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Pussies galore! David Baddiel’s Cat Man is perfect TV | television

Pussies galore! David Baddiel’s Cat Man is perfect TV | television

๐Ÿ”ฅ Read this awesome post from Culture | The Guardian ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: Television,Cats,David Baddiel,Television & radio,Culture,Documentary,Pets,Animals,Life and style โœ… **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: DAvid Baddiel has a mission to โ€œfulfill a lifelong dream of spending as much time with cats as possible.โ€ He wants to highlight cats and challenge common misconceptions about them being โ€œsneaky, evil and lazy.โ€ Badiel gets stuck in place. He meets cat influencers like Atticus โ€“ a stunning ragdoll with 96,700 Instagram followers who was asked by Paramount to perform a promotional stunt on a motorcycle for the latest Mission: Impossible film. He practices kitten yoga,…
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Earth and Other Planets Review – Holst Reimagined with Harmonica and Shovel | classical music

Earth and Other Planets Review – Holst Reimagined with Harmonica and Shovel | classical music

๐Ÿš€ Check out this awesome post from Culture | The Guardian ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: Classical music,Britten Sinfonia,Folk music,Culture,Music,Robert Macfarlane โœ… **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: 'IIs it a concert? Is it a party?" mused writer Robert MacFarlane, as he introduced the second half of this quirky, classic-meets-folk performance. By the end, melodionist and harmonica player Will Pound had come to his own conclusions: The encore โ€” an upbeat, gently manic arrangement of Sailor's Hornpipe โ€” would be "a rave," he joked, to polite laughter from the decidedly well-behaved audience.Not that the evening lacked moments that inspired toe-tapping and chin-bobbing. Percussionist Delia Stevens…
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A Night Without Nessun Dorma: What do opera boos say about UK audiences? | Opera

A Night Without Nessun Dorma: What do opera boos say about UK audiences? | Opera

๐Ÿ”ฅ Read this trending post from Culture | The Guardian ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: Opera,Classical music,Royal Opera House,Culture,Music,London,UK news,Giacomo Puccini โœ… **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: HeyPera fans take pride in knowing when and how to make noise. The shouts of "bravo", "brava" and "bravi" have become a popular part of the tradition, with approval seen as evidence of taste.Boos also have a long history, and as one brave soul at the Royal Opera House discovered on Tuesday night, their impact can sometimes seem a little more pronounced.The incident occurred during a performance of Puccini's Turandot when tenor Roberto Alagna, singing Prince Calaf,…
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Nick Frost: ‘Tarantino has pictures of me in the movies’ | film

Nick Frost: ‘Tarantino has pictures of me in the movies’ | film

โœจ Explore this insightful post from Culture | The Guardian ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: Film,Culture,Nick Frost,Quentin Tarantino,Shaun of the Dead โœ… **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: You're big on pies on your Instagram. What is your favorite pastry recipe and, in short, your favorite filling โ€“ both salty and sweet? TopTrampWell, as much as I can make it, I like to keep a small piece of shortcrust pastry or store-bought flaky pastry in the fridge. It's much easier to roll it out and stick it on top. Pies should be double crust. The ones I make most often are small pieces of slow-cooked…
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Samurai Review: Japan’s deadly warrior class appears in all their sexy, devilish glory | art

Samurai Review: Japan’s deadly warrior class appears in all their sexy, devilish glory | art

๐Ÿ’ฅ Discover this trending post from Culture | The Guardian ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: Art,Japan,British Museum,Art and design,Asia Pacific,Culture,Design,Exhibitions โœ… **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: CJapan's pre-modern warrior elite couldn't survive inside suits of armor that leave you in awe and fear in this scintillating journey through their world of blood, strength, and artistic beauty. But it sure looks like it: samurai armor is so vibrant, so electric, with its exposed black face masks, mustaches, metallic plating and full-body cloth. The tops of their helmets include eagles, dragons, goblins, and even a clenched metal fist emerging from a warrior's head. It is so…
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Review by Robert Crumb โ€“ Sexual deviance amounts to an art form | art

