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‘We can find renewal despite the bullshit we deal with as black women’: Kelela on Stan’s armies and speaking up for Gaza | Kilila

‘We can find renewal despite the bullshit we deal with as black women’: Kelela on Stan’s armies and speaking up for Gaza | Kilila

๐Ÿ’ฅ Discover this awesome post from Culture | The Guardian ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: Kelela,Pop and rock,Electronic music,Culture,Music ๐Ÿ“Œ **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: MMore than most musicians in a typical promotional cycle, Kelela has been popping up on my social feeds in increasingly surreal sets. In one clip, she blows kisses to a huge crowd of onlookers in the streets of SoHo, New York; Another saw her posing for fans against a fog-filled background somewhere between the video game South Central and the survival game Silent Hill. In the Clue 1 video, the singer walks down a hallway with windswept silver hair,…
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Fun Home Review โ€“ Alison Bechdel’s Musical Memoir Feel All the Feelings | Musicals

Fun Home Review โ€“ Alison Bechdel’s Musical Memoir Feel All the Feelings | Musicals

๐Ÿ”ฅ Read this must-read post from Culture | The Guardian ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: Musicals,Theatre,Stage,Culture,Royal Exchange,Alison Bechdel ๐Ÿ“Œ **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: TThe "fun" in the title is shorthand for "funeral," a reference to the company that handles the business inherited by Alison Bechdel's father. But there's some fun, too, in this heartfelt musical adaptation of the cartoonist's graphic memoir. First shown in the UK in 2018 and now brought to life by director Sarah Frankcom in a seamless theatrical production, it brings a light touch to an emotional story.The graphic novel, published in 2006, describes the author's sexual awakeningโ€”she kisses a…
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‘People treat each other as disposable’: Dating columnist turned novelist Annie Lord on love and sex in the age of apps | imaginary

‘People treat each other as disposable’: Dating columnist turned novelist Annie Lord on love and sex in the age of apps | imaginary

๐Ÿ”ฅ Discover this awesome post from Culture | The Guardian ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: Fiction,Romance books,Dating,Books,Culture ๐Ÿ’ก **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: TThis is a scene in Annie Lord's novel that will be instantly familiar to any young person who has spent time in a bar or nightclub recently. Daisy and Maya, two best friends in their mid-twenties, lament the seedy state of the dating market.โ€œIt's just bullshit,โ€ Daisy says. โ€œEvery time we go out, there's one respectable single man, and then about 40 gorgeous women with master's degrees and shaggy haircuts, and what's the point of trying.โ€โ€œThis fits perfectly with my experience...dating…
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The Importance of Being Serious Review – Gloriously Mad Opera Reaches New Heights of Delirium | Opera

The Importance of Being Serious Review – Gloriously Mad Opera Reaches New Heights of Delirium | Opera

๐Ÿ”ฅ Read this must-read post from Culture | The Guardian ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: Opera,Garsington Opera,The Philharmonia Orchestra,Music,Culture,Classical music,Gerald Barry ๐Ÿ“Œ **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: AAnyone who has ever seen an opera will recognize the long rack of white dinner plates, stacked and set out to see what you know. Anyone familiar with Oscar Wilde's play will recognize its lines, which composer Gerald Barry turned into a kind of staccato mash-up of speech and song. But in Jack Furness's new production of Barrie's The Importance of Being Earnest at Garsington Opera, familiarity is otherwise avoided.Barry has already transformed Wilde's "frivolous comedies for…
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โ€œUnchained Melody makes me want to live out Swayze fantasiesโ€: Gary Jarmanโ€™s honest playlist | music

โ€œUnchained Melody makes me want to live out Swayze fantasiesโ€: Gary Jarmanโ€™s honest playlist | music

