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“She’s so motherly!” Why older women prevail over traitors | Traitors

“She’s so motherly!” Why older women prevail over traitors | Traitors

๐Ÿš€ Check out this must-read post from Culture | The Guardian ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: The Traitors,Television & radio,Culture,Television ๐Ÿ’ก **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: WWednesday's episode of The Traitors was explosive: Matthew's recruitment deal with traitors Steven and Rachel is "confirmed," James steals a shield, and Rachel reveals "FBI training." But let it be known, if I ever go missing, I want Harriet Tice to be on the case. Her behavior was nothing short of Shakespearean โ€“ dropping the undercover writer and criminal lawyer bombshell, summoning Rachel against the dramatic backdrop of a Gothic church, putting her on trial in public over…
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The Eurovision Song Contest will go on tour to celebrate its 70th anniversary | Eurovision

The Eurovision Song Contest will go on tour to celebrate its 70th anniversary | Eurovision

๐Ÿ”ฅ Explore this trending post from Culture | The Guardian ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: Eurovision,Music,Television & radio,Culture,Europe,World news ๐Ÿ“Œ **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: The Eurovision Song Contest will go on its first ever tour to celebrate its 70th anniversary, its organizer said, as it suffers a boycott over Israel's participation.Five countries withdrew from the competition over Israel's war on Gaza, leaving 35 countries to take part in the world's largest live music event - the smallest number since participation expanded in 2004.The European Broadcasting Union (EBU) said on its website on Thursday that the tour scheduled for June and July will bring…
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Harry Styles has announced his fourth solo album, Kiss All the Time. Disco, sometimes | Harry Styles

Harry Styles has announced his fourth solo album, Kiss All the Time. Disco, sometimes | Harry Styles

๐Ÿ”ฅ Read this must-read post from Culture | The Guardian ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: Harry Styles,Music,Culture,Pop and rock ๐Ÿ’ก **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: After a brief teaser in which billboards around the world promised โ€œWe belong togetherโ€ and โ€œSee you very soon,โ€ Harry Styles has announced his fourth solo album.Kiss all the time. Disco, Sometimes will be released on March 6. It was produced by Kid Harpoon, the British songwriter and producer who worked on all of Styles' previous albums. The artwork shows the 31-year-old pop star wearing sunglasses and bending under a disco ball that appears to be suspended in the…
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Diary of a Degenerate: Mapping Music and Madness by Carlo Gesualdo | classical music

Diary of a Degenerate: Mapping Music and Madness by Carlo Gesualdo | classical music

โœจ Check out this insightful post from Culture | The Guardian ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: Classical music,Culture,Music ๐Ÿ’ก **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: CArlo Gesualdo wrote some of the darkest and most sublime music of the late Renaissance. He also brutally murdered his wife and her lover in their bed. Now be honest: What do you want to discuss first?Art will always be secondary to brutality, no matter how wonderful madrigals and sacred music may be. Gesualdo, Prince of Venosa, had been cuckolded by the Duke of Andrea in a long-running endeavor that became tantamount to tampering with the court. The premeditated double…
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Audiobook review of H Is for Hawk by Helen Macdonald – A Soaring Journey Through Grief | books

Audiobook review of H Is for Hawk by Helen Macdonald – A Soaring Journey Through Grief | books

โœจ Read this awesome post from Culture | The Guardian ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: Books,Audiobooks,Culture,Birds,Wildlife โœ… **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: IIt has been up to 12 years since the publication of H Is for Hawk, about the time historian, writer and naturalist Helen MacDonald spent training a Eurasian goshawk after an intense period of grief. The book, which won awards, was a huge success and sparked a literary trend for transformative encounters shared with animals including cats, dogs, magpies and hares.This month, H Is for Hawk comes to the big screen in a new film adaptation starring Claire Foy. But there is…
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โ€œShortly after my baby was born, a bottle of champagne came from Alanโ€: Readers remember Alan Rickman | film

โ€œShortly after my baby was born, a bottle of champagne came from Alanโ€: Readers remember Alan Rickman | film

โœจ Discover this awesome post from Culture | The Guardian ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: Film,Alan Rickman,Die Hard,Robin Hood,Theatre ๐Ÿ’ก **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: He pointed to my wife and laughed.One of the highlights of my late wife's life was Alan Rickman. Returning to university in Manchester in the mid-1990s for a new semester, she was trying on a huge suitcase full of books (she spoke English). When she was able to put this thing on, she had a balance error, so she fell backwards and lay on the platform, shaking her arms and legs like an upside-down turtle, unable to move.Alan Rickman…
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Melissa Leo: Winning the Oscar wasn’t good for me or my career | Melissa Liu

Melissa Leo: Winning the Oscar wasn’t good for me or my career | Melissa Liu

๐Ÿš€ Explore this awesome post from Culture | The Guardian ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: Melissa Leo,Film,Culture,The Fighter,Television ๐Ÿ“Œ **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: Why didn't you insist on the "Denzel has to kiss" scene in my movie Equalizer? Neflik47Well, if I go back to the first equalizer, it comes to my character asking permission to do its own 'equality'. You were his boss and trained him, so kissing him would be completely inappropriate. However, if someone is looking forward to seeing me kiss Mr. Washington, please whisper it in his ear.I heard you're a big fan of knitting. What is your greatest knitted…
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โ€‹โ€™How do you really tell the truth about this moment?โ€™: George Saunders on ghosts, mortality and Trumpโ€™s America | Books

โ€‹โ€™How do you really tell the truth about this moment?โ€™: George Saunders on ghosts, mortality and Trumpโ€™s America | Books

๐Ÿ”ฅ Explore this insightful post from Culture | The Guardian ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: Books,George Saunders,Fiction,Booker prize,Culture ๐Ÿ’ก **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: Like his first novel, Lincoln in the Bardo, which won the Booker prize in 2017, George Saundersโ€™s new novel is a ghost story. In Vigil, an oil tycoon who spent a lifetime covering up the scientific evidence for climate change is visited on his deathbed by a host of spirits, who force him to grapple with his legacy. What draws Saunders to ghost stories? โ€œIf I had us talking here in a story and I allowed a ghost in from…
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‘It’s always been bleak – but it’s gotten darker’: How the industry became the most nightmarish show on TV

‘It’s always been bleak – but it’s gotten darker’: How the industry became the most nightmarish show on TV

๐Ÿ”ฅ Check out this awesome post from BBC Culture ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: ๐Ÿ“Œ **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: The HBO banking drama has just begun its fourth series, with more fanfare and a more star-studded cast than ever before. It also takes its story โ€“ and its characters โ€“ to chilling new places.In 2020, a new drama about a group of postgraduate bankers trying to make their way in London's high finance scene was broadcast for the first time on television. At the time, the biggest story about the joint HBO and BBC Industry series was that the first episode was directed…
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I’m Anne Lee, and this is my testimony about the mental scramble of sharing your name with a movie character film

I’m Anne Lee, and this is my testimony about the mental scramble of sharing your name with a movie character film

โœจ Check out this trending post from Culture | The Guardian ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: Film,Culture,Musicals,Michael B Jordan ๐Ÿ“Œ **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: TThe messages started over a year ago. โ€œI'm blown away by the title,โ€ my cinephile friend Matt texted me, along with a tweet announcing a new musical called Anne Lee, starring Amanda Seyfried and directed by Mona Fastvold, about the leader of the 18th-century Shaker movement. Why would the good news of the film please him so much? Well, because my name is Anne Lee too."Yes! Fame at last!" I answered. I have responded in a similar way to…
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