๐ Check out this must-read post from Culture | The Guardian ๐ ๐ **Category**: The Traitors,Television & radio,Culture,Television ๐ก **What Youโll 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…
๐ฅ Explore this trending post from Culture | The Guardian ๐ ๐ **Category**: Eurovision,Music,Television & radio,Culture,Europe,World news ๐ **What Youโll 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…
๐ฅ Read this must-read post from Culture | The Guardian ๐ ๐ **Category**: Harry Styles,Music,Culture,Pop and rock ๐ก **What Youโll Learn**: After a brief teaser in which billboards around the world promised โWe belong togetherโ and โSee 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…
โจ Check out this insightful post from Culture | The Guardian ๐ ๐ **Category**: Classical music,Culture,Music ๐ก **What Youโll 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…
โจ Read this awesome post from Culture | The Guardian ๐ ๐ **Category**: Books,Audiobooks,Culture,Birds,Wildlife โ
**What Youโll 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…
โจ Discover this awesome post from Culture | The Guardian ๐ ๐ **Category**: Film,Alan Rickman,Die Hard,Robin Hood,Theatre ๐ก **What Youโll 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…
๐ Explore this awesome post from Culture | The Guardian ๐ ๐ **Category**: Melissa Leo,Film,Culture,The Fighter,Television ๐ **What Youโll 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…
๐ฅ Explore this insightful post from Culture | The Guardian ๐ ๐ **Category**: Books,George Saunders,Fiction,Booker prize,Culture ๐ก **What Youโll Learn**: Like his first novel, Lincoln in the Bardo, which won the Booker prize in 2017, George Saundersโs 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? โIf I had us talking here in a story and I allowed a ghost in from…
๐ฅ Check out this awesome post from BBC Culture ๐ ๐ **Category**: ๐ **What Youโll 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…
โจ Check out this trending post from Culture | The Guardian ๐ ๐ **Category**: Film,Culture,Musicals,Michael B Jordan ๐ **What Youโll Learn**: TThe messages started over a year ago. โI'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…
