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From You, Me and Tuscany to Ecstasy: Your Complete Entertainment Guide for Next Week | culture

From You, Me and Tuscany to Ecstasy: Your Complete Entertainment Guide for Next Week | culture

🚀 Check out this trending post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Culture,Music,Stage,Dance,Theatre,Film,Television,Television & radio,Art,Art and design,Games ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: Checkout: cinemaYou, me and TuscanyOut nowWhere would a romantic comedy be if everyone told the truth? When impulsive chef Anna (Halle Bailey) talks about her engagement in order to justify her presence in an abandoned villa in Tuscany, a train of events that leads to true love begins - naturally. RegĂ©-Jean Page and Nia Vardalos co-star.StrangeOut nowIn the 1930s in Algiers, a young man, Meursault, commits a murder. The premise will be familiar to Albert Camus' Journey…
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The Secret Garden of Score: Week of Enthusiastic Reviews | culture

The Secret Garden of Score: Week of Enthusiastic Reviews | culture

đŸ”„ Check out this awesome post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Culture,Television,Film,Books,Music 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: televisionIf you only watch one, do it...Secret GardenBBC One/iPlayer, available nowSummarize in a sentence Ahead of his 100th birthday, David Attenborough presents a fascinating series about his love of the wildlife of our British back gardens. What our reviewer said “Although the animals are familiar old friends, the program tells the kind of exciting stories of predation, survival, mating and nesting that we are used to when Attenborough is in Africa or Asia.” Jack SealeRead the full reviewFurther reading 'We didn't…
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TV Tonight: Paul McCartney reopens the great Beatles mystery | TV and radio

TV Tonight: Paul McCartney reopens the great Beatles mystery | TV and radio

🚀 Explore this awesome post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Television & radio,Culture 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: McCartney: Searching for the Lost Bass8.45pm, BBC2He bought his Höfner bass ("about ÂŁ30!") in 1961 during the Beatles' formative years. But the instrument that had become synonymous with Paul McCartney disappeared around the time the Beatles split up and went on a journey of their own. With contributions from several "Bass Detectives" (and from Macca himself), this documentary about the search for the machine is another angle to a well-told story. Phil HarrisonSuitable ladies7.45pm, BBC 3Tomorrow's star? ...Suitable Ladies on…
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I swapped England for Seoul after watching a K-drama – and found myself cast in a K-pop video | culture

I swapped England for Seoul after watching a K-drama – and found myself cast in a K-pop video | culture

✹ Read this must-read post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Culture 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: TThe first time I discovered South Korea was during a Mandarin homework mishap in 2013. I was 16 and lacked all the characteristics required to be good at languages: confidence, a thick skin, and any desire to speak out loud. I had to choose a language, and Mandarin seemed like the best choice for me – with my self-proclaimed photographic memory, I spent hours cramming complex Chinese characters, convincing myself that I could pass my exams without uttering a single word. i…
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Margot is having financial problems: Elle Fanning and Michelle Pfeiffer star in this comedy banned from OnlyFans | television

Margot is having financial problems: Elle Fanning and Michelle Pfeiffer star in this comedy banned from OnlyFans | television

đŸ’„ Explore this insightful post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Television,Television & radio,Culture,Elle Fanning 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: I I promise, it's the title that attracted me to it. Margo's Got Money Troubles is a new show on Apple TV (out Wednesday), starring Elle Fanning as a single mother who becomes an OnlyFans model. It joins a niche list of similarly frank titles about public impediments. To wit: Fleishman is in trouble; Big problem in little China. But Margo's Got Money Troubles is better. Check assonance and rhythm. It has a wonderful texture, to borrow a word…
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Sabrina Carpenter in Coachella Review – The Insane Extremes of Pop Savant | Coachella

Sabrina Carpenter in Coachella Review – The Insane Extremes of Pop Savant | Coachella

đŸ’„ Discover this insightful post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Coachella,Sabrina Carpenter,Music,Festivals,Culture ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: WHarking back to the good old days of spring 2024, pop singer Sabrina Carpenter ended her first set at Coachella with a bold promise: “He drinks my bath water like it's red wine / Coachella, see you back here when I'm headlining,” she tweeted as part of the always moody closing lines of her song Nonsense. Carpenter is a popular performer — her music, full of double-entendres and funny one-liners, is as much musical comedy as pop — but it seems,…
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From Peepo! to Middlemarch: 25 books to read before you turn 25 | Books

From Peepo! to Middlemarch: 25 books to read before you turn 25 | Books

đŸ’„ Check out this awesome post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Books,Culture,Fiction,Children and teenagers,Young adult 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: The news about reading in general, and childhood reading in particular, is not good. Last year a National Literacy Trust survey of more than 100,000 young people between the ages of 11 and 18 discovered that the number of children who read for pleasure is the lowest since records of this sort began. Only about a third of children say they actively enjoy reading, and the number who report reading daily in their free time is has halved…
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Eamonn Holmes recovers in hospital after suffering a stroke television

Eamonn Holmes recovers in hospital after suffering a stroke television

đŸ”„ Discover this insightful post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Television,Culture,UK news,GB News,Media,Television & radio,ITV 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: TV presenter Eamonn Holmes is recovering in hospital after suffering a stroke.A spokesman for GB News, where Holmes presents the breakfast show alongside Ellie Costello, said the Northern Irish presenter fell ill last week. He is said to be responding well to treatment.The spokesperson added: "Eamonn has requested privacy as he is focused on improving. His colleagues and everyone at GB News wish him a speedy recovery and look forward to welcoming him back to People when he…
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The terrifying twist of drama is set to divide audiences

The terrifying twist of drama is set to divide audiences

đŸ”„ Read this trending post from BBC Culture 📖 📂 **Category**: 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: The drama is not the first film to deal with high school massacres: notable examples include Gus Van Sant's "Elephant" (2003) and Lynne Ramsay's "We Need to Talk About Kevin" (2011). The difference here is that Christopher Burgeli, the Norwegian writer and director, sets the subject in what is essentially a comedy, despite its title. The drama has a taboo-busting Scandinavian feel reminiscent of the provocative social satire of Ruben Östlund ( Triangle of Grief ), Lukas Moodysson ( Together ), and Thomas Vinterberg (…
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The origins of current fantasy fiction go back centuries

The origins of current fantasy fiction go back centuries

✹ Read this must-read post from BBC Culture 📖 📂 **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: Fallen angels and demigodsDebate continues over what exactly fairies are - fallen angels, demigods, and human spirits - and some see their ancestors as the likes of Lilith. Possibly originating from Mesopotamia, Lilith is adopted in some Jewish folk traditions as the first wife of Adam who was expelled from Eden after demanding to be his equal. She has sex with men, often while they are asleep, in order to get pregnant. Lilith is often associated with Lamia, a character from Greek mythology. Lamia also…
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