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Philip Glass withdraws the world premiere of his Lincoln Symphony from the Kennedy Center | Philip Glass

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💥 Discover this must-read post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Philip Glass,Trump administration,Classical music,US politics,Music,Culture,US news 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: Philip Glass, the famous American composer, has withdrawn the world premiere of his latest symphony at the John F. Kennedy Center in Washington, DC, in protest against the presidency of Donald Trump."After thoughtful consideration, I have decided to withdraw Symphony No. 15 'Lincoln' from the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. Symphony No. 15 is a portrait of Abraham Lincoln, and the values ​​of the Kennedy Center today are in direct conflict with the message…

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Marilyn Manson: US judge reopens sexual assault case against musician | Marilyn Manson

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✨ Discover this must-read post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Marilyn Manson,Music,Los Angeles,Culture,US news,Pop and rock,Metal 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: A Los Angeles judge has reinstated a lawsuit against heavy metal star Marilyn Manson under a new law that allows old sexual assault cases to be heard in court.The lawsuit, filed in May 2021 by a former assistant to the musician, was dismissed in December because it exceeded the statute of limitations, which is the maximum time period for initiating legal proceedings after the relevant events occur.But prosecutor Ashley Walters asked the court to reconsider her case…

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TV Tonight: The Apprentice returns to Hong Kong for its 20th season | television

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🔥 Discover this trending post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Television,Television & radio,Culture,The Apprentice,BBC,Reality TV,Media,Dragons' Den,Drama,TV crime drama ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: trainee9pm, BBC OneIt's admirable how Alan Sugar, now in his twentieth year, continues to deliver contestants who are more insufferable than the latter group. To celebrate the anniversary, he brought the first winner, Tim Campbell, to the panel along with Karen Brady. What's even more exciting is that the first mission takes place in Hong Kong, where teams have to locate nine items. Notice the same people who bragged about having brains that wander around…

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The Only Living Pickpocket in New York review – John Turturro steals this simple, charming tale | Sundance 2026

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🔥 Read this awesome post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Sundance 2026,John Turturro,Crime films,Film,Culture,Sundance film festival,Festivals 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: nThe light crime noir The Only Living Pickpocket in New York is a film obsessed with the gap between old and new. There are shared memories of how things used to be, and some of the older characters refuse to keep up with digital advances, while there are eye-rolls from the younger generation, poking fun at those who have lost touch with how the world works now. I'd argue that the subject matter is often a little…

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Wonder Man Review – A Marvel TV show that has almost no superhero action…and it’s all the better for it | television

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💥 Read this must-read post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Television,Television & radio,Culture,Marvel,Ben Kingsley,Drama,Superhero TV 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: WWe're back in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. If you feel fatigue creeping up on you already, kick it out! It will be fine. Even though Wonder Man revolves around (in my unbelievable estimation) the 30th MCU series produced by Marvel Television and its companions — from the dizzying heights of WandaVision to... well, She-Hulk — it's a little gem.Which is very little in MCU terms. Not only are the eight episodes long, but they also eschew spectacle in…

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Placebo makes its stage debut with the score for a Brecht production by the Royal Shakespeare Company Pop and rock

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✨ Discover this awesome post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Pop and rock,Music,Culture,Stage,Theatre,UK news,Mark Gatiss,Royal Shakespeare Company ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: Alt-rockers Placebo are set to collaborate with the Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC) by recording a new production of Bertolt Brecht's play The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui.The play, written in 1941, is about a Chicago mobster who seeks to control the city's vegetable trade through corruption, intimidation and violence: an obvious allegory for how Adolf Hitler came to power during the 1930s.Mark Gatiss, known for The League of Gentlemen, Sherlock and more, will play Ui in…

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Strongroom Review – The hard-hitting thriller is a great 1960s British crime picture | film

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🔥 Read this awesome post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Film,Thrillers,Crime films,UK news,Culture 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: VErnon Sewell's excellent British crime thriller from 1962, co-written by veteran screenwriter Richard Harris, is now being re-released. It's a powerful black-and-white suspense thriller, leading to a thrillingly bleak final shot. It is, in fact, a B-movie, one of the tentpole features that once constituted a complete evening's entertainment: a cheap and cheerful genre, which, though often terrible, occasionally frees talented people to create great, unheralded works, and whose importance to the history of cinema has been demonstrated by the…

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Review of David Bowie and the Search for Life, Death and God by Peter Ormerod – The Making of a Modern Saint | Autobiography books

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💥 Check out this awesome post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Biography books,David Bowie,Books,Pop and rock,Culture,Music 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: It has become popular among fans to say that everything went wrong in the world after Bowie's death in 2016. This also misses the point: rather than being one of the last avatars of the liberal order that collapsed around our ears, Bowie foreshadowed the chaos that took its place.In his last years, he believed that we had entered a region of chaos and fragmentation. This is what allowed him to be so prescient about the Internet—not…

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No. 1 for nuns! Niall McLaughlin is one of architecture’s daredevils – and deserving of its highest award Build

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🚀 Discover this trending post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Architecture,The RIBA,Art and design,Culture ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: WWhen Niall McLaughlin was shortlisted for the Stirling Prize in 2013, for his design of a stunning jewel-like chapel for a theological college near Oxford, he brought his client with him to the awards ceremony. This was the first (and perhaps the last) time that a group of Anglican nuns had graced such a spectacle.Despite having God on his side, he lost out that year, but was eventually awarded the Stirling Prize in 2022, for the New Library at…

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Review of The Puma by Danielle Wells – A profound story of cyclical violence | books

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🔥 Discover this awesome post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Books,Fiction,Culture 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: WWhen the protagonist of Daniel Wiles's debut novel, Mercia's Take, set in a mining community during the Industrial Revolution, leaves a bag of gold in the basement unprotected and then goes to bed, I actually close the book, trying to stop the unfolding disaster. After finding this stitch of gold, miner Michael dreams that his son can go to school, instead of joining the other children who work in the mine, like "blind, hairless rodents digging themselves for scraps of candlelight." In…

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