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Ray’s Review โ€“ A dazzling display of a range of old-fashioned Vegas dances to European dance | opinion

Ray’s Review โ€“ A dazzling display of a range of old-fashioned Vegas dances to European dance | opinion

๐Ÿš€ Check out this must-read post from Culture | The Guardian ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: Raye,Pop and rock,Soul,Dance music,Music,Culture ๐Ÿ’ก **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: HeyIn the medley poster for this tour, Rae pledged that her concerts would feature everything from dramatic endings to jazz via a nightclub segment, a brass band, and "musical medicine for the needy."New music is also promised. Ahead of her upcoming album This Music May Contain Hope, she teased its contents from the beginning with the song โ€œI Will Overcome.โ€ Dressed in a long faux fur coat, leather gloves and sunglasses, Rae looks like a film noir heroine…
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โ€œLike an electric bell pigeon!โ€ Sheffield supermarket goes viral due to the symphonic sound of its refrigerators | music

โ€œLike an electric bell pigeon!โ€ Sheffield supermarket goes viral due to the symphonic sound of its refrigerators | music

๐Ÿš€ Check out this must-read post from Culture | The Guardian ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: Music,Pop and rock,Experimental music,Electronic music,Culture,Sheffield,UK news ๐Ÿ’ก **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: THere's a new sound sweeping Sheffield. You won't find it at one of the city's eclectic jazz nights; Nor in any of its clubs or live music venues. You'll find it in the back aisle of the Co-op supermarket on Ecclesall Road.โ€œHas anyone noticed how great the freezers at Eccy Road Co-op sound?โ€ someone wrote on a Sheffield Reddit page in January. โ€œIt's as if all the fans have been carefully tuned to the quietest chord…
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โ€œA cry of pain from every musicianโ€: The new reality for musicians in Ukraine | music

โ€œA cry of pain from every musicianโ€: The new reality for musicians in Ukraine | music

โœจ Discover this trending post from Culture | The Guardian ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: Music,Classical music,Culture,Valery Gergiev,Ukraine,Europe,World news ๐Ÿ’ก **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: IIt begins with a literal scream, a cry of pain from every player in the orchestra. Ukrainian composer Anna Korsun's piece Terricone is one of the most shocking creative works of the war that began four years ago this month. Korsun was born in Donbass, where slag heaps from the mining industry bear witness to the way humanity has always reshaped the landscape. Her piece was premiered by the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra and its then principal conductor, Ukrainian Kirill…
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Why critics mocked Beryl Cooke’s “saucy” paintings

Why critics mocked Beryl Cooke’s “saucy” paintings

๐Ÿ”ฅ Read this must-read post from BBC Culture ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: โœ… **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: Beryl Cook's cheerful, kitschy, bawdy paintings were beloved by the British public but ridiculed by the art establishment. One hundred years after her birth, a new exhibition calls for a radical re-evaluation of her work and legacy.By all accounts, Beryl Cook's career path has been impressive. A self-taught artist, she did not pick up a paintbrush until her late 30s and was 49 when she had her first exhibition. But by the time of her death in 2008, aged 81, Cook had created more than…
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Scare Out Review โ€“ Director Zhang Yimou’s twisty spy thriller delivers eye-catching stunts and futuristic technology | film

Scare Out Review โ€“ Director Zhang Yimou’s twisty spy thriller delivers eye-catching stunts and futuristic technology | film

๐Ÿ”ฅ Explore this must-read post from Culture | The Guardian ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: Film,Thrillers,Action and adventure films,Zhang Yimou,China,Asia Pacific,Culture,World news โœ… **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: forIn the 1980s and 1990s, Zhang Yimou (Ju Du, Raise the Red Lantern) rose to fame as one of the most talented directors to emerge from China's "fifth generation," filmmakers whose work broke with the socialist realist style of their predecessors. While the fifth generation was still working within the establishment industry, they were viewed to varying degrees if not completely dissident, or at least somewhat innovative and anti-authoritarian. Either way, having started out as a…
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Review of Maria Stepanova’s The Disappearing Act – A Poetic Exploration of Russian Guilt | imaginary

