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Taylor Swift casts ‘insanely attractive and lovable’ Graham Norton in music video | Taylor Swift

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✨ Check out this trending post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Taylor Swift,Graham Norton,Music,Television,Television & radio,Culture,UK news,Lewis Capaldi 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: Graham Norton's chat show has long been the subject of fascination with American stars, awed by their combined star power, glasses of wine and Norton's quick-witted, saucy rep - and now Taylor Swift has taken that fandom to another level.Norton was cast in the music video for Opalite, the second single from her album The Life of a Showgirl to receive the music video treatment after The Fate of Ophelia. In fact, it's not just…

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‘Christian pastors declared Pikachu a demon’: How Pokémon went from moral panic to unifying global hit | Pokemon

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✨ Read this trending post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Pokémon,Games,Culture 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: WWhen I was 11 years old, my dream was to compete in the Pokémon World Championships, held in Sydney in 2000. I stumbled upon that dream in a magazine, and then set about in earnest training teams of creatures, transporting them between my Pokémon Red Game Boy cartridge and the 3D arenas of Pokémon Stadium on the Nintendo 64. I never achieved that as a player, but I finally achieved that dream on my 26th birthday, when I went to Washington, D.C.,…

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Cage fights in the White House! Giant bow! Trump’s flashy plans to celebrate America’s 250th anniversary | Build

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💥 Read this must-read post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Architecture,Art and design,Culture,Donald Trump,US politics 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: WWhen the United States celebrated its bicentennial on July 4, 1976, it marked the occasion by opening the Exhibition Hall of the National Air and Space Museum on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. Designed in a bold, modern style by Helmuth's firm, Obata + Kassabaum (now known as HOK), they were a testament to the daring of American aviation, from the Wright Brothers to the moon landing.At the time, although the smell of Republican political shenanigans was…

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Giorgia Meloni’s face on a church fresco is offensive – but not for the reason the Vatican thinks coloring

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✨ Explore this awesome post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Painting,Art,Art and design,Culture,Michelangelo 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: IIt must be the ugliest fresco in Rome – and that's even without the bizarre image of Giorgia Meloni as an angel. Artist Bruno Valentinetti painted a tribute to Umberto II, the last king of Italy, earlier this century in a side chapel of the ancient church of San Lorenzo in Lucena in its historic heart, the Centro Storico. It's the kind of ugly build-up you try to ignore when basking in the city's artistic glories which include, in this…

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It Walksaround the House at Night review – Jump scares and spine-tingling sensations when the pretend ghost gets really spooked | stage

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💥 Check out this must-read post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Theatre,Stage,Culture,Chichester Festival theatre ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: THere's a sparkling irony in Tim Foley's ghost story: An unemployed actor is recruited to play a ghost for a week, only to become haunted himself. Joe (George Naylor) is hired by David, a handsome outsider, to prowl the grounds of Paragon Hall in order to perpetuate the legend of a troubled spirit residing in the countryside.What a great gig – he can pay off his debts with what he earns and exercise his acting muscles. Of course, Joe…

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Classic Mixtape: Takeover Live Review – One Queue After One at Mars Orchestra Festival | classical music

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✨ Read this trending post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Classical music,Culture,Music,Southbank Centre,London Philharmonic Orchestra,Aurora Orchestra,Chineke! Orchestra,The London Sinfonietta,Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment,The Philharmonia Orchestra 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: 'h“Hear music in different ways in our acquisition across locations,” ran a marketing blurb. “You can choose to listen again, skip and move on to another orchestra or pause to catch up with friends at one of our bars.” The idea is to create a live mixtape in which the six world-class orchestras based at the Southbank Center will play a short set, repeated throughout the evening,…

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Sue Perkins’ Eternal Shame review – Bake Off star revels in self-deprecation | comedy

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💥 Check out this awesome post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Comedy,Comedy,Stage,Culture 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: S“Shame” is what Sue Perkins promises us in this return to live comedy after years of absence: her public persona pulled back like layers of a Russian doll to reveal the real, disgraced person underneath. Who wouldn't want to see the former Bake Off star, after "30 years in our living rooms", put on a show like this? But that's not quite what Perkins offers. Like Dawn French before it, in a tour de force intended to show how "silly" she…

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“A Modern Masterpiece”: The Best TV Shows by Jack Thorne – From This is England to Teenage | television

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🚀 Read this awesome post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Television,Culture,Television & radio,Adolescence,This Is England,Drama,Jack Thorne 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: HHe has been hailed as Britain's most industrious writer. Given Jack Thorne's impressive list of credits, it's hard to argue. The prolific playwright and screenwriter's output includes many of the best local television dramas of the past two decades.This is without the numerous plays and films he also wrote. There's more to come, too. Next in Thorne's pipeline is Channel 4's forbidden romance Falling, with Keeley Hawes and Papa Essiedu, and Enola Holmes 3, which will be…

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“It’s trash, women’s team!” Derry Girl Lisa McGee in her hilarious new mystery film | television

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💥 Discover this awesome post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Television,Culture,Television & radio,TV comedy ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: HAre you watching a show about girls in Derry? With one about women in Belfast, obviously. That's what Lisa McGee did. Her new eight-part book, How to Get to Heaven from Belfast, is about as far from Derry Girls as you can get when the distance between worlds is 70 miles along the A6.Or as she says: "I wanted a top-flight Northern Irish team!"Part thriller, part surreal comedy, How to Get to Heaven from Belfast follows Saoirse (Roisín Gallagher),…

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‘We stole the Super Bowl audience’: How In Living Color pulled off the greatest heist in American television history | American television

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✨ Explore this awesome post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: US television,Super Bowl,Sport,US sports,US news,Culture,TV comedy,Comedy,Television,Bad Bunny,Music 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: WWhen the NFL announced Puerto Rican superstar Bad Bunny as the main star of this year's Super Bowl halftime show, it entered straight into a culture war. Right-wing critics were angered by the musician's gender-nonconforming style, Spanish-language music, and anti-MAGA policies. Donald Trump, after saying he had never heard of Bad Bunny, called the headline choice "completely ridiculous."In response, Erika Kirk and her conservative advocacy group Turning Point USA turned the controversy into their own counter-programming…

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