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“Dirty Deeds” by Gisèle Bellicot’s Memoir: A Week of Enthusiastic Reviews | culture

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🔥 Explore this awesome post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Culture,Television,Film,Books,Music ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: televisionIf you only watch one, do it...Dirty businessChannel 4Summarize in a sentence David Thewlis and Jason Watkins star in this three-part drama that tells the true-life story of two amateur sleuths who helped uncover Britain's horrific sewage scandal.What our reviewer said "Mr. Bates v. Post Office showed how television can incite public disgust at a scandal. If it doesn't do the same, nothing will." Jack SealeRead the full reviewFurther reading Channel 4's 'Dirty Business' is a clarion call to nationalize the water…

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National Year of Reading celebrates the “pleasure” of books. But let’s not forget that it can also be deeply disturbing Charlotte Higgins

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💥 Check out this trending post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Books,Fiction,Culture,Literacy,Education,UK news ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: IIt's National Reading Year in the UK. Specifically, this government-led scheme is about 'reading for pleasure' and 'the joy of reading'. This is not a matter of whim. Research has linked reading for pleasure in childhood to a range of positive educational, social, and economic outcomes. But now – 14 years after the Department for Education, in a more innocent time, commissioned a brooding report on the issue – reading books for pleasure is an activity in crisis. This decline…

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Hard work, romance and bell hooks: How Olivia Deen became Britain’s newest pop star | Olivia Dean

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✨ Discover this insightful post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Olivia Dean,Music,Pop and rock,Culture,Brit awards 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: SToday's Brit Awards will include performances from big-name singers such as Harry Styles and Mark Ronson - but all eyes will be on Olivia Dean, the Londoner who has become one of the UK's biggest breakout artists in years, thanks to her second album The Art of Loving and her UK No. 1 hit single. This year's ceremony, which has been nominated for five awards, is likely to be a coronation for Dean, who has achieved global success…

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From Amarillo to Stockport: 15 of Neil Sedaka’s Greatest Songs and Their Extraordinary Stories | Neil Sedaka

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🔥 Explore this awesome post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Neil Sedaka,Music,Pop and rock,Culture,Carole King 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: Connie Francis – Stupid Cupid (1958)As a busy young songwriter tasked with creating a hit for Connie Francis after the singer had released some flops, Neil Sedaka wasn't so sure about Stupid Cupid: modest to a fault, he suggested that Frances, an "elegant lady," would be insulted by her foolishness. Instead, I literally jumped up and down with excitement when I heard it. Understandably so: if Stupid Cupid is decidedly silly — listen to the off-key guitar riffs…

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The moment Cher dressed up as the ultimate ‘revenge’ star

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🚀 Explore this insightful post from BBC Culture 📖 📂 **Category**: 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: Since then, the phrase "revenge dress" has been increasingly used in celebrity culture. Revenge dresses, as the mainstream understands them, are usually flirty, revealing, and potentially a bit revealing — a reminder of what an ex is missing. In 2014, Rihanna arrived at the CFDA Fashion Awards in a sheer Adam Selman dress that was allegedly a message to her boyfriend, Drake. As she told French Vogue a few years later: "Every time a man cheats on you or treats you badly, you need a…

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Cruz Beckham review – David and Victoria’s son crosses the nepo-baby tag with interesting psych-pop | Pop and rock

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✨ Read this trending post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Pop and rock,Music,Indie,Psychedelia,Culture ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: “M“Souvenirs,” says the person at the door, handing out a souvenir ticket to welcome fans to the Beckham Cruise show in Cardiff, England. It's an inauspicious start, particularly in a building that's been a monument to Welsh-language culture for decades, but once the house lights go down, there's enough to suggest that, even if he never succeeds as a geography teacher, he can give this music thing a decent critique.It would be easy to admire Beckham, the youngest son of…

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DTF St. Louis: This is David Harbor talking about dating apps and infidelity close to the bone | television

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✨ Check out this insightful post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Television,Television & radio,Culture,Jason Bateman,Richard Jenkins ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: toLast October, Lily Allen released a stunning album about the sexual politics surrounding her marriage to actor David Harbour. It was a musical assassination – said to have been written in the wake of her own personal investigation into his long-standing infidelities via the dating app Raya. So the timing of DTF St Louis (Monday 2 March, 9pm, Sky Atlantic), in which Harbor plays a man in a stagnant marriage who downloads a hookup app to enjoy…

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Asako Yuzuki: “I’m very far from the ideal Japanese woman” | Imagination in translation

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💥 Read this must-read post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Fiction in translation,Books,Culture,Fiction 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: TNext time Japanese novelist Asako Yuzuki comes to the UK, she'd like to bake some traditional Japanese cakes for Paul Hollywood on The Great British Bake Off, she says when we meet via video call. It's evening in Tokyo, where she lives with her partner and eight-year-old son. "I've showered and I'm ready for bed," she explained through translator Bethan Jones. She thinks the Bake Off judges will be particularly impressed by the maruburu cakes from Nagasaki. “Kazuo Ishiguro is…

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My cultural awakening: Leonardo da Vinci made me rethink surgery – I’ve since repaired over 3,000 hearts | Leonardo da Vinci

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🚀 Read this awesome post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Leonardo da Vinci,Art and design,Culture ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: IIf I had asked my teenage self, growing up in a small village in Shropshire, what I wanted to do with my life, I would have been talking about art and music long before I was talking about scalpel blades and operating theatres. When I was 18, I was going to go to art school, until my mother sat me down and told me flatly that being an artist wouldn't make me a lot of money. As she…

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TV Tonight: Bill Bailey is an amazing tour guide in Vietnam | TV and radio

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✨ Check out this awesome post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Television & radio,Culture ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: Vietnam Bill Billy7.15pm, Channel 4Amid a deluge of celebrity travel stories, Bill Bailey is actually an entertaining guide as he explores Vietnam (“I think of a sandwich I had in 1982,” he admits during one meditation session). Billy begins in Hoi An, an old international trading port, where he meets Chef Duc - an asylum seeker during the war who is now famous for his food. Next, it's time to get a jazzy suit made by the tailor in…

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