π₯ Check out this awesome post from Culture | The Guardian π π Category: Architecture,Film,Milton Keynes,UK news,Culture,Art and design,Buildings at risk,Heritage π‘ Hereβs what youβll learn: Forty years ago this month, British cinema was changed forever with the opening of The Point in Milton Keynes, the first American-style multiplex cinema in the UK. Looming over Midsummer Boulevard, the Point Hotel's mirrored glass ziggurat and red pyramid frame boldly combine Mayan and Egyptian motifs in a high-tech, futuristic temple of pleasure. In addition to 10 screens (which opened for Back to the Future, The Goonies, and My Beautiful Laundrette routines), there…
β¨ Discover this insightful post from Culture | The Guardian π π Category: Panto season,Theatre,Stage,Culture,Theatre Royal Stratford East π Main takeaway: eLon Musk as a pantomime villain? This is the scene with which we are all familiar. But a panto villain like Elon Musk? This is perhaps the first of its kind in Vicky Stone and Tondray Monivu's Christmas show, which doesn't stop at satirical asides - nor, I'm happy to report, raucous festive fun. Musk is shown scaring our three heroes when they hijack a SpaceX rocket to rescue Gary the Goose from interstellar captivity (for some reason). Previously…
π₯ Read this must-read post from Culture | The Guardian π π Category: Television,Culture,Television & radio π Main takeaway: Mortimer and Whitehouse:He went fishing9pm on BBC Two βI dreamed of you,β Paul Whitehouse told Bob Mortimer. "We were getting married and you had a thick head of hair. Which is more likely?" This buddy-buddy fishing series never fails to bring smiles. But as well as joking around as they try to catch Bob's first salmon on the fly in the Scottish Highlands this week, the pair have a more serious moment when they talk health and Paul's recent skin biopsy.…
β¨ Check out this must-read post from Culture | The Guardian π π Category: Wolf Alice,Culture,Music,Indie,Pop and rock β
Key idea: 'IIf I want to wear my sparkly lingerie, I will! Ellie Roussel laughs into the microphone as she struts through The Sofa, a stylish '70s series about making guilt-free decisions and watching "reruns on TV" without judgment. Tonight, there's no sign of couch-induced slumber, as the slinky singer writhes around the stage in a skin-tight black dress with red hearts strategically zigzag across her torso. She's long ago ditched her shaggy blonde locks for something closer to PJ Harvey…
π Read this insightful post from Culture | The Guardian π π Category: Comedy,TV comedy,Culture,Television,Television & radio,Stage π Main takeaway: Judi Love was 17 when she was kidnapped, though she adds a couple of years on when reliving it on stage. It was only the anecdoteβs second to-audience outing when I watched her recite it, peppered with punchlines, at a late-October work-in-progress gig. The bones of her new show β All About the Love, embarking on a 23-date tour next year β are very much still evolving, but this Wednesday night in Bedford is a sell out, such is the…
π₯ Check out this insightful post from Culture | The Guardian π π Category: Jacob Collier,Music,Culture π‘ Main takeaway: The first song I fell in love withMany songs shocked me as a child and were windows that opened up new worlds. But the first novel I really loved was Did I Hear You Say You Love Me, by Stevie Wonder, which I distinctly remember from when I was about two years old.First song I boughtI bought Take 6's single on iTunes when I was 13. It is a six-part a cappella, gospel, and jazz suite, and it absolutely blew my…
β¨ Explore this insightful post from The New Yorker π π Category: Culture / On and Off the Avenue,Culture / Listening Booth π Key idea: It's easy to think of music as ephemeral and essentially free, rather than something you can pick up, acquire and give to your nearest and dearest. However, music is a brave and intimate gift. For decades, they could have been lovers; Virtually β they released carefully compiled mixtapes to communicate emotions that would have been impossible to express otherwise. Music is a useful, even sacred, way to communicate with another consciousness. In that spirit, I've…
π₯ Explore this insightful post from The New Yorker π π Category: Culture / The Weekend Essay π‘ Key idea: My cat, Harriet, was lying on the TV console when I entered the living room. It flashed at me slowly. Cats blinking at you is supposed to be a sign of affection. I blinked again."Look at you on..."I'm tracking. What are you sitting on? treasury? shelf? It takes me about five seconds to remember the word.βConsole,β I finally say.I feel embarrassed. I'm talking to my cat! But more importantly, I couldn't remember the word "console".This has been happening for a…
π₯ Explore this must-read post from The New Yorker π π Category: Culture / Criticβs Notebook π‘ Key idea: These days, CK occupies a strange place in culture. He's on the hook for cancellation, joined by the likes of Chris Brown and Andrew Cuomo. CK isn't too canceled to perform several sold-out shows at Beacon, but it's canceled enough that, if you manage to snag a ticket, you might not want to show it off to your co-workers. It's been canceled enough that, if the show was one of his strongest routines in years, you could write about it, but…
π₯ Discover this insightful post from Culture Latest π π Category: The Big Story,Culture,Culture / Digital Culture,Shots Fired π Key idea: Casarda wears an acid-washed sand shirt and tartan trousers β βPost-apocalyptic cowboy meets his dad,β Gun Bunny chimes in. A 51-year-old white, cis man whose love of subcultures extends to hackerism and industrial music and a career as a minister in the Satanic Temple, Cassarda eschews the title of "boss." On the contrary, he says he has a βproblem with authorityβ and βflirtsβ with the idea of ββanarchy. But there's no doubt that he's largely responsible for building this…
