateman 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: nAlways trust the man who rides a recumbent bike. That seems to be the first lesson offered by DTF St Louis, a new seven-part black comedy starring Jason Bateman, David Harbor and Linda Cardellini, and who - frankly - could fail to back up such a message?Bateman plays Clark Forrest, a local meteorologist, celebrity and biker lounging around his little patch of St. Louis, Missouri. He becomes fast friends with a sign language interpreter, Floyd (Harbour), when they are…

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Rosa Garland: Primal Bog Review – A Slippery Dive into Desire with Tattoo Live | platform

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🔥 Check out this must-read post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Stage,Comedy,Comedy,Culture,Gwyneth Paltrow,Soho theatre,Theatre,Clowns,Performance art 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: 'IIt's divisive." Well, you might think so, a "weird performance art" clown show with nudity, bodily fluids, maggots and Gwyneth Paltrow. However, Primal Bog left the Edinburgh fringe last year with praise ringing in the ears of its creator Rosa Garland. To the degree that Garland is a winning and fearlessly provocative performer, I'm happy to join the chorus. But - hey, it's divisive - I didn't find the show as divisive as some in the audience. It's…

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Stardew Valley at 10: The anti-capitalist game that tackles burnout and inspires queer art | games

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🔥 Check out this must-read post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Games,Culture,Indie games ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: WHen farming sim Stardew Valley debuted in 2016, and was considered by most of us to be a modest indie success, offering charm, wit, and a beautiful little world. Ten years later, this little indie game has sold nearly 50 million copies. If you haven't played it yourself, you've probably seen someone playing it on the train (or, in the case of one of my musical theater colleagues, in the dressing room between scenes). As we discussed on the Tech…

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‘We were just amazed’: Mindset like anything has its highs and lows – and hits the road again | Australian music

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🚀 Check out this awesome post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Australian music,Pop and rock,Music,Culture 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: AAmong the many surreal moments in the opening scenes of Live It Up: The Mental As Anything Story are shots of tens of thousands of Scottish football fans singing the lyrics of an Australian pop song like a war chant.“We were blown away by it... and were reasonably happy that suddenly tens of thousands of Glaswegians were singing it,” says guitarist Reg Mombasa as he pours coffee in the kitchen on the veranda of his Glebe home. Rangers…

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‘He worked on his speech in French for months’: Cesar Awards boss rejects Jim Carrey clone conspiracy theories | Jim Carrey

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✨ Discover this awesome post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Jim Carrey,Film,Culture,France,World news,Europe,Awards and prizes 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: The organizer of the Cesar Awards has sought to refute reports that a look-alike replaced Jim Carrey at last week's ceremony.In a statement sent to Variety on Monday, Gregory Collier, Caesars' general representative, said the controversy was a "non-issue" and attested to Carey's investment in the event, which has been in the planning since last summer.“From the beginning,” Collier wrote, “he was deeply moved by the academy’s call.” “Eight months of continuous and constructive discussions. He worked on…

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‘Donald Trump of Ancient Egypt’: Ramesses II’s vanity is on full display in new exhibition | Exhibitions

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💥 Check out this insightful post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Exhibitions,Art and design,Culture,Egyptology,Archaeology,Tutankhamun,Museums 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: TThe mummy of Egypt's most ambitious pharaoh, Ramesses II (often spelled Ramesses), is a masterpiece of mummification. The astonishingly preserved 3,000-year-old face and proud beaked nose look much as they did when he died aged 90 or 91, having ruled for 66 years, fathered more than 100 children, beaten back his enemies and made ancient Egypt great again. And that's even before you notice how his hand seems to reach forward to eerily seize power from beyond the grave.I…

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LSO/Wang/Peltokoski Review – Yuja Wang’s ferocious Rautavaara meets Peltokoski’s passionate Wagner | classical music

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🚀 Discover this must-read post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Classical music,Culture,Music,Barbican,London Symphony Orchestra 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: MWith Yoga Wang at your own risk. For anyone still doubting her mood after last week, here she is, exploding into the solo part of Enuguhani Rautavaara's 1969 Piano Concerto No. 1. It is a massive work that requires a great deal of physical strength – at several points the soloist almost attacks the keyboard, hitting the keys in clusters or using the forearm to shape the melody. Wang was formidable, and Rautavaara's dense writing provided a perfect showcase…

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Brave Bettie Review – One night for a daring duo to save a mighty oak tree | stage

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🔥 Read this insightful post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Theatre,Children's theatre,Environment,Activism,Stage,Culture 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: TTwo stories intertwine in Tatenda Naomi Matsavai's new play, rooted in the natural world. The first is a folk tale, read downstage by schoolgirl Betty, about Bida Moyo, who protects her Zimbabwean kingdom from “men with a sword” and rescues an injured lioness. The second is Bettie's own nighttime adventure, accompanied by Paida Moyo, to save a cherished oak tree from falling as part of the evil local council's plans for a new car park.The back story is delivered with the…

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Saturday Night Live Bafta sketch described as ‘horrific’ by leading Tourette’s syndrome charity | Saturday Night Live

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🚀 Explore this awesome post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Saturday Night Live,US television,Television & radio,Television,Culture,JK Rowling,Mel Gibson,Film,Tourette syndrome,Health,TV comedy,US news 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: Saturday Night Live is under fire over a sketch that mocked the Bafta N-word incident, with a leading Tourette's Syndrome (TS) charity branding it "horrific".Filmed in the style of an informative public service announcement, the clip featured the SNL cast members as public figures explaining that their controversial comments were due to TS. The sketch was cut for a time on NBC's Saturday night show but was uploaded to YouTube shortly after.Andrew…

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