๐ฅ Check out this insightful post from Culture | The Guardian ๐ ๐ **Category**: Television,Television & radio,Culture ๐ **What Youโll Learn**: TThe Muppet Show is back! We need this, don't we? We need them. The TV show ended in 1981, but decades later, memes of Kermit, Miss Piggy, Animal and others are still popular. We give their films Oscars. Their version of โA Christmas Carolโ is a non-negotiable tradition for anyone with a brain. Jim Henson's furry anarchists bring us together like few things do. Like a playful, beady-eyed sponge, I couldn't help but wonder โ why?In an 1810 essay,…
๐ Discover this trending post from Culture | The Guardian ๐ ๐ **Category**: Stage,Theatre,Circus,Mime,Dance,Culture ๐ก **What Youโll Learn**: CProstitutes Moonie and Alex Harvey fell in love 24 years ago when they were training in the circus. They swore they would never work together again. โCircus couples are a pain in the ass,โ Charlotte tells us into the microphone at the beginning of the show, speaking like an old friend.Inevitably, they ended up working together, forming Ockham's Razor Company, presenting warm, insightful and gently cheerful circus shows full of humanity and connection. They stepped back from performing to directing after having…
๐ Check out this insightful post from Culture | The Guardian ๐ ๐ **Category**: Autobiography and memoir,Fatima Bhutto,Pakistan,Books,Culture ๐ **What Youโll Learn**: Had Fatima Bhutto been leftย toย her ownย devices, her devastating forthcoming memoir would have been almost entirely about her relationship with her dog, Coco. โIย know it sounds nuts,โ she laughs. And itโs true that being dog-crazy doesnโt quite track with the public perception of Bhutto as a writer, journalist, activist and member of Pakistanโs most famous political dynasty. But the pandemic had forced something of a creative unravelling and when Bhutto took stock, she found herself only really able to…
โจ Discover this must-read post from Culture | The Guardian ๐ ๐ **Category**: Jazz,Music,Culture โ
**What Youโll Learn**: WWhen the London Jazz Festival launched online-only in 2020, a captivating live-streamed performance by Swiss harpsichordist Julie Campeche's avant-garde jazz ensemble was a stunning highlight, introducing UK audiences to a talented player and composer who was already turning heads in Europe. Campeche captures the sounds of guitar, zither, and East Asian sounds from the ukulele, mixed with vocal loops, classical music, ambient northern jazz, and more. You might call its soundscape magical or otherworldly if it didn't coexist with the political urgency…
โจ Check out this trending post from Culture | The Guardian ๐ ๐ **Category**: Mackenzie Crook,Television,TV comedy,Television & radio,Culture โ
**What Youโll Learn**: IIn BBC Two's new six-part series Little Prophets, Mackenzie Crook plays Gordon, the manager of a huge craft store. Sometimes, it feels as if we're falling through time, because it's like watching Gareth, the role Croke landed in The Office, a quarter of a century later. "He's pedantic and hard-headed," says Crook, "who could be like a grown-up Gareth, with a little more disillusionment, without the country-western accent." โI wrote Gordon as a monster, but in the…
โจ Explore this trending post from Culture | The Guardian ๐ ๐ **Category**: Television & radio,Culture ๐ก **What Youโll Learn**: Phil Collins: The Ages โ In Conversation11.30pm on BBC TwoZoe Ball spends half an hour talking to the musician who she claims was once the "hardest working man" in rock music. Their conversation is a laid-back armchair affair, and includes voice notes from the likes of Robert Plant and Genesis bandmate Mike Rutherford, as well as archival footage from the gig. One big revelation is that Collins now has a 24-hour live-in nurse, after kidney and knee problems led to…
๐ฅ Check out this must-read post from Culture | The Guardian ๐ ๐ **Category**: Games,Culture,Nintendo Switch,Family,Life and style ๐ **What Youโll Learn**: MMy mother gave birth to me. My mother took care of me. My mother taught me. She has unparalleled resilience and forgiving love. She is the glue that holds our family together. But now I'm kicking it Ass In the bowling video game, feel good!In the 2000s, my mom was the best Wii bowler in the world. It was unbeatable. Strike after strike after strike. Dudette in our family's Big Lebowski. So when she said she was coming…
๐ Explore this awesome post from Culture | The Guardian ๐ ๐ **Category**: Fiction,Books,Culture โ
**What Youโll Learn**: My first memory is readingI asked my mom if she could stop reading me a bedtime book and let me read it myself, because I felt like she was going too slowly. The book was either Charlie and the Chocolate Factory or its sequel, Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator, both by Roald Dahl.My favorite book growing upI loved Stuart Little, and all his clever little thingsโhis little canoe, his little sailboat. He had such a relaxed demeanor and was so personable!…
๐ฅ Read this insightful post from Culture | The Guardian ๐ ๐ **Category**: Art,Gaza,Art and design,Culture,Palestine,Israel,Israel-Gaza war ๐ก **What Youโll Learn**: The first is Wissam Iyad Muhammad Abu Stimfs, or Wissam Iyad Muhammad Abu Fusefa, a 14-year-old boy. The last is Sabah Omar Saad Al-Masry, or Sabah Omar Saad Al-Masry, an eight-year-old girl.These two children's names mark the beginning and end of the "Wall of Tears," a massive artwork honoring the 18,457 children killed in Gaza between October 7, 2023 and July 19, 2025. It opened next to the Pine Box Rock Shop bar at 12 Grattan Street in Brooklyn,…
๐ Discover this trending post from Culture | The Guardian ๐ ๐ **Category**: Art and design,Culture,Painting,Photography,Art,Exhibitions โ
**What Youโll Learn**: Exhibition of the weekSamuraiAn enormous and stunning journey into Japan's past, with samurai armor so skillfully crafted that it appears mysteriously alive, as well as magnificent landscapes, evocative art and other arts that delighted the samurai between battles. Read the review here. British Museum, London, from 3 February to 4 Mayalso appearJulia PhillipsUneasy couplings between metal and flesh in sculptures that include casts of the artist's body. Barbican Curve, London, until 19 AprilNew contemporariesKat Anderson, Hadas Auerbach, Deborah Lerner and…
