π Check out this awesome post from Culture | The Guardian π π Category: Culture,Art and design,Japan,Craft,Art π Hereβs what youβll learn: AIn response to pessimistic speculation about AI dominating human creativity, it is momentarily comforting to count the things that AI cannot do. She cannot throw pot, blow glass, strike metal, weave bamboo, or turn wood. And perhaps, when it assumes absolute control over human consciousness and mass production machines, it will be able to do so. But today, throwing a bowl and weighing its weight with your hand, or carving a tray and determining its size by eye,…
β¨ Check out this insightful post from Culture | The Guardian π π Category: Chrissie Hynde,Music,Pop and rock,Culture,Punk,Friends,John Lydon,Sex Pistols,Morrissey π Key idea: I wonder if you've seen [music-filled 1996 comedy drama] film Blessing my heart Did this affect your decision to record a duet album? Jenny MarieI haven't seen the film - Duets Special came about after a conversation with Rufus Wainwright's husband when I rashly suggested doing an album with Rufus. Rufus wanted to do "Always On My Mind," and I looked at the list of nine other songs I'd sent him and thought: Why don't I ask…
π₯ Read this insightful post from Culture | The Guardian π π Category: Barbican,Culture,London Symphony Orchestra,Royal Shakespeare Company,Theatre,Music,London,UK news π‘ Main takeaway: The Barbican Hotel will close its doors for 12 months from June 2028 as it undergoes a multi-million pound refurbishment which its leaders say will secure its future.Arts organization Beech Street's cinemas will remain open, but the theatre, music venue, conservatory and visual arts galleries are set to close as an overhaul of the 43-year-old building begins in the run-up to its 50th anniversary in 2032.The main Barbican site will close its doors in June 2028 and reopen…
β¨ Check out this insightful post from Culture | The Guardian π π Category: Film,Drama films,Family films,Kate Winslet,Helen Mirren,Andrea Riseborough,Toni Collette,Johnny Flynn,Timothy Spall,Stephen Merchant,Culture,Music π‘ Main takeaway: yourEight Winslet's directorial debut is a family film written by her son, Joe Anders; It's a well-intentioned, star-studded film, like a two-hour John Lewis Christmas TV ad without the tagline at the end. There are one or two nice lines and intense moments, but they are bathed in a deceptive soup of emotion; Ultimately, I couldn't get past the almost cartoonish characterization of Richard Curtis and the strange, completely unearthly personality of the…
π₯ Check out this must-read post from Culture | The Guardian π π Category: South Park,Television,Animation on TV,Culture,Television & radio,US television,TV comedy,Comedy π Main takeaway: CAfter its most controversial and highest-rated season in years, South Park had high expectations for the season finale. Given how demanding the production schedule is β showrunners Matt Stone and Trey Parker often don't start writing scripts until the week it airs, working until the eleventh hour to deliver a completed episode (which is how they caused the show to miss a deadline earlier this year) β there was some question as to whether they…
π₯ Explore this insightful post from Culture | The Guardian π π Category: Classical music,Culture,Music π‘ Hereβs what youβll learn: TThe survey of the new releases that my colleagues and I enjoyed most in 2025 differs in one important respect from previous years' lists. This year's top ten does not contain any series. There has been a profound change in record companies' policies regarding how and what they record. It now seems impossible to think of compelling studio recordings of opera in the last century, and even the release of audio-only recordings taken directly from live opera house performances often…
π Check out this insightful post from Culture | The Guardian π π Category: Film,Paul Dano,There Will Be Blood,Quentin Tarantino,The Fabelmans,Culture π Key idea: This unsettling debut narrative from British director James Marsh (The Theory of Everything) is a kind of simple Cape Fear film. Gael GarcΓa Bernal plays a sociopathic outsider who threatens the idyllic life of his long-lost preacher father (William Hurt). In what now seems like a pilot for "There Will Be Blood," Dano is the earnest son who struggles to teach creationism at school, but is defeated by the appearance of his evil half-brother. Variety described…
π₯ Read this must-read post from Culture Latest π π Category: Culture,Culture / Digital Culture,New Age π Main takeaway: When Carly was 15 years old Jade Clements wakes up, and her first thought is to record a Get Ready With Me video to share with her friends on TikTok. βI like to record everything and post it as soon as I get it,β says Clements, who lives in Melbourne, Australia.Like many teens, Clements connects with the world primarily through social media: Snapchat to message her friends, Pinterest for inspiration, and TikTok forβ¦ well, everything. Unlike many teens, she also uses…
π₯ Check out this awesome post from BBC Culture π π Category: π Hereβs what youβll learn: 4. The Hollow Man (1935) - John Dixon CarrWhen it comes to locked room mysteries specifically, few hold as high a profile as The Hollow Man. The novel was specifically referenced in Dead Man's Wake by Benoit Blanc, detective Daniel Craig, and praised by Knives creator Rian Johnson as a "stunning and complex mystery". The film features Carr's regular detective lead, Gideon Fell, who leaves him to solve the murder of Professor Charles Grimaud, who was found shot to death in his office…
π₯ Check out this must-read post from Culture | The Guardian π π Category: Fatboy Slim,Dance music,Music,The Rolling Stones,Culture,UK news π Hereβs what youβll learn: A classic bootleg recording by Fatboy Slim that tests the Rolling Stones' approval (I Can't Get No) has finally been released, with the band giving it their blessing after 25 years.Satisfaction Skank was a familiar track in dancefloors at the turn of the century, with Fatboy Slim merging his 1999 hit The Rockafeller Skank with the Stones' 1965 classic, throwing in Keith Richards' iconic guitar take on the "big beat" sound of the late '90s.The…
