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Review of Two Women Living Together by Kim Hana and Hwang Sunwoo – Best-selling Korean book about platonic partnership | books

Review of Two Women Living Together by Kim Hana and Hwang Sunwoo – Best-selling Korean book about platonic partnership | books

💥 Explore this must-read post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Books,Autobiography and memoir,Essays,Culture ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: WWhen Sanwoo and Hana met on Twitter, they were both in their 40s and single. They both grew up on the beachfront in Busan, and studied in Seoul before entering the city's famously brutal rat race, Sunwoo as a fashion journalist, and Hana as a copywriter. They shared the same taste in music and books, and most importantly, they both refused to marry. No wonder. In South Korea's stubborn patriarchal culture, women in dual-income families spend nearly three hours more…
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Pike River Review – Families fight for justice in a true-to-life story of a New Zealand mining disaster | film

Pike River Review – Families fight for justice in a true-to-life story of a New Zealand mining disaster | film

✨ Check out this trending post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Film,Drama films,New Zealand,Mining,Period and historical films,Asia Pacific,Business,Culture,World news 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: IIt seems unlikely that the wheels of justice would ever have moved after the Pike River mine disaster in New Zealand, which claimed the lives of 29 men in 2010, had it not been for the actions of the grieving families. This sobering, realistic drama is a detailed account of their years-long struggle for justice. The story is told with restraint, with precise detail — and perhaps too much detail — without any Erin…
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Grizzly Night Review – Animal attack campsite thriller featuring rogue bears and wayward teens | film

Grizzly Night Review – Animal attack campsite thriller featuring rogue bears and wayward teens | film

💥 Check out this must-read post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Film,Thrillers,Horror films,Culture,World news,Wildlife 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: DDespite the stark poster art, as a bear rampage film, it's closer to the serious end of the Grizzly Man/Timothy Treadwell scale, than Cocaine Bear. Based on a bizarre tragedy in August 1967 in which two women were killed separately by grizzly bears in Montana's Glacier National Park (described here as a "trillion-to-one" incident), Burke Dorrien's feature debut is coherent to the teeth, but considerably less certain when it comes to people.In the park, fire season is everything the…
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Neil Young gives Greenland free access to his music and pulls it from Amazon because of Trump | music

Neil Young gives Greenland free access to his music and pulls it from Amazon because of Trump | music

✨ Explore this trending post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Music,Neil Young,Culture,Greenland,Amazon 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: Neil Young has donated a year's worth of access to his music and documentary archive to the people of Greenland after the territory's future became the subject of a fraught dispute with the US.“I hope my films and musicals will relieve some of the unwarranted stress and threats faced by our unpopular and hopefully temporary government,” Young wrote in a statement on his website, Neil Young Archives, which provides comprehensive access to the 80-year-old songwriter's recorded and live catalogs."It is my…
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‘I didn’t have anything to prove’: What Traitors finalist Jade Scott learned about surviving video games | games

‘I didn’t have anything to prove’: What Traitors finalist Jade Scott learned about surviving video games | games

🚀 Discover this trending post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Games,Culture,Television,The Traitors,Television & radio,Simulation games 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: TThe latest series of The Traitors, which concluded last week with a thrilling finale, featured some of the usual characters - from naive extroverts to a Columbus wannabe who endlessly watches his fellow contestants for the slightest glimmer of betrayal. But one believer stood out for her calm determination, despite the constant onslaught of doubts and accusations. That character was Jade Scott, and I wasn't at all surprised when she revealed very early in the series that she…
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Do you know the result? I don’t read music, but that’s no barrier to reimagining great classics | classical music

Do you know the result? I don’t read music, but that’s no barrier to reimagining great classics | classical music

🔥 Read this must-read post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Classical music,Folk music,Culture,Music,Britten Sinfonia,Gustav Holst,Robert Macfarlane 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: II'm a harmonica and accordion player and one half of the classic folk duo Stevens and Pound. As a multi-instrumentalist, I am rooted in oral, aural, and community folk traditions. Music and songs are transmitted by ear, either through recordings or – which is more enjoyable – traditional music sessions. Here, instrumentalists and singers come together to share, exchange and play tunes, drawing from an ever-evolving repertoire. While groups of melodies Their scores certainly serve as a…
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The action intensifies as one battle after another receives 14 BAFTA nominations to Sinners’ 13 | Baftas 2026

The action intensifies as one battle after another receives 14 BAFTA nominations to Sinners’ 13 | Baftas 2026

🔥 Discover this insightful post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Baftas 2026,Film,Culture,Baftas,One Battle After Another,Sinners ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: Sinners may have made history last week, when it became the first film ever to receive 16 Oscar nominations, but it was its awards season rival, One Battle After Another, which proved to be a narrow winner in Tuesday's Bafta nominations.Paul Thomas Anderson's countercultural comedy heads into the competition with 14 nominations, while Ryan Coogler's vampire thriller has 13 nods. Meanwhile, Marty Supreme and Hamnet are close behind in nominations with 11 each, while Frankenstein and Sentimental Value…
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Witchboard Review – A New Orleans couple channels a dead French witch in a fun, dark thriller | film

Witchboard Review – A New Orleans couple channels a dead French witch in a fun, dark thriller | film

🚀 Read this must-read post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Film,Horror films,New Orleans,US news,Culture,World news 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: CAmy Campbell Bower gave a breakout performance as the Big Bad in Season 4 of Stranger Things, and in this hilariously entertaining thriller, like the devil himself, he's back to his old scene-stealing tricks. Again, he's not the protagonist but a villainous character he first meets literally in the shadows, and he makes ominous statements in that posh boyish accent. When he was finally revealed, he was dipping his chin and looking up with those exotic blue eyes…
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Pikachu and his pals go wild: Pokemon theme park opens in Tokyo | games

Pikachu and his pals go wild: Pokemon theme park opens in Tokyo | games

🔥 Check out this awesome post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Games,Pokémon,Culture,Theme parks,Japan 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: IIn Japan, February is typically a period of quiet contemplation, a month marked by winter festivals in the snow-capped mountains of Sapporo and staving off the cold in steaming hot springs. Traditionally, international tourists start arriving as the flowers bloom in spring, but thanks to the opening of the first Pokémon theme park on February 5 this year, they'll likely come early.Unlike the rollercoaster-filled thrills of Tokyo DisneySea or Universal Studios Japan in Osaka, Pokepark Kanto is essentially a forest…
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Laura Lima: Sketch Review – If everything’s on wheels, why isn’t this show going anywhere? | art

Laura Lima: Sketch Review – If everything’s on wheels, why isn’t this show going anywhere? | art

🔥 Read this must-read post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Art,Installation,Art and design,Culture,Drawing,ICA 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: HeyOne of the worst things contemporary art can make you do is think seriously about stupid things. Sure, sometimes a urinal is beautiful, a shed is interesting, and an empty room is a container for endless ideas. But sometimes, it doesn't have a deeper meaning worth searching for. Sometimes it's a little silly.Brazilian conceptual scientist Laura Lima prefers to describe this as absurd. Her show at the ICA – her first UK solo show despite decades of international exhibitions and…
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