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‘Time’s not on my side’: Au Pairs singer Leslie Woods on reforming ’80s punk pioneers – without her bandmates | punk

‘Time’s not on my side’: Au Pairs singer Leslie Woods on reforming ’80s punk pioneers – without her bandmates | punk

πŸš€ Read this must-read post from Culture | The Guardian πŸ“– πŸ“‚ Category: Punk,Music,Pop and rock,Culture πŸ“Œ Main takeaway: AAt the height of her music career in the early 1980s, Leslie Woods was accustomed to dealing with angry men. As the singer and guitarist of Au Pairs, a four-piece Birmingham post-punk band, she recalls that β€œmen were only aggressive because you were a woman on stage”. At one show, the band was on the bill with UB40 and Angelic Upstarts, only the latter did not attend. β€œSo the crowd, 95% of whom were skinheads, were mobbing us and throwing anything…
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Emily in Paris Season 5 Review – Minnie Driver is exactly what this masterpiece needs | Emily in Paris

Emily in Paris Season 5 Review – Minnie Driver is exactly what this masterpiece needs | Emily in Paris

πŸ”₯ Check out this awesome post from Culture | The Guardian πŸ“– πŸ“‚ Category: Emily in Paris,Television,Television & radio,Culture,Lily Collins πŸ’‘ Main takeaway: 'TUnleash your mind and jump!” So says exotic London man Alfie (Lucien Laviscount) to Mindy (Ashley Park), his ex-girlfriend Emily's best friend, as they flirt in a lively dance scene. This could of course serve as an instruction for Emily in Paris Season 5 viewers as well. She was once mocked for her Anglophile tendencies and superficial commitment French culturethe tender drama about an American in Paris directed by Lily Collins has become - over the past…
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Fallout Season 2 Review – This post-apocalyptic thriller is very funny | television

Fallout Season 2 Review – This post-apocalyptic thriller is very funny | television

πŸ”₯ Check out this awesome post from Culture | The Guardian πŸ“– πŸ“‚ Category: Television,Television & radio,Culture,Science fiction TV,Games,Fallout πŸ’‘ Key idea: TThe West doesn't get any more brutal than it did in Fallout. The series takes place 200 years after a post-nuclear apocalypse, with mostly human beings eking out an existence in a doomed California wasteland filled with sand dunes, outlaw gangs, and mutant monsters. Resources are scarce. Life is cruel. Death is a constant. That should be terrifying. Instead, it's often hilarious.Its wicked sense of humor elevated the first season of the well-received Prime Video installment and spared…
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The best theatre, comedy and dance of 2025 | Theatre

The best theatre, comedy and dance of 2025 | Theatre

✨ Explore this must-read post from Culture | The Guardian πŸ“– πŸ“‚ Category: Theatre,Stage,Culture,Comedy,Comedy,Dance,Musicals,Ballet,West End,Cabaret,Royal Ballet,Nederlands Dans Theater,Crystal Pite,Nico Muhly,Trisha Brown,Cathy Marston,Southbank Centre,Flamenco,Akram Khan,Catherine Cohen,Adam Riches,John Kearns,Tim Key,Jamie Lloyd,Tom Hiddleston,Hayley Atwell,Almeida theatre,Donmar Warehouse,Royal Shakespeare Company,Chichester Festival theatre πŸ“Œ Main takeaway: Theatre10. The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold FryStaging a bestselling book that has already been adapted into a film starring bona fide national treasures (Jim Broadbent and Penelope Wilton) might have been daunting. But, in Chichester, Katy Rudd’s musical of a man’s Bunyanesque journey to visit a dying woman met that challenge with lo-fi eccentricity and folksy songs with a foot-stomping…
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TV Tonight: Chris Hoy talks about his cancer diagnosis | television

TV Tonight: Chris Hoy talks about his cancer diagnosis | television

πŸ”₯ Explore this insightful post from Culture | The Guardian πŸ“– πŸ“‚ Category: Television,Television & radio,Culture,Cancer,Health πŸ“Œ Key idea: Sir Chris Hoy: Cancer, Courage and Me9pm, BBC OneThis inspiring film follows Chris Hoy as he formulates a constructive and defiant response to his terminal cancer diagnosis. GLASGOW: The Tour de Four is a bike ride that smashed the Β£1m fundraising target for charity, proving that a medical diagnosis doesn't have to be the end all. Famous friends, including Andy Murray and Jason Kenney, are on hand to help. Phil HarrisonBBC Sports Personality of 20257pm, BBC OneMediaCity's annual sporting extravaganza is…
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TV tonight: Mary Berry’s best Christmas tips ever | television