๐Ÿš€ Explore this awesome post from Culture | The Guardian ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: Music,Culture,Pop and rock,Cribs ๐Ÿ’ก **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: The first song I fell in love withYou're just one of the flying pegs - at least according to my mother [my twin brother and bandmate] Ryan and I were singing along to the Christmas song Top of the Pops with her. We now use it as our live song and it makes my mom very emotional.First song I bought"Somewhere in My Heart" was written by Aztec Camera, from Boots in Wakefield in 1988, after hearing it at a disco…
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Model Chapel Rowan helped me get rid of dead-end relationships | Chapel Rowan

Model Chapel Rowan helped me get rid of dead-end relationships | Chapel Rowan

๐Ÿ’ฅ Check out this must-read post from Culture | The Guardian ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: Chappell Roan,Culture,Music,Pop and rock ๐Ÿ“Œ **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: 'Sโ€œAddie,โ€ I say. โ€œI'll call our daughter Sadie. Or I like Leo for a boy. I was on the phone for two and a half hours, talking about our hypothetical children to a man who flat out said he didn't want a relationship. At the same time, he said things like: "I told my mom about you. She wants to meet you." When he makes those comments, I can't help but dream โ€” to quote a certain song…
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TV Tonight: A twisty drama about a serial killer in Scotland | TV and radio

TV Tonight: A twisty drama about a serial killer in Scotland | TV and radio

โœจ Check out this trending post from Culture | The Guardian ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: Television & radio ๐Ÿ’ก **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: Darkness9pm on ITV1โ€œThere's really an evil monster over there.โ€ A chilling crime drama about a serial killer using twisted techniques in the Scottish wilderness. Laura Donnelly (Outlander, The Fall) stars as Monica Kennedy, who discovers the body of a young man in the countryside - and realizes that his older brother disappeared years before. By the end of this exciting first episode, you'll double-check that the windows are locked... Continues Monday. Holly RichardsonTV Rich List 2026: Who earns the…
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Lucky: Anya Taylor-Joy is absolutely fantastic in this explosive story of cons, revenge and kicking ass | television

Lucky: Anya Taylor-Joy is absolutely fantastic in this explosive story of cons, revenge and kicking ass | television

๐Ÿš€ Explore this insightful post from Culture | The Guardian ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: Television,Television & radio,Anya Taylor-Joy,Culture ๐Ÿ’ก **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: TIts story is about a girl named Lucky. Early in the morning, you wake up - knock, knock, knock, at the door. It's the FBI, and they're after her all over the country because she stole $10 million. Don't make the mistake I did, pretend this new thriller on Apple TV (out Wednesday), starring Anya Taylor-Joy, is a dramatization of Britney Spears' "Lucky." I've tried to find a connection between the two, and as you can see, it's a…
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Yvonne Rainer, Threesome Review: Watching this electrifying performance for free feels like an enormous privilege | Art and design

Yvonne Rainer, Threesome Review: Watching this electrifying performance for free feels like an enormous privilege | Art and design

โœจ Discover this must-read post from Culture | The Guardian ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: Art and design,Dance,Culture,Tate Modern,Stage ๐Ÿ“Œ **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: AAt the back of the Turbine Hall, three people are dancing. If it weren't for the vinyl dance floor and the white line separating her from the crowd, you might not realize it right away. You could be forgiven for thinking they were performing a distinct form of tai chi, or that they had taken a lot of drugs, if this were a different dance floor: one rolling on the floor, another extending his arms out, and a third…
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Pressed for time? 20 wonderful books you can read in one day | imaginary

Pressed for time? 20 wonderful books you can read in one day | imaginary

๐Ÿ’ฅ Read this insightful post from Culture | The Guardian ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: Fiction,Fiction in translation,Books,Culture,Science and nature books ๐Ÿ“Œ **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: Reading in one sitting is usually the domain of the short storyโ€”a form that depends largely on the reader's pure, uninterrupted attention. But there's something special about the intensity of starting and finishing an entire book in a single day. Of all my reading experiences, this was among the most memorable.As a Booker Prize judge last year, faced with 153 books and just over six months to read them, my task was to try to turn each…
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