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‘Stabbed in the Face soundtracked an incredibly joyous time’: the weirdest songs we find romantic | Music

‘Stabbed in the Face soundtracked an incredibly joyous time’: the weirdest songs we find romantic | Music

💥 Read this must-read post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Music,Valentine's Day,Culture,Pop and rock,Experimental music,Electronic music,John Lydon,Gary Numan,Amy Winehouse,Einstürzende Neubauten,Leona Lewis,Stephen Malkmus,Public Image Ltd 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: Wolf Eyes – Stabbed in the FaceBy Easter 2004, I’d been in a relationship with my partner, Maria, for four months and I was just realising how deeply in love I was. We had become inseparable. A magazine sent me to the ATP festival at Pontins in Camber Sands to interview “the Beastie Boys of noise”, Wolf Eyes. The interview fell to pieces when the band, in a state…
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‘I took it down one little house at a time’: Trucker who spent decades building tiny replica of New York City | art

‘I took it down one little house at a time’: Trucker who spent decades building tiny replica of New York City | art

🔥 Discover this must-read post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Art,New York,US news,Art and design,Culture 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: IIn 2003, Joe McCain built a scale model of a bridge out of popsicle sticks. He wanted it to look like a "hybrid" of the Brooklyn, Manhattan, and Williamsburg Bridges. Soon after, McCain, who grew up in Middle Village, Queens, moved his family to a small town upstate, more than 160 miles from the city. McCain loaded his bridge onto the moving truck. Didn't make the trip.“It was destroyed, and I felt kind of upset,” said McCain, now…
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‘Regrets? Number one: smoking. Number two: taking it up the wrong hole’: Tracey Emin on reputation, radical honesty – and Reform | Tracey Emin

‘Regrets? Number one: smoking. Number two: taking it up the wrong hole’: Tracey Emin on reputation, radical honesty – and Reform | Tracey Emin

🚀 Explore this must-read post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Tracey Emin,Art,Art and design,Culture 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: There is a long buildup before I get to see Tracey Emin – her two cats, Teacup and Pancake, preceding her like a pair of slinky sentries as she walks into the white-painted basement kitchen of her huge Georgian house in Margate. The lengthy overture is because – though I’ve been invited for noon – Emin is a magnificently late riser. Her average working day, her studio manager Harry tells me, runs from about 6pm to 3am. And so, while…
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PETA calls for pork-free menus as Peppa Pig show begins in Grimsby | Children’s theater

PETA calls for pork-free menus as Peppa Pig show begins in Grimsby | Children’s theater

✨ Discover this awesome post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Children's theatre,Peppa Pig,Television & radio,Theatre,Farm animals,Stage,Peta,Culture,Vegan food and drink,Veganism,Vegetarian food and drink,Vegetarianism,Life and style,Food,Children's TV,Lincolnshire,UK news,Farming,Environment,Animal welfare,Animals 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: Campaigners are calling on theater bosses to stop serving bacon, sausages and ham in their cafes - at least while Peppa Pig and her family are performing in the same building.Grimsby Auditorium in Lincolnshire said this week it would remove pork from the menu when Peppa Pig's Big Family Show opens next month, following a request from People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (Peta UK).…
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My Cultural Awakening: “Thirteen affected my enjoyable youth, until a psychotic episode ended it” | culture

My Cultural Awakening: “Thirteen affected my enjoyable youth, until a psychotic episode ended it” | culture

💥 Read this trending post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Culture,Film 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: AAt the age of 13, it felt like almost overnight, I went from a happy, musical theater-loving kid to a sad, lonely teenager. The things I cared about only yesterday suddenly became irrelevant, as I realized that nothing and no one mattered, least of all me. It is a worry that adults often have difficulty remembering or understanding; As the famous line from the movie The Virgin Suicides says: “Clearly, Doctor, you were never a 13-year-old girl.”When I went to an all-girls…
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How America’s Next Top Model turned into a horror TV show

How America’s Next Top Model turned into a horror TV show

✨ Read this trending post from BBC Culture 📖 📂 **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: Looking back at it with a 2025 lensIt will be interesting to see how the concept of the show changes again with the streaming of the Netflix series. Banks takes the opportunity to express some remorse for what happened: "I knew I went too far. I lost her..." she says of her infamous moment of rage. Mock also feels remorse: “I take full responsibility for this photo shoot,” he says of the popular “Crime Scene” challenge. "It was a mistake. I look back now and…
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‘There’s only one bed’, ‘fake dating’ and ‘opposites attract’: how tropes took over romance | Romance books

‘There’s only one bed’, ‘fake dating’ and ‘opposites attract’: how tropes took over romance | Romance books

🚀 Check out this must-read post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Romance books,Books,Fiction,Culture ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: Opposites attract. He falls first. Coffee shop. Forced proximity. Sports romance. University sports romance. Ivy League university sports romance! Best friend’s brother. Brother’s best friend. Slow burn. Age gap. Amnesia. Wounded hero. Single father. Single mother. Language barrier. The bodyguard. Fake dating. Marriage of convenience.If this list means nothing to you, you’re not a romance reader. Tropes, as these bullet-point ideas have come to be known, have taken over romance. Those who write, market and read romantic fiction use them…
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Add to playlist: Natanya’s amazingly beguiling music and this week’s best new songs | music

Add to playlist: Natanya’s amazingly beguiling music and this week’s best new songs | music

🔥 Explore this insightful post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Music,Culture,Pop and rock 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: from LondonRecommend if you like Rochelle Jordan, Rags Original, Sailorthe next New music is scheduled to be released later this yearNatanya tears down literary genres and reconstructs them in her own image. Its drums swing loosely and energetically over heavy 80s music. The synths drift in dreamily before gravitating into bold guitar riffs. Writing, producing and arranging all of her own work, she weaves together the silkiness of neo-soul, R&B groove, indie edge, and flashes of grunge, all carried by…
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The Best Modern Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror Movies – Review Report | books

The Best Modern Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror Movies – Review Report | books

💥 Check out this trending post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Books,Culture,Fantasy books,Horror books,Science fiction books 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: Nowhere to Burn by Catriona Ward (Viper, £16.99)The talented horror/crime thriller combines supernatural, psychological and very human horror in a story that draws on elements ranging from Peter Pan to historical serial abusers. It wasn't anywhere located in a remote American mountain valley. When it burned, the horrific crimes committed by Hollywood star Liv Wenham against young people were revealed. Later, runaway children turned the valley into a fortress, living on food they could catch or grow,…
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TV TONIGHT: Take it off! Take it off! He’s the ultimate masked singer TV and radio

TV TONIGHT: Take it off! Take it off! He’s the ultimate masked singer TV and radio

🚀 Check out this awesome post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Television & radio,Culture ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: The Masked Singer7pm on ITV1Moth, Toastie, and Conkers are the three great finalists! Harry Hill, Kate Nash and John Lydon have all been unmasked and booted from the competition so far - but who are the celebrities behind the latest masks? Who will be crowned the winner? Samantha Barks is the guest judge, and former faces Lionfish, Pufferfish and Snail return in three unique duets. Holly RichardsonNavigating the Shipping Forecast with Pastor Richard Coles7pm on Channel 4It's a nice…
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