TV tonight: Mary Berry’s best Christmas tips ever | television

πŸ’₯ Explore this trending post from Culture | The Guardian πŸ“– πŸ“‚ Category: Television,Television & radio,Culture πŸ’‘ Here’s what you’ll learn: A Mary Berry Christmas9pm, BBC One Mary Berry celebrated her 90th birthday this year, but she showed no sign of slowing down in the kitchen this Christmas. Pigs in cassoulet blankets, cherry-lemon melfe, and steamed pear-ginger pudding are all on her menu, and she's also joined by Alison Steadman, Harry Aikins Arrietty and Zoe Ball. Peri also needs to pick out a Christmas tree - so she heads off to Windsor Great Park. Holly RichardsonHunting party9pm, U&AlibiAnother day, another…
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A 61-year-old pregnant or a 3-year-old mother: Why do movies like to cast actors who don’t age? | film

A 61-year-old pregnant or a 3-year-old mother: Why do movies like to cast actors who don’t age? | film

πŸ’₯ Check out this trending post from Culture | The Guardian πŸ“– πŸ“‚ Category: Film,Culture,Helen Mirren,Kate Winslet,Timothy Spall,Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy,Childbirth πŸ“Œ Main takeaway: TIn order to enjoy Kate Winslet's new Christmas movie, Goodbye June, you need to be able to do a few things. First, if you've ever experienced any form of bereavement, you may have to take it slowly, as the film is explicitly about the death of a parent. But the other thing you need to do is not to Google the age of any of the actors.And this is for good reason. Dame Helen…
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The Knowing Reader: Prophecy Review – Life Becomes a Game in One-Note Korean Science Fiction | film

The Knowing Reader: Prophecy Review – Life Becomes a Game in One-Note Korean Science Fiction | film

✨ Discover this must-read post from Culture | The Guardian πŸ“– πŸ“‚ Category: Film,Science fiction and fantasy films,Games,K-pop,KPop Demon Hunters,South Korea,Asia Pacific,Culture,Music,Pop and rock,World news πŸ“Œ Here’s what you’ll learn: SStarring the actor (Ahn Hyo-seop) who voiced the bad guy in the main KPop boy band Demon Hunters, and one of the singers (Kim Ji-soo, aka Jisoo) from the real-life girl group Blackpink, this Korean sci-fi fantasy film seems very skewed towards youth in all respects. On the surface, it seems to be about a man named Kim Duk-ja (Ahn) who finds the web novel he's been pursuing for years…
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The magical life of Toni Basil: how she taught Elvis, enchanted Bowie – and had a smash hit with β€˜Mickey’ | Life and style

The magical life of Toni Basil: how she taught Elvis, enchanted Bowie – and had a smash hit with β€˜Mickey’ | Life and style

πŸš€ Read this awesome post from Culture | The Guardian πŸ“– πŸ“‚ Category: Life and style,Dance,David Bowie,Music,Culture,Bette Midler,Elvis Presley πŸ’‘ Main takeaway: If your knowledge of Toni Basil begins and ends with her cheerleader-chanting smash hit Mickey, that’s just the tip of a very deep iceberg. By the time Mickey topped the US charts 43 years ago this week, in 1982, Basil had already spent four decades in the entertainment industry. The deeper you go, the more places you realise she was. When Elvis Presley sings β€œSee the girl with the red dress on” in his 1964 movie Viva Las…
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New details emerge about how the bodies of Rob and Michelle Singer Rayner were found film

New details emerge about how the bodies of Rob and Michelle Singer Rayner were found film

✨ Check out this trending post from Culture | The Guardian πŸ“– πŸ“‚ Category: Film,Rob Reiner,Culture,US news,World news πŸ’‘ Here’s what you’ll learn: New details have emerged about the deaths of film director Rob Reiner and photographer Michelle Singer Reiner, whose bodies were discovered in their Brentwood, La., home on Sunday.A New York Times report, citing a β€œclose family person” who remained anonymous, says a massage therapist who arrived for an appointment first raised the alarm after being unable to make it to an appointment on Sunday. The therapist called their daughter, Romy Rayner, who lived nearby, who entered the…
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