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Ali Smith: “Henry James made me run down the garden path and scream loudly” | books

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💥 Read this trending post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Books,Culture,Ali Smith 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: My first memory is readingI apparently taught myself to read when I was three through the stickers on the Beatles 45's we had: I remember the moment of recognizing the words 'I', 'feel' and 'fine'. It took a little longer to extract the word "Parlophone".My favorite book growing upSister Vincent taught sixth form at St Joseph's School, Inverness, and was a distinguished reader with very good taste, as well as a kind of literary rectitude that meant she removed Enid Blyton…

The Traitors Final Review – Incredibly grueling and bloodthirsty…until the last second | Traitors

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💥 Discover this trending post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: The Traitors,Television,Television & radio,Culture ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: forIt's a damp sneer, this year's traitors. At its best, it was still capable of surpassing the preposterous heights of the previous series, but I spent a long time living with the growing realization that cracks in the format were beginning to show.One of the main reasons, as always, was the mid-episode challenge; A slab of filler designed to kill any trace of intrigue, like the version of 12 Angry Men where the jurors wake up midway through to…

Seductive stitches, Warhol in Nottingham, and a giant Italian igloo – Art Week | Art and design

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🚀 Check out this trending post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Art and design,Culture,Painting,Photography,Art,Exhibitions 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: Exhibition of the weekJessica Rankin This New York artist's abstract works hover between embroidery and painting and have a seductive, lyrical beauty. White Cube Mason Yard, London, from 28 January to 28 Februaryalso appearAndy WarholThe artist who defines America is still captivating, even if Trump's America isn't. Lakeside Arts Gallery, Nottingham, from 24 January to 19 Aprilas long as like it takesAn interesting exploration of how drawing grows from performance art, or vice versa, with Caralie McCall, Janica Perna…

Add to playlist: Haute & Freddy’s 80s-style synth-pop revival and the best new tracks of the week | music

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🚀 Explore this must-read post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Music,Culture,Pop and rock 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: from Los AngelesRecommend if you like Erase, chapel roan, jadethe next Their debut album, Big Disgrace, will be released on March 13Just when you think pop music is finally starting to move away from the heavy '80s, an exciting new chapter comes along to say, "Nope!" With shades of Erasure and a healthy dose of theater kid energy, Haute & Freddy are the Regency-style nerds sending a jolt through TikTok. Their latest single “Dance the Pain Away” is the first…

Delroy Lindo: The Sinners Oscar Nominee Who Could Make Spike Lee’s British Secret Weapon Less Secret | film

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🔥 Check out this insightful post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Film,Delroy Lindo,Sinners,Oscars,British identity and society,Windrush scandal,Culture,Commonwealth immigration,Society,Awards and prizes,Spike Lee,UK news 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: IOn the heels of Oscar nominations, Wunmi Mosaku has been announced as Britain's savior after winning Best Supporting Actress at Hollywood's most prestigious awards. UK was having its first year without a nomination in the acting categories since 1986.But the Sinners star has been joined by fellow cast member, Lewisham-born Delroy Lindo, who will also represent Britain on the big night on March 15.The actor, who was born in south London…

Pierre Novelli: Sit there, I’ll stand here, Review – The masks are so good that resistance is futile | comedy

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✨ Discover this must-read post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Comedy,Stage,Comedy,Culture,Soho theatre ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: pIyer Novelli objects that life is getting harder for observational comedians because, in these isolated times, we have so few common points of reference. It would be a more convincing theory if he didn't start his show with two of the most relatable themes known to comedy, become middle-aged and move to the suburbs. He's smart and funny at both, mind you, and throughout the show, at least for a while, he sticks to familiar '30s tropes: taking care of stacking…

Dijon Review – A dense, dramatic forest of future sound from the Grammy-nominated R&B composer | R&B

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💥 Explore this trending post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: R&B,Pop and rock,Music,Experimental music,Culture 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: Dijon may have sold out two nights at the Brixton Academy, but the first one feels as if the audience is witnessing a joyful jam session between friends: musicians who completely care about each other and are not ashamed of their passion.After an extensive US tour for his acclaimed album Baby - and ahead of next weekend's Grammy Awards, where he is nominated for Producer of the Year thanks to his work with Justin Bieber - the American singer-songwriter…

Lovely review of The Little Lie – F Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald Music Needs Joy | stage

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✨ Explore this awesome post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Theatre,Musicals,F Scott Fitzgerald,Southwark Playhouse,Books,Culture,Stage ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: FOr for decades people have been seeking to rescue Zelda Fitzgerald from her reputation as F. Scott's crazy, bad wife. She was reshaped as a feminist icon – a woman driven to extremes, even imprisoned, by a society and a husband who could not handle her creativity. Some have also attempted to depict Fitzgerald's melodramatic marriage on stage (such as in Craig Revel Horwood's 2004 Beautiful and Damned in the West End), but with limited success. This latest effort,…

Guess how much I love you? Review – A Shattering Portrait of a Pregnancy in Crisis | stage

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✨ Discover this awesome post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Theatre,Stage,Culture,Royal Court theatre,Pregnancy,Parents and parenting,Family 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: TOperating warnings are delivered to us on the card as we enter the hall. For good reason: Luke Norris's play is a harrowing portrait of pregnancy and grief, probing the depths of grief within marriage. But it's not just that. It's funny, deep, and intense without ever becoming exhausting.The play follows a couple in their 30s who remain anonymous, just like their child, as they cope with loss. Their relationship seems to be fueled by an interesting kind…

From Attenborough’s gorilla mayhem to TV’s first gay kiss: the 100 biggest moments from a century of television | Television

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✨ Explore this must-read post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Television,Culture,Television & radio,Television industry,Media,BBC,ITV1,Channel 4,BBC Two,Channel 5 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: 1: 1926 On 26 January John Logie Baird gives the first public demonstration of television to members of the Royal Institution, from his lab in Soho. The subject of the demonstration was Stooky Bill, Baird’s ventriloquist dummy, because the lighting generated too much heat for a human to bear.2: 1930 Luigi Pirandello’s play The Man With the Flower in His Mouth, about a man dying of cancer, becomes the first drama shown on British television, broadcast…