π Check out this awesome post from Culture | The Guardian π π **Category**: Television,Culture,Television & radio,Friends,Frasier π‘ **What Youβll Learn**: WWhen you think of TV characters, you probably think of characters you can actually see. But this is a grossly unfair insult to a small but powerful minority: the characters who remain solidly off-screen. Over the course of decades β mostly in comedies, with a few dramatic exceptions β this invisible workforce has earned more than just its status, and it deserves your support. Here are the top 10 characters whose faces you have never laid eyes on before.10.…
β¨ Discover this trending post from Culture | The Guardian π π **Category**: Baftas 2026,Film,Culture,One Battle After Another,Tim Key,ICE (US Immigration and Customs Enforcement),US news,Awards and prizes,Leonardo DiCaprio,Stage,World news π‘ **What Youβll Learn**: TThe list of BAFTA nominations highlights the enormous awards season love felt for Ryan Coogler's Sinners, and its subversive take on the black experience in America β although it doesn't make history in quite the same way as the Oscars, where it received 13 BAFTA nominations, one behind league leader Paul Thomas Anderson's One Battle After Another with 14 nominations.The awards season emergence of Anderson's anti-fascist epic,…
π₯ Read this awesome post from Culture | The Guardian π π **Category**: American Psycho,Bret Easton Ellis,American Psycho,Theatre,Almeida theatre,Stage,Books,Culture,Andrew Tate,Men's health π‘ **What Youβll Learn**: I have just witnessed a murder. Spattered against the white walls of the Almeida theatre are several thin streaks of blood. Underneath them a particularly gruesome-looking hand axe rests on a table. And on the other side of the room, a clue to who the perpetrator might be. Discarded next to someoneβs laptop is a business card β bone-coloured, raised black lettering β bearing a familiar name: Patrick Bateman.Him again.Itβs 35 years since Bret Easton…
π₯ Explore this awesome post from Culture | The Guardian π π **Category**: Music,Classical music,Culture π **What Youβll Learn**: forBarbara Strozzi was a true revolutionary of the 17th century. She grew up among Venetian intellectuals, perhaps the natural daughter of the poet and librettist Giulio Strozzi, and participated in debates from the age of fifteen. None of her contemporaries had ever recorded 120 published works for solo voice. Despite remaining single, she has been able to support four children with the income she earns from her music alone. The quality of its production is matched only by Monteverde.Artwork by Virtuosissima…
π₯ Discover this must-read post from Culture | The Guardian π π **Category**: Television & radio,Culture,TV streaming β
**What Youβll Learn**: Choose the weekPuppet showThe Muppet Show is a nostalgia hit of the highest order: the parents of the target audience for this one revival will likely be more excited about it than the kids of 2026. So there's a fine balance to be struck and the question of who exactly it's aimed at isn't resolved. However, the gang's chaotic energy must transcend generational barriers. There's boiling beef between Miss Piggy and guest Sabrina Carpenter, cameos from Seth Rogen and…
π₯ Check out this insightful post from Culture | The Guardian π π **Category**: Health, mind and body books,Psychology,Books,Culture,Middle age,Ageing,Society β
**What Youβll Learn**: II'm proud of how mild my midlife crisis is. While that clichΓ© includes buying a Porsche or a torrid affair with a colleague, I mainly fell back on the geeky preoccupations of my youth, like founding poetry clubs and playing niche racquet sports. However, on the cusp of turning 50, and having been beaten by my 11-year-old son at Scrabble, I'm thrilled to have found a book that addresses my young struggle: an elegant discourse of…
π₯ Discover this must-read post from Culture | The Guardian π π **Category**: Music,Indie,Culture π **What Youβll Learn**: YUmi Zuma splits from Dream Pop. After a decade together, the New Zealand four-piece have developed a sound that's light, rich and a bit wistful - but now they want a change. βEverything is more extreme, more gritty,β guitarist Charlie Ryder said of fifth record βNo Love Lost to Kindness,β which was written during the bandβs βmost frictionless creative periodβ to date. While it's true that their latest singles are faster, louder and more distorted, these bright, beautiful tracks will only rock…
π₯ Read this trending post from Culture | The Guardian π π **Category**: Melania,Australia news,Film π **What Youβll Learn**: IIt's a Friday afternoon at Hoyts on Sydney's northern beaches, and the atmosphere is terrible. I'm here to watch Amazon's $75 million "documentary" about Melania Trump, which has already been denounced as a flop before its release.When I arrived, I panicked for a moment because I got the time wrong. There are no posters of Melania anywhere, and the film is being shown in the lower back corner of the large movie theater, like the remains of an awkward table at…
π₯ Discover this awesome post from Culture | The Guardian π π **Category**: Dance,Stage,Culture,Clowns,Royal Ballet,Ballet β
**What Youβll Learn**: MArcelino Sampi hanging upside down from a scaffold tower. βIt's scary,β he told me. Nevertheless, he staggers, faints, balances his tangled limbs around the narrow bars, and reaches for an imagined star-filled sky (it is actually the soaring ceiling of the Royal Ballet's training studio in Covent Garden). This is the iconic opening of Pierrot Lunaire's ballet, in which a childlike clown is startled by the sight of the moon.Eccentric and challenging... Bob Powell (left) and Glen Tetley perform in the…
β¨ Read this insightful post from Culture | The Guardian π π **Category**: SΜ£oΜ£pΓ©Μ£ DΓrΓ¬sΓΊ,Culture,Film,Nigeria,Cannes film festival β
**What Youβll Learn**: WWhen αΉ’α»pαΊΉΜ DΓ¬rΓsΓΉ gets animated during conversation, his speaking voice β usually a kind of polished inner-city London accent β ββdances with a smooth Nigerian accent. As it happened, his shoulders relaxed, his eyes smiled, and he was completely at ease. If it is true that we become the clearest version of ourselves when we are at our best, then it is clear that the core of Deris' character is a Nigerian man.The opportunity to strengthen his Nigerian identity…