Review by Robert Crumb โ€“ Sexual deviance amounts to an art form | art

๐Ÿ”ฅ Check out this insightful post from Culture | The Guardian ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: Art,Drawing,Robert Crumb,Graphic design,Comics and graphic novels,Culture,Art and design,Books,Exhibitions ๐Ÿ“Œ **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: IIt's disconcerting to walk into a gallery and see all your deepest fears and anxieties splattered on the wall, but that's the power of Robert Crumb. For more than half a century, the lean, strange, difficult, and infuriating artist (he's now in his eighties) has been producing underground comics that reveal his deepest neuroses, and reflect your own neuroses back in the process.Now he is being celebrated in a prestigious London gallery, where pages…
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Cairn Review โ€“ Obsession, agony and dread in a climbing game that reaches exhausting new heights | games

Cairn Review โ€“ Obsession, agony and dread in a climbing game that reaches exhausting new heights | games

๐Ÿš€ Discover this must-read post from Culture | The Guardian ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: Games,Culture,PC,PlayStation 5,Xbox,Mountaineering ๐Ÿ’ก **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: MMountaineers and climbers, especially the free soloing type, are the most fascinating lunatics in humanity: single-minded, daring souls who throw themselves into feats of choice that are extremely life-threatening. It's hard not to feel forced and appalled by someone like Alex Honnold. until with Ropes, one wrong move can mean death in mountaineering, a crazy human activity that puts you at the complete mercy of nature. You can't help but wonder what kind of person would willingly choose this: what kind…
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Blood, Butter and Boys in Love: BTS’s Top 20 Songs โ€“ Ranked! | BTS

Blood, Butter and Boys in Love: BTS’s Top 20 Songs โ€“ Ranked! | BTS

๐Ÿš€ Explore this insightful post from Culture | The Guardian ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: BTS,Culture,Music,Pop and rock,K-pop ๐Ÿ“Œ **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: 20. No More Dreams (2013)Early in their career, BTS was marketed as a cross between a Korean idol group and a glam rap group: โ€œOur life is hip-hop,โ€ band member Suga said early on. No More Dream is actually a tougher sound than you might expect: the growls, backing vocals, and double bass sample that drives the intro are great.19. Microcosmos (2019)Here come the Mirror Men... BTS.Clearly written with sparkling squares and thousands of (lucratively branded) lightsticks in mind, Mikrokosmos…
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Why US moviegoers dress up as Jimmy Savile to watch 28 Years Later: Temple of Bones | After 28 days

Why US moviegoers dress up as Jimmy Savile to watch 28 Years Later: Temple of Bones | After 28 days

๐Ÿš€ Check out this trending post from Culture | The Guardian ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: 28 Days Later,Film,Culture,Horror films,Jimmy Savile ๐Ÿ“Œ **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: WWhen Britons think of Jimmy Savile, he is not someone to be admired for his style. But at screenings of 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple, the latest film in the 28 Days Later series released this month, that seems to be what some US moviegoers are thinking.In the film, a murderous cult known as the Jimmys stalk the ruins of post-apocalyptic Britain. Led by Sir Jimmy Crystal, played by Jack O'Connell, the cult is instantly recognizable…
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Review by Don McCullin – Shattered stone heads and severed limbs reflect the horrors he saw in war | Photography

Review by Don McCullin – Shattered stone heads and severed limbs reflect the horrors he saw in war | Photography

๐Ÿš€ Check out this must-read post from Culture | The Guardian ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: Photography,Don McCullin,Art and design,Culture ๐Ÿ“Œ **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: FFew people have witnessed as much horror as Don McCullen. The famous photographer, now 90, has witnessed major conflicts and disasters up close for decades. You can only imagine, from his widely published black and white photographs, how this affected him.McCullin's latest exhibition, Broken Beauty at the Holborn Museum in Bath, begins with four recent photographs of ruined Roman sculptures. These imagesโ€”white monuments photographed on black backgrounds so that they floatโ€”are initially reminiscent of museum postcards, representations that…
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