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Gerry Sewell Review – A Tragic Search for Newcastle United Season Ticket | stage

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✨ Check out this trending post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Theatre,Stage,Culture,West End,Newcastle United,Football,Comedy,Comedy ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: THis story of two miscreants in Gateshead, who dream of securing a Newcastle United season ticket by hook or crook, epitomizes hope in the face of adversity. Adapted from the award-winning book (which also became the film Purely Belter), this play has its own rags-to-riches story. Written and directed by Jamie Eastlake, the film begins in a 60-seat social club on North Tyneside in 2022. Now, here it is in the West End, full of colorful characters, and biting,…

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‘He was, above all, a treasured spirit, who understood how vital music is for the human soul’: tributes to Andrew Clements | Classical music

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🚀 Explore this trending post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Classical music,Culture,Music,Opera 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: I owe Andrew Clements big time. He wrote so positively about my music early in my career and the last article he wrote was singling out my opera Festen for special praise. He did seem to go off me a bit in mid career but he was such a serious and thoughtful critic that I often agreed with him. I got to know him very well in the late 90s as he was the partner of the librettist and translator Amanda…

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‘Soon I will die. And I’ll Go With a Great Orgasm: The Last Rites by Alejandro Jodorowsky | Alejandro Jodorowsky

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💥 Check out this must-read post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Alejandro Jodorowsky,Film,Culture ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: THere's an apocryphal story of Orson Welles introducing himself to guests in a half-empty city hall. “I am an actor, writer, producer and director,” he said. "I'm a magician and I appear on stage and on the radio. Why are there so many of me and so few of you?"If a fantasy author dreams of Welles's psychedelic cousin, he'll likely have the air of Alejandro Jodorowsky: quiet, white-bearded with a crocodile grin, presiding over a specialized group of disciples. He…

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Add to playlist: Dark Mist by Los Angeles saxophonist Aaron Shaw and this week’s best new songs | music

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🔥 Check out this insightful post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Music,Culture,Jazz 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: from Los AngelesRecommend if you like Miguel Atwood Ferguson, flute music by Chabaca Hutchings, and Coltranethe next The debut album And So It was released on February 13For woodwind players, breath is everything: the artistic life force, the thing that gives the sound character. But a few years ago, Los Angeles saxophonist Aaron Shaw realized he was becoming increasingly breathless. In 2023, when he was 27, he was diagnosed with bone marrow failure, meaning he wasn't producing enough red blood cells…

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CBSO/Yamada Review – Trombone Moore’s Adventures in Fujikura’s Sound Oceans | classical music

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🔥 Read this trending post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Classical music,City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra,Culture,Music 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: TRombon concertos don't come along every day. The last time the Cinderella of the brass section had a big moment in the spotlight was in 2022, when the concert band hosted its first trombone solo in nearly 20 years. Before then, you have to go back to 2008 to make headlines - when a dazzling 12-year-old broke records as the youngest ever winner of the BBC Young Musician Award. Trombonist in each case? Peter Moore.Now, with a…

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A$AP Rocky: Don’t Be Dumb review – A catchy and fun comeback, but not a slam dunk | A$AP Rocky

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✨ Read this awesome post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: A$AP Rocky,Music,Culture,Rap 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: IIt's been eight years since A$AP Rocky, the one-time king of New York rap, released an album. In the world of hip-hop, where even A-list stars like Rocky's friend and collaborator Tyler, The Creator tend to release multiple albums a year, that's age. Around the time Rocky released his third album, 2018's Test, Kanye West had rebranded himself as a born-again Christian and veered to the right. and He released five albums. Rocky has not been sitting around: he has been…

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Juliana Barwick and Mary Lattimore: Tragic Magic Review – Tragedy and Hope in a Dreamlike Mist | Experimental music

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✨ Discover this trending post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Experimental music,Music,Culture 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: AAfter years of touring together, Los Angeles-based composers Juliana Barwick and Mary Lattimore have developed what the former refers to as “musical telepathy.” Tragic Magic, the duo's first collaborative album, proves this bond: born from a short series of improvisational sessions in Paris, it's a wonderfully immersive collection of new age and ambient tracks, where Barwick's airy, reverent vocals and atmospheric synths intertwine and highlight Lattimore's shimmering guitar.Artwork for Tragic Magic The album sessions took place shortly after last year's California…

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The Crying Game: What the Hamnett Debate on Grief and Porn Says About Women, Cinema, and Colossal Falcons | film

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🔥 Explore this must-read post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Film,Death and dying,Culture,Hamnet,Chloé Zhao,Jessie Buckley,Paul Mescal,Claire Foy,Benedict Cumberbatch,Women,Bereavement,Society 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: 'IIs it porn or is it art?” A familiar question, even an old one, where nudity is concerned, and (excuse the thumbnail) well resolved - that is to say: we leave it to the tastemakers to decide, which tips the scales towards 'art' if one or both of the protagonists are not good looking.“Is it grief porn or is it grief art?” is a more puzzling question. Sadness porn, in relation to cinema, may indicate…

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‘We’re a Hot Topic’: Is an Intimacy Coordinator the Most Misunderstood Job in the Film Industry? | film

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🚀 Read this insightful post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Film,Mikey Madison,Gwyneth Paltrow,Jennifer Lawrence,Florence Pugh,Sex,Life and style,Culture 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: WWhen intimate coordinator Adelaide Waldrop is asked about her job at parties, she considers lying. “I thought about saying I was an accountant,” she says. When the truth is revealed, the response is always unnatural. There are questions about erections, merks, and inappropriate celebrities. "Or there's a lot of, 'Oh, we could use one of you at home with me and my lady,' and questions about my sex life," Waldrop adds. "We're a hot topic."Lately, the…

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TV tonight: David Baddiel gives cats the TV show they deserve | television

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🔥 Read this awesome post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Television,Television & radio,Culture,David Baddiel,Graham Norton,Greg Davies,Carey Mulligan,Ben Affleck,Matt Damon ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: David Baddiel: Cat Man8pm on Channel 4Why are there no TV shows about cats? David Baddiel—the proud owner of Zelda, Tiger, Ron, and Pip—corrects this with a surprisingly poignant three-part ode to all things feline. First, he meets fellow cat fans Jonathan Ross (cat-dad to Badass Beccleson and Maude Ross) and Philippa Perry (cat-mum to Kevin). After that, it's time to paddle with Bongo the tabby. And will Larry Downing Street - now 18…

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