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Canada will join the Eurovision Song Contest starting in 2027 | Eurovision

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💥 Explore this insightful post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Eurovision,Canada,Americas,Europe,World news,Television & radio,Music,Culture 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: Organizers announced that Canada will join the Eurovision Song Contest in 2027, becoming the first new entrant since Australia in 2015.Participation is not limited to geographical countries in Europe, but is open to all members of the European Broadcasting Union (EBU), which Canada joined last week. Australia Affiliate Member.The European Broadcasting Union and Canadian public broadcaster CBC announced Wednesday that Canada will send an act to the 2027 competition, which will be held in Bulgaria in May. The announcement…

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Ai Weiwei: Up button! Review – Skeletal chandeliers, a real temple – and lots of silly Lego toys | art

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✨ Explore this must-read post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Art,Art and design,Culture,Sculpture,Ai Weiwei 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: HThe story has been repeated throughout Ai Weiwei's massive monumental sculpture exhibition in Manchester. Flags of long-lost nations hang from the ceiling, bronzes plundered by dead empires have been recast and reclaimed, and crumbling ancient ruins have been rebuilt. Everywhere you look here, you will find death, exploitation, greed and suffering throughout human history, brought to life and painfully displayed. The first thing you see is a black glass chandelier made of skeletons – The Human Comedy – and…

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Victor Willis, leader of the Village People, dies at the age of 74

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✨ Discover this awesome post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Village People,Music,Culture,Disco 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: Victor Willis, lead singer of the band Village People, has died at the age of 74. The group shared the news in a statement: “Victor passed away on Monday, June 30, 2026 due to a short but aggressive illness,” they said. "Privacy is required."Willis, the writer of what were widely accepted as gay YMCA anthems and a macho man — who also performed in costumes of hyper-masculine stereotypes — refuted the idea that the YMCA was a gay anthem and threatened…

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The Guilty review – Russell Tovey is the lead in a dread-filled cop thriller | stage

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✨ Read this awesome post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Theatre,Stage,Culture,Russell Tovey,Donmar Warehouse,Chloe Moss,Film ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: TDonmar has had mixed results adapting left-wing films like Force Majeure and The Fear of 13. But this production, based on the 2018 Danish film Den Skyldige (by Gustav Müller and Emil Nygaard Albertsen), is a fantastical theatrical experience, part crime thriller, part ghost story.At 70 minutes, it's shorter than the film, but arguably more devastating, with the kind of suspense that fills you with dread and leaves you palpitating. As a critic who takes copious notes, I walked…

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Duke of York’s Theater renamed after Tom Stoppard | stage

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🔥 Discover this awesome post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Theatre,West End,London,Stage,Culture,UK news,Tom Stoppard,Sonia Friedman 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: The Duke of York Theater in the West End is set to become the Tom Stoppard Theater in tribute to the playwright who died in November.The theater is currently showing Carrie Cracknell's revival of Stoppard's 1993 masterpiece Arcadia and the same play was produced there in 2009. The playwright's wife, Sabrina Stoppard, said: "Tom was in his element whenever he had a play in the West End, so I'm thrilled that this theater will be named after him.…

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“Laughing, mischievous and extremely generous”: a tribute to Penelope Keith | stage

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🔥 Discover this insightful post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Theatre,Stage,Culture,Comedy,Comedy,Michelle Terry,Theatre Royal Bath,Noel Coward,As You Like It,Television,Television & radio 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: Michelle Terry:'Enormous smile and disarming flashActor and artistic director At Shakespeare's GlobeMy first professional job was with Penelope Keith in the Theater Royal Bath's 2004 production of Blithe Spirit. Her reputation preceded her, and I was nervous, but I was immediately greeted by her enormous smile and that eerie twinkle in her eyes that never stopped flashing.We did this production together for a year, taking it from Bath to a national tour, then…

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An Aztec-tinged makeover topped with a curly-cut crown: inside the glittering £1.3bn Olympia reboot | Build

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🔥 Discover this insightful post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Architecture,Art and design,Culture 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: TThe money spent to redevelop London's Olympia Exhibition Center is a set of stairs and escalators that rise upward, Aztec temple style, into a soaring atrium nestled between the massive barrel vaults of the original exhibition halls. In a modern homage to its historic predecessors, the atrium is also crowned by a fan-like, curly glass vault, its paper folds suggesting shimmering, dazzling modernity, and a cubic zirconia crown set among heritage-cut diamonds.Looming behind the Crown are what look like a…

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Shrinking on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown: How Horror Movies Came to Therapists | film

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✨ Check out this insightful post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Film,Culture,Mental health,Psychiatry,Psychology,Television,Television & radio,Podcasts,Rose Byrne,Counselling and therapy ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: TThere is an old adage that “every wizard needs a therapist.” Even when therapy was still in its infancy, Sigmund Freud said that all psychoanalysts should "subject" themselves to analysis. Modern cinema has been keenly aware of this painful cycle that cannot be broken. In the likes of If I Had Legs to Kick You, Mary Bronstein's hallucinatory Rose Byrne in which she plays a therapist and a struggling mother caught in a downward spiral,…

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Nirvanna the Band the Show the Movie Review – Two goofballs looking for a concert look back over the years | film

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💥 Check out this insightful post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Film,Comedy films,Music,Canada,Toronto,Science fiction and fantasy films,Television,Americas,Culture,Comedy,Television & radio,World news 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: WWith its sheer silliness and unexpectedly brilliant visual effects, this stunningly satirical thriller from Canadian comedian and director Matt Johnson will hook you in. But if, like me, you're coming to this from outside the existing fanbase of his web and TV comedy series Nirvanna the Band the Show, you'll need some time to catch up and acclimate to the gags and lo-fi klutz aesthetic. (Although, as I said, the downbeat indie vibe…

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Worst Neighbor Ever Review – This shocking look at real-life deaths feels like exploitation | TV and radio

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🚀 Check out this must-read post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Television & radio,Culture,Television,Netflix 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: IIn Adventures in the Screen Trade, William Goldman's account of his film writing career in Hollywood, Goldman recalls hearing a true story about a firefighter who returned to rescue a baby he heard crying as he was about to leave a burning building, and who escaped with the infant when everything began to collapse behind him. It was, Goldman says, an unbeatable story of real-life heroism, and of course someone told him he should make a movie about it.…

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