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‘It feels so taboo’: Natalie Palamides on playing two halves of a toxic couple and her shocking next offer | comedy

‘It feels so taboo’: Natalie Palamides on playing two halves of a toxic couple and her shocking next offer | comedy

✨ Read this must-read post from Culture | The Guardian πŸ“– πŸ“‚ **Category**: Comedy,Stage,Comedy,Culture,Clowns,Theatre,Soho theatre πŸ’‘ **What You’ll Learn**: SHe's the toast of Off-Broadway now but nothing about the early work of Los Angeles clown Natalie Palamedes screamed mainstream darling. In her debut show Laid, a bizarre take on maternal anxiety that won her Best Newcomer at the Edinburgh Comedy Awards, she gave birth to eggs and then broke them on stage. In her second film, Nate, she cross-dressed as a beer-drinking character for a sexual assault and consent workshop with her astonished audience. Who would have guessed that this…
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Matt Kwasniewski Kelvin, guitarist for the rock band Black Midi, dies at the age of 26 | Black midi

Matt Kwasniewski Kelvin, guitarist for the rock band Black Midi, dies at the age of 26 | Black midi

πŸ”₯ Explore this must-read post from Culture | The Guardian πŸ“– πŸ“‚ **Category**: Black Midi,Music,Pop and rock,Culture,UK news βœ… **What You’ll Learn**: Matt Kwasniewski Kelvin, the guitarist who was a member of the famous British experimental rock band Black Midi, has died at the age of 26.A statement from his family said that he died "after a long battle with his mental health. A talented musician and a kind and loving man finally succumbed, despite all his efforts."β€œHe will always be loved. Please take time to reach out to your loved ones so we can stop this from happening to…
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One bizarre expression after another: DiCaprio’s blockbuster moment wins a Golden Globe | Golden Globe 2026

One bizarre expression after another: DiCaprio’s blockbuster moment wins a Golden Globe | Golden Globe 2026

πŸ’₯ Discover this must-read post from Culture | The Guardian πŸ“– πŸ“‚ **Category**: Golden Globes 2026,Leonardo DiCaprio,Golden Globes,Film,Awards and prizes,Culture πŸ’‘ **What You’ll Learn**: TThe fact that no one really knows anything about Leonardo DiCaprio is a well-established fact at this point. In fact, the best joke in Nicky Glaser's monologue at last night's Golden Globes revolved around the fact that DiCaprio reveals so little of himself that the only things you can find to joke about are his younger girlfriends and a mysterious magazine interview he gave in a magazine when he was 17, in which he declared his…
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β€œHer time has come”: Does Mondrian owe his success to a cross-dressing lesbian artist living in Corniche Bay? | Art and design

β€œHer time has come”: Does Mondrian owe his success to a cross-dressing lesbian artist living in Corniche Bay? | Art and design

πŸ”₯ Discover this trending post from Culture | The Guardian πŸ“– πŸ“‚ **Category**: Art and design,Culture,Art,Painting,Piet Mondrian βœ… **What You’ll Learn**: IIn 1972, the great Kunstmuseum in The Hague purchased three paintings by a little-known British artist named Marlowe Moss. The prestigious art gallery was keen to show the enormous influence of Piet Mondrian - the famous Dutch painter famous for his black grids illuminated by deep blues and bright yellows - on humble paintings like Moss.However, if you visit the Kunstmuseum today, you'll find Moss's works placed front and center, while a similar piece by the great Mondrian, who…
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The newly discovered ‘Port Talbot Pompeii’ may have been a Roman center of agriculture | Roman Britain

The newly discovered ‘Port Talbot Pompeii’ may have been a Roman center of agriculture | Roman Britain

πŸš€ Explore this insightful post from Culture | The Guardian πŸ“– πŸ“‚ **Category**: Roman Britain,Archaeology,Heritage,Wales,Swansea,UK news,Culture πŸ’‘ **What You’ll Learn**: Over the past 100 years or so, this distinctive and difficult corner of South Wales has become famous for its steel mills and coal mines. But the discovery of the remains of a large Roman villa in a country park on the outskirts of Port Talbot gives a new and interesting insight into life here centuries before the advent of heavy industry.Found beneath the surface of Margam Country Park and close to the M4 motorway, the presence of the villa…
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The British Library acquires the archive of rural life by writer and essayist Ronald Blyth books

