๐ฅ Read this awesome post from Culture | The Guardian ๐ ๐ **Category**: Television,Cats,David Baddiel,Television & radio,Culture,Documentary,Pets,Animals,Life and style โ
**What Youโll Learn**: DAvid Baddiel has a mission to โfulfill 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 โsneaky, 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,…
๐ Check out this awesome post from Culture | The Guardian ๐ ๐ **Category**: Classical music,Britten Sinfonia,Folk music,Culture,Music,Robert Macfarlane โ
**What Youโll 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…
๐ฅ Read this trending post from Culture | The Guardian ๐ ๐ **Category**: Opera,Classical music,Royal Opera House,Culture,Music,London,UK news,Giacomo Puccini โ
**What Youโll 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,…
โจ Explore this insightful post from Culture | The Guardian ๐ ๐ **Category**: Film,Culture,Nick Frost,Quentin Tarantino,Shaun of the Dead โ
**What Youโll 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…
๐ฅ Discover this trending post from Culture | The Guardian ๐ ๐ **Category**: Art,Japan,British Museum,Art and design,Asia Pacific,Culture,Design,Exhibitions โ
**What Youโll 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…
๐ฅ Check out this insightful post from Culture | The Guardian ๐ ๐ **Category**: Art,Drawing,Robert Crumb,Graphic design,Comics and graphic novels,Culture,Art and design,Books,Exhibitions ๐ **What Youโll 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…
๐ Discover this must-read post from Culture | The Guardian ๐ ๐ **Category**: Games,Culture,PC,PlayStation 5,Xbox,Mountaineering ๐ก **What Youโll 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…
๐ Explore this insightful post from Culture | The Guardian ๐ ๐ **Category**: BTS,Culture,Music,Pop and rock,K-pop ๐ **What Youโll 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: โOur 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…
๐ Check out this trending post from Culture | The Guardian ๐ ๐ **Category**: 28 Days Later,Film,Culture,Horror films,Jimmy Savile ๐ **What Youโll 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…
๐ Check out this must-read post from Culture | The Guardian ๐ ๐ **Category**: Photography,Don McCullin,Art and design,Culture ๐ **What Youโll 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 imagesโwhite monuments photographed on black backgrounds so that they floatโare initially reminiscent of museum postcards, representations that…