Review of Maria Stepanova’s The Disappearing Act – A Poetic Exploration of Russian Guilt | imaginary

โœจ Discover this trending post from Culture | The Guardian ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: Fiction,Books,Culture ๐Ÿ’ก **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: Ma 50-year-old novelist who lives in an idyllic setting next to a lake, travels to a literary festival to give a lecture. A series of events, most of them beyond her control, leave her stranded in an unfamiliar town. It's completely quiet, except for the traveling circus that camps out on the outskirts. M enters a hotel, ignores her phone and wanders around, remembering the books she has read, the films she has seen, and the museums she has visited. Some of…
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Gordon Ramsay review – Did we really need six hours of him preparing restaurants? | TV and radio

Gordon Ramsay review – Did we really need six hours of him preparing restaurants? | TV and radio

๐Ÿ”ฅ Read this awesome post from Culture | The Guardian ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: Television & radio,Culture,Television,Gordon Ramsay,Documentary,Factual TV,Business TV,Food,Restaurants,Hospitality industry ๐Ÿ’ก **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: SNine hours of advertising yourself on Netflix and - presumably - getting paid to provide streaming content at the same time? Nice job if you can get it, and Gordon Ramsay got it. Being Gordon Ramsay, Part 6 โ€“ Six part โ€“ A documentary that follows the TV chef as he embarks on his most ambitious project yet. It's a "huge undertaking", "high risk, high reward", "a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity", and "one of my last stakes on…
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Frederic Wiseman, documentary filmmaker, dies at 96 Frederic Wiseman

Frederic Wiseman, documentary filmmaker, dies at 96 Frederic Wiseman

๐Ÿ”ฅ Explore this awesome post from Culture | The Guardian ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: Frederick Wiseman,Documentary films,Film,Documentary,Culture,US news โœ… **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: Frederick Wiseman, the prolific director whose documentaries primarily explored American public institutions and societies, has died at the age of 96.His death was announced Monday in a joint statement from Weisman's family and his production company, Zipporah Films.โ€œOver nearly six decades, Frederick Wiseman has created an unparalleled body of work, a comprehensive cinematic record of contemporary social institutions and ordinary human experience primarily in the United States and France,โ€ the statement read. โ€œHis films โ€“ from Titicut Follies (1967)…
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TV Tonight: Inside the Lives of Distinguished Cancer Surgeons | television

TV Tonight: Inside the Lives of Distinguished Cancer Surgeons | television

๐Ÿ”ฅ Check out this awesome post from Culture | The Guardian ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: Television,Television & radio,Culture,Film โœ… **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: surgeon9pm on Channel 5Not for the faint of heart, this new series follows the lives of working surgeons, starting with bowel cancer specialist Darren Francis. His first patient was retired nurse Doris, who had worked in the NHS for 50 years, and had been suffering from severe abdominal pain for two weeks. In addition to performing a sensitive and risky procedure, Francis invites cameras into his home and talks candidly about what it's like to tell someone they have…
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โ€˜I felt betrayed, nakedโ€™: did a prize-winning novelist steal a womanโ€™s life story? | Books

โ€˜I felt betrayed, nakedโ€™: did a prize-winning novelist steal a womanโ€™s life story? | Books

โœจ Read this awesome post from Culture | The Guardian ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: Books,Algeria,Emmanuel Macron,Islam,Africa,Middle East and north Africa,Religion,World news,Culture ๐Ÿ“Œ **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: Every November, leading figures of French literature gather in the upstairs room of an old-fashioned Paris restaurant and decide on the best novel of the year. The ceremony is staid, traditional, down to the restaurantโ€™s menu, full of classic dishes such as vol-au-vents and foie gras on toast. In pictures of the judging ceremony, the judges wear dark suits; each has four glasses of wine at hand.The winner of the Goncourt, as the prize is called,…
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