The British Library acquires the archive of rural life by writer and essayist Ronald Blyth books

πŸ’₯ Read this must-read post from Culture | The Guardian πŸ“– πŸ“‚ **Category**: Books,British Library,Rural affairs,Suffolk,Essex,UK news,Culture,Heritage πŸ’‘ **What You’ll Learn**: One hundred years of unique literary rural life will be made available to readers and researchers after the British Library acquired the Ronald Blyth archive.The author of Akenfield, an international bestseller about a Suffolk village in the midst of the agricultural and social revolution at the end of the 1960s, lived and wrote in East Anglia until his death in 2023, aged 100.As a former librarian who remained stationary in the pre-computer era, Blythe's papers were found to be…
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Truckin’ on: The 10 Best Bob Weir Recordings from the Grateful Dead | music

Truckin’ on: The 10 Best Bob Weir Recordings from the Grateful Dead | music

πŸ”₯ Read this trending post from Culture | The Guardian πŸ“– πŸ“‚ **Category**: Music,Grateful Dead,Culture,Pop and rock πŸ’‘ **What You’ll Learn**: The Grateful Dead - The Faster We Go, The Rounder We Get / The Other (1968)The Dead's love of the road is evident in this clip from That's It for the Other One, the four-part opening track of their second LP, Anthem of the Sun. A rare lyric by Bob Weir details the Dead's youngest member being arrested by the cops "for smiling on a cloudy day" β€” a reference to a real-life incident when Weir pelted police with…
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A rare interview with Agatha Christie

A rare interview with Agatha Christie

πŸš€ Explore this insightful post from BBC Culture πŸ“– πŸ“‚ **Category**: πŸ’‘ **What You’ll Learn**: While Christie believed the book could be polished in three months, she said the plays were "better written quickly." At the time of the BBC's report on Christie in 1955, three of her plays were running in London's West End. The Mousetrap had already broken box office records, just three years after its premiere. The play began as a BBC radio drama entitled Three Blind Mice, broadcast in 1947 as part of an evening of programs celebrating Queen Mary's 80th birthday.Writing plays was "more fun…
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The five most exciting fights in the Oscar race

The five most exciting fights in the Oscar race

✨ Discover this insightful post from BBC Culture πŸ“– πŸ“‚ **Category**: πŸ’‘ **What You’ll Learn**: The success of Wagner Moura, Hamnett and Stellan SkarsgΓ₯rd at the Golden Globes has narrowed the Oscars race and set up a number of interesting battles worth watching.Get ready for Jesse Buckley vs. Rose Byrne, and TimothΓ©e Chalamet vs. Wagner Moura, just two of five major Oscar races that should be particularly fun to watch and that the Golden Globes have just helped make clear. Only a few hundred people vote for the Globes and more than 10,000 for the Oscars It shouldn't It stands…
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A Celebration of Care: Why Ferris Bueller’s Day Off is the feel-good movie | Ferris Bueller’s Day Off

A Celebration of Care: Why Ferris Bueller’s Day Off is the feel-good movie | Ferris Bueller’s Day Off

✨ Discover this trending post from Culture | The Guardian πŸ“– πŸ“‚ **Category**: Ferris Bueller's Day Off,Matthew Broderick,John Hughes,Comedy films,Comedy,Film,Culture πŸ’‘ **What You’ll Learn**: IIt's hard to ignore a film's message when the main character is addressing you directly down the barrel of a camera. Granted, the first time I watched the 1986 teen comedy Ferris Bueller's Day Off, I was an impressionable 11-year-old, and the maxim "look people in the eye when they're talking to you" was in constant rotation in my house. So my green eyes met Ferris' brown eyes and I took it all in.Centered around Matthew…
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