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“I’ll Finish Your Job”: One Woman’s Fight for Jewish Art and the Letters Her Mother Saved from the Nazis | UK News

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🚀 Read this must-read post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: UK news,Holocaust,Second world war,Judaism,Czech Republic,Czechoslovakia,Europe,World news,Art,Art and design,Culture 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: TIt has survived the Nazis, been confiscated by the Communists, and for the past three decades has been closely guarded, bound by red tape, by a museum in the Czech Republic. Given the attention of overzealous Czech customs guards and the vagaries of the British weather, a happy outcome was in doubt until the end.But last Thursday, a small suitcase filled with 681 drawings, love letters, poems and manuscripts created by Jewish artist and poet…

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Clive Merry’s African Adventure review – A fantastic show full of fun, joy and hope | television

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🚀 Read this awesome post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Television,Television & radio,Culture,Clive Myrie,Africa 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: AAfter decades as a BBC journalist, and more recently one of the corporation's most popular news presenters, you might associate Clive Merry with more serious endeavours. In fact, it was a little disturbing to see him – just a few hours before presenting his latest Trump-flavored bulletin last Tuesday – reclining on the One Show sofa to promote his latest travel writing, declaring himself a “warrior god.” Although this last pivot may seem unlikely (he previously presented Clive Myrie's…

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Kanye West issues full-page ad apologizing for anti-Semitic behavior and denying he is a Nazi | Kanye West

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💥 Discover this trending post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Kanye West,Music,Culture,Rap,Antisemitism,Bipolar disorder,Mental health 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: Kanye West took out a full-page ad in the Wall Street Journal apologizing for his anti-Semitic behavior. “I am not a Nazi or an anti-Semite,” he wrote. "I love the Jewish people."In a letter titled “To Those I Have Hurt,” he attributed his inflammatory actions, including making highly offensive statements and selling T-shirts bearing swastikas, to bipolar-1 disorder, which he said developed as a result of medical oversight failing to diagnose a frontal lobe injury he suffered in a…

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Eric Huntley obituary | Black British culture

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🚀 Read this must-read post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Black British culture,Newspapers & magazines,Media,Books,Poetry,Culture 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: Eric Huntley, who has died aged 96, was the co-founder with his wife Jessica of the radical publishing house Bugle Louverture, which was founded in London in 1968 to showcase black writing talent. Initially run in a print shop in a living room in west London, the project soon outgrew those temporary premises, and in 1975 became the Bogle L'Ouverture bookshop, establishing itself as a community center and informal advice center as well as a place to buy…

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Submit a review Help – Sam Raimi returns with a fight to survive after a blood-filled plane crash | film

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✨ Read this awesome post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Film,Sam Raimi,Horror films,Rachel McAdams,Culture,Comedy films,Comedy 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: SAm Raimi returns with this violent black comedy written by Damien Shannon and Mark Swift, set on a desert island where two plane wreck survivors face off. It's a film whose initially entertaining premise and clever sarcasm are finally damaged by Raimi's need to liven things up with faux "horror" flourishes for the fanbase, and on-brand gore explosions that aren't really scary and undermine the film's credibility, turning the whole thing into silliness. The poster and promotional materials…

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‘We get a lot of requests to use it in sex scenes’: How Goldfrapp made Ooh La La | culture

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🔥 Check out this trending post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Culture,Music,Goldfrapp,Electronic music 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: Allison Goldfrappco-member, writer, producerThis song was an ode to great rock music. My older sister was a huge fan of Marc Bolan, and her passion for him and his voice really attracted me. I love the sound effects and drum sounds on those old recordings.However, I couldn't think of a lyric for the chorus, and I thought to myself: "What do I need?" We had just been to France, hence the “Ooh la la,” but we wondered if that would…

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Black Cakes and Branded Buckets: Welcome to the Premiere of Brett Ratner’s Melania | Melania Trump

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💥 Read this trending post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Melania Trump,Film,Culture,Documentary films,Documentary,US news,World news 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: This week sees the release of Melania, Amazon's official feature documentary about Melania Trump. Melania is directed by Brett Ratner, and has a production budget of $40 million. Obviously, you probably won't watch it.Of course you are not. Days after the murder of Alex Peretti by a US Border Patrol agent, a trashy, licensed project about the current wife of an unpopular world political leader – run by a man accused of sexual assault by multiple women, and…

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Nigella Lawson has been confirmed as a new British judge on Bake Off | television

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🔥 Discover this insightful post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Television,The Great British Bake Off,Nigella Lawson,Food TV,Culture,Television & radio ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: Nigella Lawson has been announced as a new judge on The Great British Bake Off. She replaced Prue Leith, who quit after nine seasons of judging contestants' culinary creations, so she could spend the summer enjoying her garden, explaining: "I'm 86 years old!"Lawson will join the program for its next series, its seventeenth, which will launch later this year. She will work alongside Paul Hollywood, who will continue in the role he has held…

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‘The most stressful TV experience ever’: Alex Honnold and the potential rise of death as live entertainment | television

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🔥 Explore this trending post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Television,Culture,Television & radio,Netflix,Extreme sports,Sport,Taiwan,Asia Pacific,Rock climbing 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: WWell, have your balls left your body yet? Skyscraper Live has disappeared from Netflix, and it may qualify as the most stressful viewing experience ever. Alex Honnold's unassisted ascent of 508 meters at Taipei 101 was an absolutely extraordinary achievement. But whether or not it represents the future of television is a different matter entirely.Honnold's work is already well known. As the star of Free Solo — a feature-length, again nerve-racking documentary that the only way to…

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Sadiq Ali Company: ‘Tell Me’ review – A poignant story of sex, hijinks, and a belly-up in the middle of the 1980s AIDS crisis | Dance

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🔥 Read this insightful post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Dance,Stage,Culture,Aids and HIV ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: IIn the show's memo for "Tell Me," its creator Sadiq Ali says that 2025 was the year he would have been expected to die from AIDS-related complications, if not for advances in medicine. Instead, here he was, muscular and strong, wrapped around a Chinese pole, suspending himself in the air, his belly glistening.Ali is also thriving as an artist. His latest show, The Chosen Haram, received five-star reviews, and he has just officially launched his own circus/theatre company. This new…

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